Video: Meet the 91-year-old Father of Video Games

PBS has posted a short documentary about Ralph Baer that will just melt your heart.

Baer, 91, is widely known as "The Father of Video Games." He developed the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home gaming console, and he went on to create tons of toys and games. (I'm in love with the man just for inventing Simon, maybe the greatest electronic game of all time.)

Baer talks about his inventions, but the mood turns poignant when he reveals his wife died in 2006, just days before he was awarded the National Medal of Technology. "All my friends are gone," he notes, adding that if it weren't for his passion for technology, he wouldn't know what to do.

"I'm basically an artist — no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does," Baer says.

The video is only three-and-a-half minutes long, but it packs an emotional punch: