Just an interesting little tidbit I noticed last night while watching G4 last night:
They did a show based around Ralph Baer, the engineer who created the Magnavox Odyssey, and basically fathered the home video game console.
Anyhow, the Odyssey was met with much indifference, so Magnavox toured the country with the machine, trying to get people to buy into the technology.
Long story short, Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari attended one of these shows, and created his own very similar game to a title on Odyssey: Pong.
Bushnell was sued, as Baer kept very close records of who attended the shows. Well, they showed one of the sign in sheets, and there, three lines above Bushnell, was the recognizable signature of one Mr. Bob Barker. Hey, if only he'd have thought of it first, he could've made millions and not had to host some game show for a couple of years...
But I guess all's well that ends well.
I suppose Bob was fascinated by the technology as much as anyone else back then. I grew up in the video game era, so I can't imagine ever being impressed by such a basic machine, but hey, Bob didn't even know Plinko yet :-D