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Retro Game Spotlight 050: Pong (1972)

Publisher: Atari Platform: arcade Designer: Al Alcorn

Trivia: The first commercially successful coin-operated video game, Pong was the first game to be developed by the newly formed Atari, and was originally created as a training exercise for engineer Al Alcorn.

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Ted Dabney, Atari co-founder, passes away at 81

Ted Dabney, Atari co-founder, passes away at 81

This past weekend, Samuel “Ted” Dabney, electronics engineer and co-founder of legendary studio Atari, passed away at the age of 81. The sad news was broken by his friend and gaming historian Leonard Herman. (more…)

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Al Alcorn

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Lets start at the beginning of Atari... the one that started it all... Pong!

Lets start at the beginning of Atari... the one that started it all... Pong!

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LE ORIGINI DEI VIDEOGIOCHI ARCADE

LE ORIGINI DEI VIDEOGIOCHI ARCADE

Prima delle console domestiche, le macchine dei videogiochi erano disponibili solo nelle arcade, le sale giochi. In effetti, tutto iniziò quando le dimensioni dei computer, nati ingombrando interi piani di edifici, cominciarono a ridursi notevolmente.

Nell’estate del 1961 la Digital Equipment dona un esemplare del suo ultimo computer, il PDP-l(Programmable Data Processor-I), a una delle più…

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Before Apple: Steve Jobs at Atari | Gaming Historian New viewer? Subscribe! ▻ Gaming Historian provides a history of Steve Jobs time at Atari. Before Steve Jobs changed the world of ... source

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Atari co-founder Ted Dabney passes away

News- Gaming pioneer and #Atari co-founder Ted Dabney passes away at 80 #RIP

Gaming pioneer and Atari co-founder Ted Dabney passed away on Saturday at the age of 80. Historian Leonard Herman, who told Dabney’s story in an article for “Edge” magazine in 2009, announced his death on Facebook.

In 1971, Dabney co-founded Syzygy with Nolan Bushnell where they developed Computer Space, the world’s first commercially available arcade video game. Rather than use an expensive…

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PONG: The Story of Atari, Chuck E. Cheese, and the Beginning of Video Games - as told by Nolan Bushnell