Remember Atari?
Monday July 6, 2009
The arcade game Pong was created by Nolan Bushnell in 1972. Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney started Atari (a term from the Japanese game Go) that same year, becoming one of the first manufacturers of home video game systems. Photographer Kevin Winter: Getty Images
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Nolan Bushnell did NOT create “pong”.
Willie Higginbotham invented this game in the early 60s, at Brookhaven Lab. He first called it “Tennis” but it was commonly referred to as “pong” when I and others played it in the latge 60s, at a small table (with embedded video monitor), at the Brookhaven Center (an after-hours place, on the BNL campus).
The “pong” game was just a very crude version of the technology, placed in the Center “just for fun” (and also to help develop eye-hand coordination!) Long before the Sanders folks saw it, this technology was routinely used for manipulation and 3-D viewing of such things as crystal structures.
The attribution of arcade “pong” to Bushnell is incorrect unless one restricts the word “arcade” to devices commercially sold to those who add a coin slot and invite the public. This ignores the several non-commercial “arcade” versions of “pong” that were at BNL, ADDS, and elsewhere (mostly placed by former members of the BNL Instrumentation Division).
bam@tripodics.com
yea i think the atari game is really gay they have playstations and xbox and all the technology you could want so who would want to remember the atari its a lost cause they dont even sell those games any more if u like atari you are really lame hahah ur gay
yea i think the atari game is realyl gay they have playstations and xbox and all the technology you could want so who would want to remember the atari its a lost cause they dont even sell those games any more if you like atari you are really lame haha your all gay
This last guys sound like he couldn’t remember what he had for lunch yesterday. I think he’s lame and gay.