Incidentally, Bushnell’s company, Atari, was the first to take a license under my patents in the 70's. The fact that Nolan Bushnell developed PONG after he played a ping-pong game on an Odyssey 1TL200 at a L.A. Magnavox dealership demo in May of 1972 is also well-known. I strongl...
Atari founder Nolan Bushnellcreated Pong, his version of this concept, as an arcade game. A small company at the time, Atari began manufacturing the games in an old roller skating rink, and by 1972 the company had sold more than 8,000 Pong arcade machines. ...
Atari itself has its birth in a game that was created on an oscilloscope and the game hardware was created by removing the oscilloscope parts that were not needed for Pong. The switching power supply stayed.When Jobs and Woz worked on the original arcade version of Atari's "Breakout," it ...