Atari Games For PC, Are They Still Fun?
Atari was developed in 1970 by Nolan Bushnell. He designed a coin operated game console which held the Steve Russell’s game named Spacewar.
The game wasn’t a success because it was to complicated to play. Bushnell tried to design a simpler game based on Ping-Pong. And so Pong was born.
Al Alcorn designed Pong. Bushnell tried to sell his design on another coin operated machine. no company wanted to buy his design. So with only $500 to back him up Bushnell and another man named Ted Dabney founded Atari Incorporated, the first video coin operated company.
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