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Article #1670Re: Founder of Atari?
From: James Hague
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 15:02
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 15:02
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In article <9VA2MFG@lime.in-berlin.de> techno@lime.in-berlin.de (Techno) writes: > >No, no, it was Nolan Bushnell all right. The inventor of the video game, BTW. A little picky here, but Bushnell developed the first coin-op video game; he didn't come up the entire concept. Slug Russell's Space War could probably be called the first video game. And Ralph Baer did some work in the sixties with paddle types of games which could be played on a TV. Bushnell's first two games were a clone of Space War (Computer Space) and Baer's paddle game (Pong). Another poster was trying to remember what games Chris Crawford did for Atari. I can recall Eastern Front, SCRAM, Energy Czar, and Excalibur. He switched from the Atari 8-bit computers to the Macintosh around 1984 and he still works on that machine (Balance of Power, Trust & Betrayal, Guns 'n Butter, etc.). -- James Hague exuhag@exu.ericsson.se
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