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Francois LE COAT
Jun 27, 2012, 1:22:57 PM6/27/12
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Hi,
ATARI is 40 today, 2012 june, 27 !
"
In 1971, Bushnell and partner Ted Dabney managed to turn Spacewar! into
the first mass-produced video arcade game, Computer Space. It wasn’t
particularly successful. Undeterred, they continued their partnership,
Syzygy, by founding Atari, Inc.. (Another company, it turned out, had
first dibs on “Syzygy.”) They filed the incorporation papers on June
27, 1972, occupied 1,700 square feet of office space in Santa Clara,
California, in the heart of Silicon Valley, and got ready to release a
game they called Pong. The rest is videogame history.
"
Source :
<http://techland.time.com/2012/06/27/atari-at-40-catching-up-with-founder-nolan-bushnell/>
--
François LE COAT
Author of Eureka 2.12 (2D Graph Describer, 3D Modeller)
http://eureka.atari.org/
http://fon.gs/atarians/
ATARI is 40 today, 2012 june, 27 !
"
In 1971, Bushnell and partner Ted Dabney managed to turn Spacewar! into
the first mass-produced video arcade game, Computer Space. It wasn’t
particularly successful. Undeterred, they continued their partnership,
Syzygy, by founding Atari, Inc.. (Another company, it turned out, had
first dibs on “Syzygy.”) They filed the incorporation papers on June
27, 1972, occupied 1,700 square feet of office space in Santa Clara,
California, in the heart of Silicon Valley, and got ready to release a
game they called Pong. The rest is videogame history.
"
Source :
<http://techland.time.com/2012/06/27/atari-at-40-catching-up-with-founder-nolan-bushnell/>
--
François LE COAT
Author of Eureka 2.12 (2D Graph Describer, 3D Modeller)
http://eureka.atari.org/
http://fon.gs/atarians/
Clu
Jul 6, 2012, 6:02:37 PM7/6/12
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I bet playing Space War on the university campus was just mind blowing.
:) Anyway the birthday of Atari was featured in the Stars and
Stripes newspaper here in the U.S. Armed Forces. Was really cool seeing
that mentioned.
Doc Clu
:) Anyway the birthday of Atari was featured in the Stars and
Stripes newspaper here in the U.S. Armed Forces. Was really cool seeing
that mentioned.
Doc Clu
Francois LE COAT
Jul 7, 2012, 11:35:13 AM7/7/12
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Hi,
Because ATARI is still co-directed by Nolan Bushnell, and the firm is
now designing games for the smartphones, they made a gift of a hundred
iPod/iPhone/iPad original games for free. That's really cool, indeed !
That's an anniversary for all of us :-)
Clu writes :
Regards,
Because ATARI is still co-directed by Nolan Bushnell, and the firm is
now designing games for the smartphones, they made a gift of a hundred
iPod/iPhone/iPad original games for free. That's really cool, indeed !
That's an anniversary for all of us :-)
Clu writes :
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