Following Pong, the company continued to experience tremendous success. The result was Pong a simple tennis-like game featuring two parallel bars and a moving dot which ultimately transformed the video game industry. Once Atari was officially founded in 1972, Bushnell and Dabney hired engineer Al Alcorn to design a table-like ping pong game. Believing that he could do better on his own, Bushnell, along with his business partner Ted Dabney, founded Syzygy when they were informed that the name was taken, they changed it to Atari, Inc. Although it was the first commercial video game, Computer Space failed to generate much excitement and fanfare. Computer Space was based on the MIT space game Spacewar!, and Bushnell licensed it to Nutting Associates. After college, Bushnell combined his knowledge of computers, televisions, and coin-op games to make the first commercial video game, Computer Space. Bushnell also worked a part-time job at an amusement park arcade, where he became familiar with coin-op electro-mechanical games. While there, he, like other computer engineering students, played math and simple video games on large and expensive mainframe computers. Bushnell was first exposed to computer games when he attended the University of Utah as a computer graphics student. As a teenager, he repaired television sets while also working at his dad s cement contracting business.
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Subjects Arcades Asteroids (Game) Centipede (Game) Conceptual art Employee handbooks Engineering design Engineering mathematics Focus groups Game design and development Industrial design Interviewing in marketing research Marketing research Motion pictures and video games Pong (Game) Programming Road Runner (Fictitious character) Star Wars (Game) Technical manuals Training manuals Video arcades Video games - Design Video games - History August 2017 ģ Atari Coin-Op Division Corporate Records Video game industry Video games and teenagers Historical Note Nolan Bushnell grew up in a small town near Salt Lake City, Utah. Kee Games Time Warner, Interactive Warner Bros. Controlled Access Terms Personal Names Alcorn, Al Bristow, Steve August 2017 Ģ Atari Coin-Op Division Corporate Records Bushnell, Nolan Cheng, Regan Dabney, Ted Fujihara, Mary Hata, Ken Huang, Barney Keenan, Joe Logg, Ed Hally, Mike Margolin, Jed Opperman, George Takaichi, Pete Van Elderen, Dan Corporate Names Atari Games Corporation Atari, Inc. Evans initially acquired these materials during sealed-bid auctions at an electronics recycling firm in California in Preferred citation for publication: Atari Coin-Op Division corporate records, Brian Sutton- Smith Library and Archives of Play at The Strong Processed by: Primary processing by Project Archivist Dane Flansburgh (February June 2016) with assistance from Mary Ann Dannhauser, Kelli Emler, Melissa Fanton, Tyler Kassten, Julia Novakovic, and Robert Ramos ( ). The records were accessioned by The Strong under Object ID The records were received from Scott Evans in a shipment of 23 pallets. Custodial History: The Atari Coin-Op Division corporate records were acquired by The Strong in June 2014 from Scott Evans.
It is possible that certain formats may be inaccessible or restricted. Conditions Governing Access: At this time, audiovisual and digital files in this collection are limited to on-site researchers only. Though intellectual property rights (including, but not limited to any copyright, trademark, and associated rights therein) have not been transferred, The Strong has permission to make copies in all media for museum, educational, and research purposes.
Repository: at The Strong One Manhattan Square Rochester, New York Administrative Information Conditions Governing Use: This collection is open for research use by staff of The Strong and by users of its library and archives. Abstract: The Atari Coin-Op records comprise 600 linear feet of game design documents, memos, focus group reports, market research reports, marketing materials, arcade cabinet drawings, schematics, artwork, photographs, videos, and publication material. coin-operated games division (primary) ID: Date: (inclusive) (bulk) Extent: 600 linear feet (physical) 18.8 GB (digital) Language: The materials in this collection are primarily in English, although there a few instances of Japanese.
1 Atari Coin-Op Division Corporate Records Finding Aid to the Atari Coin-Op Division Corporate Records, Summary Information Title: Atari Coin-Op Division corporate records Creator: Atari, Inc.
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