Video games in the 1970s were mainly a novelty item and Nolan Bushnell worked at Lagoon, an amusement park in Utah, during the summer and he was over the arcade games. He saw Spacewar running on a mainframe (a type of computer in the 1960s) at the University of Utah […]
Atari
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So I am a little out of order here talking about Pong, towards the end of the 1970’s gadgets. Yes, Pong came out in 1972. I have my reasons. Atari Was released a version of Pong in 1972. The idea of a Pong was a bit of training exercise and […]
Atari came out with a gaming system earlier in the 1970s, 1972 to be exact. Here is the post about it. They did it again in 1978. Atari 800 Here are the details Announced: 1978 Released: 1979 Price: $995.00 (USD) CPU: MOS 6502, 1.8MHz Ram: 8k Base, 48k Max (huge) […]
In 1972, Atari was formed and by August the first Pong game was completed. But, let’s go back in time to get the full background. Early days In 1966 at the University of Utah, Nolan Bushnell saw something called Spacewar!, he worked with Ted Dabney and they found that they […]