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Talking With Nolan Bushnell

Posted by Hemos on from the the-man-with-the-plan dept.

Milktoast writes "Joystick101.org has posted their interview with gaming legend Nolan Bushnell. The arcade guru who founded Atari, invented Pong, and started Chuck E. Cheese talks about the decline of the arcade, education, robotics, and gaming as a narrative. "

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  1. Re:Oh, so he "invented" pong? by bjb · · Score: 3, Flamebait
    Actually, he didn't "invent" pong, that was invented by Willy Higinbotham in 1958, though it is debatable if it can be considered a "video game". Otherwise, credit goes to Ralph Baer at Magnavox for creating the Odyssey 1 pong game.


    Nolan's claim to fame (and importance here) is that he took the concept and put it in a quarter gobbling box that went into pubs and generated revenue.


    And that's all I've got to say about that...

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