An American engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Atari, Inc. with Ted Dabney on June 27, 1972, in Sunnyvale, California. After seeing the Magnavox Odyssey demonstrated in May 1972, Bushnell assigned engineer Allan Alcorn to build a table-tennis arcade game at his direction; the result, Pong, released later that year, became the first commercially successful video game and helped establish the video game industry as a viable business.
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Defining ContributionCo-founded Atari, Inc. in 1972 and directed the creation of Pong, the arcade game that made the video game industry commercially viable. 2 Connections
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Co-founder, with Ted Dabney, on June 27, 1972.
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1. Nolan Bushnell (Wikipedia)
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Nolan Kay Bushnell (born February 5, 1943) is an American businessman and electrical engineer.
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Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and home computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney
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