In 1981, having left Atari three years previously, Bushnell founded Catalyst Technologies, a venture capital group designed to help invest in technology start-ups. Catalyst in turn went onto fund a company called Androbot, for which Bushnell served as chairman of the board.
In honour of Pong‘s 40th anniversary, publisher Atari is now taking entries for what it calls the “Pong Indie Developer Challenge,” it said today. For a shot at winning $US100,000 and a publishing agreement with Atari, you can dream up your own version of Pong and draw up “at the very least” a design document.
Nolan Bushnell, who founded the original Atari in 1972, has returned to the company masthead as a member of Atari S.A.’s board of directors.