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Atari Founder’s Favourite Game Was Kicking Competitor’s Asses
Nolan Bushnell, the co-founder of Atari and…other things, chats with Eurogamer’s Simon Parkin.
Tim Schafer, Nolan Bushnell And Others Tell You What’s In A Game
Every year sees the release of movies about making music, movies about making other culture, of course, and movies about making movies. Movies about making games? Only once in a while, as with Indie Game The Movie.
121 Short Interviews With Video Game Legends
A group of filmmakers have launched a new project called Critical Path that sets out to be the “definitive documentary archive project” for video game culture and history.
40 Years Of Atari All At Once, All For You
40 years ago today, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney got together and founded the company that catapulted the world into the video game era. It was called Syzgy. Or it would have been, but Syzgy wasn’t available, so they called it Atari. The rest is a gigantic, four decade-spanning infographic celebrating the company’s rise from king of the home video game market to mobile game publisher.
Atari’s Founder Also Made Awesome Robots
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.
Make Your Own Version Of Pong, Win $100,000
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.
