The history of Atari

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• NI

  @nickl6373 · 9 months ago (edited)

  Nolan is such a cool guy<br>I always love to hear him talk

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• LE

  @lethalwolf7455 · 1 year ago

  He was a smart engineer but a brilliant businessman. Him contracting all 3 companies to make the chips he needed allowed him to create a monopoly, even though it looked like a waste of revenue at first. He was playing chess while his directors were playing checkers

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• ST

  @steve_murch · 1 year ago

  Played PONG in arcades, then Atari console at friends’ house in the 70’s… then taught at an Atari Computer Camp in 1983. Thanks Nolan and Atari team!

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• RE

  @Rexlaninetales · 4 years ago

  I&apos;m 41 years old and I grew up with the Atari 2600. So this video was quite nostalgic for me. Thank you very kindly for bringing back such memorable video gaming moments.

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• WA

  @wallacelang1374 · 3 years ago

  This primary interview with Nolan Bushnell was originally featured on the &quot;Atari Anthology&quot; CD-ROM for the Windows PC. Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney were the co-founders of Atari. They brought in electronics engineers Al Alcorn and Ed Logg to create the earliest Atari arcade games, for they helped create Computer Space, Pong, Breakout and Asteroids.

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• TH

  @ThunderHorsePyro · 2 years ago (edited)

  I consider myself lucky to have grown up in the 1980s and experiencing the maturing of video games from the Atari 2600 to what we have today. It&apos;s been an incredible journey. Many thanks to Nolan Bushnell and all of the other brilliant minds at Atari. And in case anybody asks, like the commercial, I actually did play Atari games yesterday.

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• OC

  @ociemayfield2332 · 4 years ago

  I was right years old when Atari put out the first arcade game called pong which I played in 1972,then four years later Atari came with the Atari 2600 along with several video games,I am proud of playing the Atari game system as a kid during the 1970&apos;s and the 1980&apos;s.

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• TH

  @theunknown4570 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I was there from pong and I am still here with Call of Duty Black Ops 6 next month. I am an old G gamer. Do not discount us we grew up on it

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• ZG

  @zg-it · 2 years ago

  &quot;Video games of the training wheels for computer literacy&quot; -Nolan Bushnell

• KE

  @kevinrickey3925 · 5 years ago (edited)

  I&apos;m a crazy old fart. &nbsp;Playing Video Games is Truly a &quot;gateway&quot; to programming. &nbsp;When I moved to Eugene from Portland in 1979, I was short a math credit at Sheldon High School.. Math was not my favorite subject, but I saw a Math credit in &quot;BASIC Computer Programming&quot;. &nbsp;I said YES to that. &nbsp;I was lost for a week, it made no sense. &nbsp;I&apos;d been building and repairing power amps and equalizer circuits, but I liked the idea of making shit without a soldering iron... Programming.... on a TRS-80 with a mem-expansion unit, cassette drive I/O.. &nbsp;BASIC was good for writing games.. &nbsp;A$=Inkey$ can be wonderful at interpreting keyboard things, but too slow. &nbsp;I heard whispers about &quot;Machine Language&quot;...&quot;X=USR(0)&quot; &nbsp;I asked my teacher: I wanna learn assembly language for the Zilog Z80 cpu, can you help me? &nbsp;No he said... &nbsp;SO I got a Rodnay Zacks book and taught myself to hand assemble machine language for the Z80. &nbsp;Graduated Sheldon with Computer Programming Honors.. &nbsp;My First Comp I owned was an ATARI 400. &nbsp;A 6502 CPU.. &nbsp;SHIT.. &nbsp;Architecture and addressing modes were so foreign, it took me 8 months to get used to effectively using ZERO-PAGE addressing to make that 6502 fly like crazy, then got the ATARI TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUALS for Christmas when I was like 15.. &nbsp;Oh Shit.. &nbsp;Vertical Blank Interrupts, Display Lists, Display list interrupts. &nbsp;Player Missle Graphics. &nbsp;I was in Heaven. &nbsp; Until I was forced to go with IBM, and a JOB and Lotus-123, and Word Perfect. &nbsp; FUCK I gotta learn the INTEL 8088/8086 shit now.... Um... &nbsp;I&apos;m fixing my site... &nbsp;kevinrickey.com... &nbsp;someone trashed my ssl. &nbsp;I&apos;m fixing and bringing up retro code. &nbsp;Love you Bro...

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• NE

  @Neotron2001 · 11 months ago

  @<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE0SLC3CE_0&amp;t=4795">1:19:55</a><br>Elizabeth Shue in an Atari commercial. ❤

• SI

  @simplyme5324 · 1 year ago

  I didn&apos;t know shit about how computers work in detail. I grew up with Windows. My first home computer had a frequency of 1GHz and I thought &quot;A billion Hertz? That is enormous.&quot; I got my first laptop in 7th grade and became an internet addict. Not for social media but for reading. Reading whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. Wikipedia, press articles, etc.<br>I wanted to learn more and put up different Linux distros in a VM in 2012. That was my intro to computing. I still want to understand computing in all its beauty and debt. <br>No way I will ever understand something as complex as my laptop. So I try with smaller systems, a few bit, no error correction, no copying of bits and bytes. Quantum computing is my field now but I am also amazed by retrocomputing. Maybe I will learn Assembler the next year and see how to program really old machines.<br>Thanks for the amazing interview 🙂