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In 1971, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded a small engineering company, Syzygy Engineering, [21] that designed Computer Space, the world's first commercially available arcade video game, for Nutting Associates. On June 27, 1972, the two incorporated Atari, Inc. and soon hired Al Alcorn as their first design engineer.
Abstract: The Atari design concept sketches are a compilation of drawings created by various employees of Atari, Inc. and later Atari Games Corporation. The bulk of the materials are dated 1973, 1985, and 1987.
Atari's products and design principles span 50 years of gaming, consumer electronics, and digital art. Some of the most influential engineers and creatives in the world credit their time with Atari games for sparking their imaginations.
23 mar 2024 · By 1976, Atari would release over 15 different arcade game designs to feed surging popularity. Powered by public fascination with Atari‘s entertaining and addicting arcade game concepts, coin-operated video games took off as a booming sector.
6 lis 2007 · First created in China about 2000 B.C., Go is a compelling and subtle strategy game. It vies with Parcheesi as the world’s oldest game that still exists in its original form. Go is unique, in that there are literally trillions -- if not an infinite number -- of board combinations.
20 sty 2015 · In 1981, Atari released Centipede—a shoot ‘em up arcade game comprised of pixilated creepy-crawlies—created by Ed Logg and Dona Bailey, one of the first female game designers. To play the game, a player used a trackball controller and a single firing button to shoot at a large centipede as it wound its way down the screen and through a ...
18 lis 2020 · There was once a time when you could only play video games in arcades. For Atari, its innovative game design played a key role in its growth during the 1970s and '80s – from Pong to Asteroids and beyond.
