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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.
January – The legal partnership between Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney is formalized as the Syzygy Company. [3] Their name on the cabinet of Computer Space is rendered as “Syzygy Engineering.” September 4 – Ramtek Corporation, one of the first companies involved with coin-operated video games, is founded to produce graphical terminals.
Syzygy, a game for the Dragon 32 home computer, published by Microdeal; Syzygy, a linking word game by Lewis Carroll, published in The Lady magazine; Syzygy, a Great Old One in the game Eldritch Horror (board game), introduced in the expansion Strange Remnants; Syzygy Co., an arcade game engineering company co-founded by Nolan Bushnell; SYZYGY ...
Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and home computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney.Atari was a key player in the formation of the video arcade and video game industry.
Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and video game console and home computer development company which operated between 1972 and 1984. During its years of operation, it developed and produced over 350 arcade, console, and computer games for its own systems, and almost 100 ports of games for home computers such as the Commodore 64.
[7] [23] The Syzygy duo were relieved, though also somewhat disappointed, to find that Galaxy Game was not using an innovative solution Syzygy had missed to build an economically-competitive arcade game. Pitts and Tuck, conversely, felt that Computer Space was a pale imitation of Spacewar!, while Galaxy Game was a superior adaptation of the ...
Samuel Frederick "Ted" Dabney Jr. (May 2, 1937 – May 26, 2018) was an American electrical engineer, and the co-founder, alongside Nolan Bushnell, of Atari, Inc. He is recognized as developing the basics of video circuitry principles that were used for Computer Space and later Pong, one of the first and most successful arcade games.
Bally Midway releases Journey, the first game with digitized sprites. Astron Belt, the first laserdisc video game, is released by Sega. Dragon's Lair, the first video game to use cel-animated video instead of computer-generated graphics was advertised as the first truly 3D video game and as the meeting point of video games and animated films.