Playing Pong, Hollywood style

Monday, June 9th, 2008

This is Nolan Bushnell, unassuming computer science student of the 1960s. With his corduroy trousers and his delightful stripy sweater, he certainly doesn’t look like typical Hollywood fodder.

But after growing up watching, and then repairing, the old midway arcade machines in the theme parks of his native Utah, this man would quickly go on to found Atari, give the world the long-enduring Pong, and eventually end up heralded as one of Newsweek’s “50 Men Who Changed America”.

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