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

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!

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

I'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.

This primary interview with Nolan Bushnell was originally featured on the "Atari Anthology" 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.

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'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.

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

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's and the 1980's.

"Video games of the training wheels for computer literacy" -Nolan Bushnell

I didn'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 "A billion Hertz? That is enormous." 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.
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.
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.
Thanks for the amazing interview 🙂

A very smart man for his time and even now! Nolan bush well is not a name brought up much nowdays but it was such a big undertaking that started video games and made it boom. There work environment was free too and they were the kings at the time

12:36 I think Nintendo did a similar thing, the gameplay wasn't like that but they had a game similar to breakout and the paddle was supposed to be a spaceship or something with mario inside

Oh wow. Great to see this here. thanks for posting it. Do you know approximately when this interview was done? seems like the early 2000's, but I'm just guessing.

Nolan Bushnell made out like a fat cat selling Atari.  Perfect timing right before the crash.  I don't know how he isn't a billionaire by now.

I am 41 and i grew up with atari 2600

Thanks Nolan

I'm a crazy old fart.  Playing Video Games is Truly a "gateway" to programming.  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 "BASIC Computer Programming".  I said YES to that.  I was lost for a week, it made no sense.  I'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..  BASIC was good for writing games..  A$=Inkey$ can be wonderful at interpreting keyboard things, but too slow.  I heard whispers about "Machine Language"..."X=USR(0)"  I asked my teacher: I wanna learn assembly language for the Zilog Z80 cpu, can you help me?  No he said...  SO I got a Rodnay Zacks book and taught myself to hand assemble machine language for the Z80.  Graduated Sheldon with Computer Programming Honors..  My First Comp I owned was an ATARI 400.  A 6502 CPU..  SHIT..  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..  Oh Shit..  Vertical Blank Interrupts, Display Lists, Display list interrupts.  Player Missle Graphics.  I was in Heaven.   Until I was forced to go with IBM, and a JOB and Lotus-123, and Word Perfect.   FUCK I gotta learn the INTEL 8088/8086 shit now.... Um...  I'm fixing my site...  kevinrickey.com...  someone trashed my ssl.  I'm fixing and bringing up retro code.  Love you Bro...

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Elizabeth Shue in an Atari commercial. ❤

Great video!!

Thanks for posting this!