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Mr. Dabney, known as Ted, brought arcade video games to the world with Atari, a start-up that he and a partner, Nolan Bushnell, founded in Sunnyvale, Calif., in the early 1970s. I think I was kind of arrogant. Modern evaluations of Bushnells legacy often end up polarized, portraying him either as a legendary tech demigod or a washed-up huckster, with little room in between for the nuanced truth. Atari Co-Founder Ted Dabney Dies At 81 - Kotaku [2] Within his three years of the Corps he took courses on electronics, giving him an interest in the area. "Atari Was Very, Very Hard" Nolan Bushnell on Atari, 50 Years Later The plan was for guests to order their food and drinks using screens at each table, on which they may also play games with each other and watch movie trailers and short videos. Bushnell and Dabney left Ampex toward the start of the '70s, with the intent to work out a pet project of theirs. hide caption. It created the industry, Mr. Alcorn said of the technology Mr. Dabney developed for Pong. The consent submitted will only be used for data processing originating from this website. Bushnell recommended that funds be used in R&D for developing a new, technologically superior console, as he feared rising competition would make the aging tech specs of the VCS obsolete. Continue with Recommended Cookies, FacebookTwitterYouTubeInstagramLinkedInSnapchatPinterestTiktok, Registered Office: Ground Floor, The Rookery, 2 Dyott Street, London, WC1A 1DE, United Kingdom. Otherwise, it did nothing, but Bushnell continued to stoke the robot hype to fever pitch. In 1982, the Catalyst founders rounded out the team with Perry Odak, the former VP of consumer products at Atari. After a showdown with Warner management over the future of the then poor-selling Atari VCS consolewhich Bushnell wanted to ditch and replace with a more advanced systemWarner forced Bushnell out of the firm in November 1978.