The game’s coin box filled up over and over again, and they knew they had a big hit. They put it into Andy Capps’ Tavern in Sunnyvale, Calif. Alcorn had an interest in technology from an early age, so his father signed him up for a course under RCA on radio TV and electronics repair while he was in. They decided to put it in a cabinet and mount a coin box on it. When it was done, Bushnell thought it played well. He had to figure out how to get the score digits to work. He started in June, 1972, and it took him three months. But Alcorn was convinced he had to do a good job on the game. The contract didn’t actually exist, as it was just a training exercise. At a time when the five most valuable companies on the planet are high-tech firms and nearly half of Americans say they cannot live without their cell phones, Troublemakers reveals the untold story. Back in the early 1970s, he got together with Nolan Bushnell to create coin-operated video games, such as an arcade version of the early game Spacewar! Bushnell asked Alcorn to make a simple ping pong game, a version of the Magnavox Odyssey’s tennis game, under a contract from General Electric. Register today.Īllan Alcorn is a one of the wizards of Atari and one of the fathers of the video game industry. Interested in learning what's next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next.
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