A Recent History of Writing And Drawing

Nolan Bushnell, inventor of Pong and founder of Atari, is rightly considered the father of electronic gaming.

While attending the University of Utah, learning the basics of computer graphics, alongside managing an amusement park and playing tournament chess; Bushnell fascinated by the combination of computers, images, and fun, prompted his first computerized video game 'Computer Space' (1970). The game which resembled a prototype of the later "Asteroids," was too complicated and cumbersome for mass production.

The next year, he invented Pong, a video version of ping-pong, whose ball was a blip that bounced back and forth on the screen between two paddles either side of the screen. Pong debuted at a bar in Sunnyvale, California, one evening in 1971. The game was literally overplayed: the machine broke down after being stuffed too full with quarters.

Further reading: www.pong-story.com/atpong1.htm