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| Arcade Original Pong |
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During the 70's and up to the mid 80's, Atari
was the recognized leader in all area's of
videogames. Starting out and establishing the
Video Arcade industry, Atari set the stage
for the 10 billion dollar industry with the
release of Pong the first arcade machine game
relesead in 1972.
Atari Pong would be a smash hit and Nolan
Bushnell (ex-owner of Atari) knew it. Nolan
being the superb salesman that he is,
convinced Midway that Nutting didn't want it,
and told Nutting that Midway didn't want it
either, so Bushnell took the $500 in
royalties he'd made off of Computer Space and
set Al Alcorn to work on designing a simple
game of TV tennis. He and partner Ted Dabney
started Atari. Needless to say, Pong was a
monster and before it could be patented,
every company copied it, including Allied
Leisure where Gene Lipkin was working at the
time. "Nolan would roll over fresh if he
hears this," says Lipkin, "but our Paddle
Battle was a better game." Even Nutting
Associates got into the Pong game with their
own version called Space Pong. Pong would see
many different cabinet versions from cocktail
tables to dog houses to even Pong's in wooden
barrels! Unfortunately Pong attracted so
much attention, a certain company by the name
of Magnavox took notice and for good reason,
months earlier they demonstrated a home TV
video game called Odyssey and Atari's new
Pong game was strikingly similar, too much
so. So after a little checking by Magnavox
lawyers, sure enough, on the Magnavox guest
book for the demonstration was the signature
of none other then Nolan Bushnell himself.
Magnavox sued Atari, Bushnell & Atari agreed
to a license under the Sanders/Magnavox
patents for which Atari paid a fixed sum as a
paid-up license in June of 1976 for domestic
games. In later years Atari paid much more
for foreign rights. All in all, the
settlement was certainly in Atari's favor due
to its huge success with Pong and its many
variations and flavors.
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| Pong Watch |
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I succeeded in compressing all the
electronics for this watch in to a 10mm-thick
case. The 96x64 OLED display runs
continuously - unlike older LED watches,
there is no need to press a button to see the
time. Battery life is 25 hours, so recharging
is done every night.
I've got the full design and manufacture
details on my build log:
http://www.maushammer.com/systems/Watch/Build
%20Log/Build%20Log.html
Sorry, not for sale :-)
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Durée : 88 s |
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