• Samuel Frederick "Ted" Dabney Jr. (May 2, 1937 – May 26, 2018) was an American electrical engineer, and the co-founder, alongside Nolan Bushnell, of Atari...
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    Dabney Wharton Coleman (January 3, 1932 – May 16, 2024) was an American actor. Widely known for his portrayal of egomaniacal and unlikeable characters...
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    developer and home computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Atari was a key player in the formation of the video arcade and video...
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    combat arcade video game released in 1971. Created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in partnership as Syzygy Engineering, it was the first arcade video game...
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  • the future of the home video game market. In June, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded Atari, which would go on to be one of the most well-known video...
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  • Dabney may refer to: Dabney, Arkansas, an unincorporated community Dabney, Indiana, an unincorporated community Dabney, Kentucky, an unincorporated community...
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    by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, but Bushnell and Atari co-founder Ted Dabney were surprised by the quality of Alcorn's work and decided to manufacture...
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    founded in Sunnyvale, California, USA in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, was a pioneer in arcade games, home video game consoles, and home computers...
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  • Nolan Bushnell, based on ideas by him and co-founder Ted Dabney. The final design was done by Dabney, possibly with assistance by Bushnell and Pong designer...
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    1971. He worked for the pioneering video company Ampex, where he met Ted Dabney and several other people that would end up being constants through the...
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  • Space, was released in November 1971 by Atari founders Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in partnership as Syzygy Engineering. The game in part marked the end...
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    first arcade game, Computer Space, was created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, the founders of Atari, Inc., and released in 1971; the company followed...
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  • Atari, Bushnell would drive around the Bay Area with Atari co-founder Ted Dabney looking at different pizza parlors and restaurants to brainstorm concepts...
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  • computer, presented using chess notation. Summer – Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney begin work on an adaptation of the Spacewar! mainframe game. Originally...
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    employee Ted Dabney and found they had common interests. Bushnell shared his ideas of creating pizza parlors filled with electronic games with Dabney, and...
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    Computer Space, saw a demonstration of the Odyssey. Inspired, when he and Ted Dabney quit Nutting to found Atari, he assigned Allan Alcorn to create a cheap...
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    to separately license the game and technology developed by himself and Ted Dabney to be manufactured by the company. July 26-30 – Magnavox initiates its...
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  • was Computer Space (1971), which was developed by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney and was based on Spacewar!. Bushnell, who had previously worked at an...
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    sold across its lifetime. Atari, Inc. was founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in 1972. Its first major product was Pong, released in 1972, the first...
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    based on Spacewar!, Computer Space, was developed by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, which would become the first commercially sold arcade video game and...
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    version of it, but had gone in a different technological direction. He and Ted Dabney had initially started with a US$4,000 Data General Nova computer which...
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  • but left after not being given that opportunity to form Atari Inc. with Ted Dabney. Nutting Associates continued manufacturing video games up until 1977...
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  • like Spacewar! in 1962. Spacewar! directly influenced Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney to create Computer Space in 1971, the first recognized arcade game. Separately...
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  • on the network. June 27 – Atari Inc. is founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in Sunnyvale, California. They absorb the assets of their prior partnership...
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  • (1972–1984), the defunct original corporation co-founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney Atari Corporation (1984–1996), the defunct corporation formed by Jack...
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    1972. Inspired by the table tennis game on the Odyssey, Nolan Bushnell, Ted Dabney, and Allan Alcorn at Atari, Inc. developed the first successful arcade...
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    first commercial home console, in 1972. Concurrently, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney had the idea of making a coin-operated system to run Spacewar! By 1971...
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    the Magnavox Odyssey, released in 1972. Separately, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, inspired by seeing Spacewar! running at Stanford University, devised...
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    arcade video game, Computer Space (1971), created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney and released by Nutting Associates. It was demonstrated at the Amusement...
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    8-inch floppy disk introduced. 1972 US Atari founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. 1972 US Pong released – widely recognised as the first popular arcade...
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