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Arcades: Nostalgia Abounds

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Nolan Bushnell - Is He Still Around?

Nolan Bushnell is the only one that could have done it in the world, says Josh Clark. He recruited a guy named Ted Dabney who Together they went on to found a tari with another guy named Al Alcorn The three of them created a first a rip off of space war called computer space in 1971 and a lot of people say like it wasn't good It wasn't a good game. It was too hard Because the whole point of creating a game they found out after this first attempt is to make it Just hard enough to keep people interested but easy enough that you can play it while half-drunk Yeah,. because these these coin-operated games their first targets were

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