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TechStuff Classic: The Rise and Fall of Atari - Part One

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What if We Were to Create an Experience Using an Electronic Game

Nolan bushnell and ted dabney came up with the idea of playing games for a quarter. They wanted to create an electronic game where you would get either an allotted amount of time to play, or some other metric. Less paul used an ampex tape recorder which was designed to have a second y riding head tat would allow him to record a track and then play along with that recorded track. But it did do also is destroy the original track, the original recording,. It records over it. So you no longer have u plus you. And that's the new base.

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