Robert Stein Loses out on Tetris
During the negotiations for the rights to Tetris, the man who first purchased the rights to the game from Russia made a…
Interview: Nolan Bushnell
While managing the games department at Lagoon Amusement Park in the 60s, a young college student named Nolan Bushnell had an idea.…
Al Alcorn and Explains the Need for Preservation
During a 2015 interview with Games Industry.biz, Atari Co-Founder Al Alcorn mentioned the importance of and current state of gaming preservation. He…
Nolan Bushnell Mandates Success at Atari
On August 3, 1973, Nolan Bushnell issued a memo to the engineering department of Atari with an eight-point action plan. These points…
George Plimpton Starts a (Console) War
In 1979, Mattel Electronics released what would be the first viable competitor to Atari with its new Intellivision console. In order to…
Warren Robinett Waxes Poetic
In June of 1979, Warren Robinett, a programmer at Atari, submitted the source code to the second game he'd developed for Atari.…
Business Advice from Nolan Bushnell
Nolan Bushnell is the type of person who seems to always have an idea. To that end, he also follows through and…
Shigeru Miyamoto Weighs in on Tetris
In the mid eighties, Tetris was being quietly passed around the video game industry. When it made it's way to Nintendo, Then…
Goodbye to a Legend; The Passing of Bernie Stolar
Growing up in the 90's, I was enamored with the "Console war," the battle between Sega and Nintendo. I found myself strictly…
Pete Bouvier; Twin Galaxies Former Owner and My Mentor – 1943-2017
In 2009 I made the decision, with the support of my wife, that I wanted to be involved in the video game…