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1) Steve Russell/Spacewar/MIT 1) Steve Russell/Spacewar/MIT 2) Nolan Bushnell/Ted Dabney 3) Computer Space/Nutting 4) Atari 5) Pong 6) Ralph Baer/Odyssey/Magnavox 7) Arcade Games (list all titles? Pong – SF Rush 2049, talk about Midway West) (Bristow, Rains, Delman…etc…) KeeGames 8) Steve Jobs and Apple (Apple 1 looks exactly like all earlier Atari Coin-op boards, talk about Breakout, Woz, who did the new Breakout etc…) Connection (Story about how Atari employees went into Apple, asked for Apple stickers and placed them inside urinals and pee’d on them) 9) Sears Connection (Tom Quinn) Home Pong (Bob Brown, Harold Lee) 10) Pinball (List all titles) (Jerry Jessop was pinball repair) 11) Consoles Ultra Pong Doubles Super Pong Super Pong Pro Am Super Pong Pro Am 10 Stunt Cycle Video Pinball Game Brain Video Music 12) Stella Development/Cyan Engineering (Steve Mayer, Ron Milner, Jay Miner, Joe Decuir) 13) Warner Communications 14) Video Computer System 2600 (Stella/Sylvia/PAM 2800/Sears Telegames II Remote Control Graduate 2600 Jr Complete Atari cartridge list Third parties (Activision/Imagic...) 15) Vector Games (Lunar Lander, Howie Delman) 16) Handhelds Touch Me (Brad Saville knows whole story on handheld Touch Me) Cosmos/Holograms Spector (Roy Nishi) Handheld Space Invaders & breakout 17) Computers (400 & 800) 18) Atari related books and magazines (Antic, ANALOG) 19) APX and Atari Institute Club Med Project Advance Sunnyvale Research Lab 20) Atarisoft 21) Movies? (Airplane, Blade Runner, Superman 3, Daryl, Cloak & Dagger) 22) 5200 Atari 5100 – Craig Asher (controller) Dan Kramer (Trakball) 23) 7800 (General Computer Corp, Gary Rubio) Mindlink (Atari Bionics System and Vidcom-1 communicator) 24) Vaporware Voice Controller (Milton Bradley Lawsuit) Codenames 26) Ray Kassar/James Morgan 25) Crash 27) Ataritel (Steve Bristow) 28) Real Estate (1979 (35 bldngs), 1982 (50 bldngs), (80 bldngs 1984) 29) Nintendo (1983, Michele Erbertin) 30) Namco Connection 31) Atari Breakup/Tramiels 32) Atari Games 33) Tengen 34) Amiga/ST 35) Calculators/Federated 36) XEGS 37) Lynx 38) Panther/Jaguar/ Flare 1/Flare II 39) Williams 40) Atari & Sega 41) JTS 42) World of Atari 43) Classic Atari Today 44) Hasbro Interactive 45) Infogrammes 46) Spawn of Atari - Wired .
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