Eren Ucar - Allan Alcorn
Allan Alcorn was the creator of Pong, the video game most credited for starting the age of video games basically making video games popular.
Around 180,000 units and copies were sold including the home edition and the arcade game.
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/4007/Atari-PONG/
Games Created by Allan Alcorn
January 1, 1948, San Francisco, California, United States
He created the game as a test from Nolan Bushnell, he was going to throw the game away as he didn't think it was going to be any good.
https://www.retrogamer.net/profiles/developer/allan-alcorn/
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Allan Alcorn used to work for a electronic company known as Ampex
Allan actually followed his friend Nolan Bushnell to join a small company known as Syzygy (Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney's original company that became Atari) after working at and know eatch other from Ampex https://www.retrogamer.net/profiles/developer/allan-alcorn/
Ted Dabney was the co-founder of Atari Inc. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/obituaries/ted-dabney-dead-atari-pong.html
The home edition made around 15;000,000$ https://www.engadget.com/2012/04/01/atari-pong-review/
Most people agree that the Atari Inc. Pong arcade machine was around 800$ a machine and all in all the game made around 28,000,000$
In an interview with retrogamer, Allan tells a fascinating story
“Andy Capp’s was one of our better locations. We knew the owner, Bill Gattiss” He states, he also says here that
"About a week or ten days later, I did get a call from Bill saying that the machine wasn’t working. It didn’t surprise me. That prototype was so poorly made, if you’d banged on it, it would’ve stopped working. I went down to fix it after work and some people were there waiting and were quite upset. It had gained a following, which surprised me. I opened the coin box to get a free game and saw the problem – it was packed with quarters." after being asked by the reporter; And did the coin box ever get so full the machine stopped working?
https://www.retrogamer.net/profiles/developer/allan-alcorn/
Pong
Gran Trak 10
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Doctor Pong
He is currently 70 years old
He had been told to make a copy of the Magnavox Odyssey's tennis game under a contract from General Electric. (This was a lie) https://venturebeat.com/2011/01/12/atari-co-founder-al-alcorn-talks-about-creating-pong-and-modern-game-industry/
He was also involved in the game console Atari 2600 and helped develop it
Atari Inc. Since its funding in 1992, has made a lot of classics including pac-man which supposedly made the company around 1 billion dollars in their time.
https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=134997
Nolan Bushnell, was the establisher of Atari Inc and Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Time Theatre https://www.fastcompany.com/3068135/the-untold-story-of-atari-founder-nolan-bushnells-visionary-1980s-tech-incubator
Chucke Cheese
Chucke Cheese created a reason for families to go out to arcades together as it was also a restaurant
Pong was released in 1972 http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/4007/Atari-PONG/
Other companies made copies of pong, but so did atari including:
Snoopy Pong
Doctor Pong
Double Pong
Poppy Pong
Barrel Pong