Best Classic Games

The Godfather of gaming himself, founder of Atari Nolan Bushnell, runs us through the three best classic games (warning: your mind may be blown that people were playing video games before your parents were born).

The Godfather of gaming himself, founder of Atari Nolan Bushnell, runs us through the three best classic games (warning: your mind may be blown that people were playing video games before your parents were born).

Spacewar!(Not-so-personal computer, 1962)


“It could be played only on million-dollar computers. I would spend all night playing it in the lab. It was like nothing anybody had ever seen.”

Pong


(Arcade, 1972)


“Pong brought everyone together: men, women, jocks…In fact, there were some women gamers hustling men at the bar, making $100 a week playing Pong.”

Tempest


(Arcade, 1981)


“This game had a lot of industry firsts: the first video game with a selectable level of difficulty and the first video game to use Atari’s Color-Quadrascan vector display technology.”

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