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January_2000
Re: Nolan Bushnell on ZDTV


From: Michael Benge ( )
Date: Thu Jan 06 2000 - 08:10:43 CST


> He doesn't claim to have actually written the code for Pong, he only
claims
> to have created the idea for Pong, and how it should play and feel. There
>
He did write the code for Pong. That was his version of the game. The idea
for Pong was created by someone 30 years earlier. A prototype was working
by the early 60's, and he saw it at a trade show, if I remember correctly.
I'll dig out my stuff and post the inventors name and pertinent details.
Nolan used someone else's idea. That is why he was sued and paid royalties.


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