Actually, Nolan and Ted Dabney's first foray in to video games. The two designed and built it together. Always amazes me how Nolan's PR over the years has effectively wiped Ted's contributions, and in some cases sought to rewrite history. Marty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Graham" <witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 11:26:13 AM GMT -06:00 Central America Subject: Re: The first video game On 13/12/2008 15:14, "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com> wrote: Yep, it was Nolan Bushnell's first foray into video games but didn't get too much money because it was too complicated for the 'average' user. From my own Atari page: " Whilst working at Ampex (creators of the first practical video recorder no less), Nolan Bushnell had already created an arcade video game based on Spacewar, which was a game written by Steve Russell in 1961 for the PDP-1 being distributed by Nutting Associates. However, it wasn't as popular as he'd have liked (he said you had to read the instructions, and people didn't have the patience!)" -- Adrian/Witchy Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer collection?