From: lecoat@atari.org   
      
   Hi,   
      
   Because ATARI is still co-directed by Nolan Bushnell, and the firm is   
   now designing games for the smartphones, they made a gift of a hundred   
   iPod/iPhone/iPad original games for free. That's really cool, indeed !   
      
   That's an anniversary for all of us :-)   
      
   Clu writes :   
   > I bet playing Space War on the university campus was just mind blowing.   
   >   :)   Anyway the birthday of Atari was featured in the Stars and   
   > Stripes newspaper here in the U.S. Armed Forces.  Was really cool seeing   
   > that mentioned.   
   >   
   > Doc Clu   
   >   
   > On 6/27/12 9:22 PM, Francois LE COAT wrote:   
   >> Hi,   
   >>   
   >> ATARI is 40 today, 2012 june, 27 !   
   >> "   
   >> In 1971, Bushnell and partner Ted Dabney managed to turn Spacewar! into   
   >> the first mass-produced video arcade game, Computer Space. It wasn’t   
   >> particularly successful. Undeterred, they continued their partnership,   
   >> Syzygy, by founding Atari, Inc.. (Another company, it turned out, had   
   >> first dibs on “Syzygy.”) They filed the incorporation papers on June   
   >> 27, 1972, occupied 1,700 square feet of office space in Santa Clara,   
   >> California, in the heart of Silicon Valley, and got ready to release a   
   >> game they called Pong. The rest is videogame history.   
   >> "   
   >> Source :   
   >>    
      
   Regards,   
      
   --    
   François LE COAT   
   Author of Eureka 2.12 (2D Graph Describer, 3D Modeller)   
   http://eureka.atari.org/   
   http://fon.gs/atarians/   
      
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