Article: Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on managing Steve Jobs and more

[VectorGamer]

http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/10/atari_founder_nolan_bushnell_on_steve_jobs_amazoncom_and_more.html

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http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/10/atari_founder_nolan_bushnell_on_steve_jobs_amazoncom_and_more.html

 

Great read - thanks for that!

[mos6507]

Wow, quite a slam of the 2600 there. It seems to have been cut out of context. The moral of the 2600 is not that the architecture was a mistake. In Stella at 20, he did say that had Atari gone down an optimal, the 2600 would have been replaced with the A8 architecture and it wouldn't have HAD to last more than a few years. Nevertheless, the 2600 wound up making the most money for Atari long after it was (on paper) deemed obsolete. So it had a big leg up on more costly, complicated architectures like the Astrocade and the Intellivision. And the 2600 goes down as the single biggest success story of Nolan's career.

 

You know, it's been a long time since I've read an interview of Nolan that doesn't bother me in one way or another... Like the one a while back where he rudely bashed Ralph Baer.

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You know, it's been a long time since I've read an interview of Nolan that doesn't bother me in one way or another... Like the one a while back where he rudely bashed Ralph Baer.

 

Agreed. It's usually a little disparaging, but I remind myself that he's an entrepreneur first, foremost and lastly.

[phaxda]

Ack! Terrible transcription: "They couldn't get passed the idea." Ugh.

 

Other than that, interesting.

[fiddlepaddle]

Ack! Terrible transcription: "They couldn't get passed the idea."

I don't know... down at the office, we pass around ideas all the time.