ABSTRACT
Among the people who played Spacewar! was Nolan Bushnell (born 1943), an engineering student at the University of Utah in the mid-sixties. Bushnell was a naturalborn businessman with innovative ideas and a passion for games so he understood right away that video games had potential from a commercial perspective. In 1969, while working for a company named Ampex, he joined forces with his friend and colleague Ted Dabney (born 1937) to start turning his vision into reality.
