Bushnell and partner Ted Dabney developed and released “Computer Space” in 1971, which was considered to be the first cabinet-based video arcade game
That was followed by home versions from Atari and other manufacturers, creating the home game console market, which Atari came to dominate for several years with its iconic Atari 2600 console
In the video arcades, Atari ran into serious competition from the Japanese company Taito Corp., when Taito released the wildly-popular “Space Invaders” in 1978Atari fired back, with the vector-graphics video game “Asteroids” in 1979
Also, before Atari became iconic, Bushnell and Dabny’s “Computer Space” even made a cameo appearance in the 1973 dystopic thriller “Soylent Green” as a rich person’s toy in a world suffering from ecological collapse, extreme poverty, and food shortages set in — no kidding — 2022