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It wasnât Bushnell himself who created the program for Atari, but a new hire by the name of Al Alcorn, who had worked at Apex alongside Atariâs founders as a junior engineer and had never so much as seen a video game until Bushnell showed him Computer Space. Pong was the first game program he ever created.
World's first PC game written by Bill Gates has been turned into an iPhone app. The game Donkey is less well-known than some of Bill Gates's other creations but it was in fact the first-ever PC game. The simple driving game was written at 4am by Gates and a friend on a prototype PC in 1981, and revolves around dodging donkeys in a supercar. It was given away free with early versions of the DOS operating system for IBM PCs. The new version is on sale for Apple iOS devices, priced at $0.99.