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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.
Computer Space (1971) [edit]. Two months after Galaxy Game' s installation, Computer Space by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney was released, which was the first coin-operated video game to be commercially sold (and the first widely available video game of any kind).