Computer Space company because he "couldn't screw it up more than they did". Nutting Associates did not make any further "Computer Space" games before closing in 1976. Bushnell's enthusiasm was soon vindicated, as Atari's first game, "Pong", went on to substantially greater success than "Computer Space". Although not as influential as "Pong", "Computer Space"s release marked the beginning of the commercial video game industry. Computer Space Computer Space is a space combat arcade game developed in 1971 as one of the last games created in the early history of video games. Created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in partnership as Syzygy
Galaxy Game were well into development and had gotten permission to place the machine at the Tresidder student union building at Stanford as a test site. It was then that they received a call from Nolan Bushnell, who had heard of their project and wanted to show them his similar project he was working on. Bushnell had also played "Spacewar" during the 1960s and wanted to make an arcade game version of it, but had gone in a different technological direction. He and Ted Dabney had initially started with a US$4,000 Data General Nova computer which they thought would be powerful enough