Nolan Bushnell not marketed the game well, and decided that his next game would be licensed to a bigger manufacturer. In 1972, Bushnell and Dabney set off on their own, and learned that the name "Syzygy" was in use; Bushnell has said at different times that it was in use by a candle company owned by a Mendocino hippie commune and by a roofing company. They instead incorporated under the name Atari, a reference to a check-like position in the game Go (which Bushnell has called his "favorite game of all time"). They rented their first office on Scott Boulevard in Sunnyvale,
Nehemiah Bushnell he established a law office with Orville H. Browning. Bushnell maintained this legal partnership until his death. He briefly edited the "Quincy Whig". In 1851, Bushnell was appointed president of the Northern Cross Railroad. He extended the railroad from Quincy to Galesburg, Illinois. Bushnell, Illinois, a town founded between the two cities in 1854, was named in his honor. He remained president until 1861, when the line was integrated into the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&R). He then became the attorney for the CB&Q. Bushnell founded the Quincy Railroad Bridge Company in 1867, which built a bridge for the