{"id":6165,"date":"2022-06-30T13:36:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T11:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/30\/pushing-buttons-happy-50th-birthday-to-atari-whose-simple-games-gave-us-so-much\/"},"modified":"2022-06-30T13:36:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T11:36:57","slug":"pushing-buttons-happy-50th-birthday-to-atari-whose-simple-games-gave-us-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/30\/pushing-buttons-happy-50th-birthday-to-atari-whose-simple-games-gave-us-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Buttons: Happy 50th birthday to Atari, whose simple games gave us so much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: As the revolutionary company celebrates a half-century, we look back at everything video games owe to Atari<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/ng-interactive\/2021\/nov\/24\/sign-up-for-pushing-buttons-keza-macdonalds-weekly-look-at-the-world-of-gaming\">Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian\u2019s gaming newsletter. If you\u2019d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email in below \u2013 and check your inbox (and spam) for the confirmation email.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This week marks a truly important video game anniversary: it is 50 years since Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney incorporated Atari Inc, the company that laid the foundations for the video games industry. There have been many appraisals of the company and its landmark achievements in the games press over the past few days \u2013 from the arrival of a Pong machine in Andy Capp\u2019s Tavern in Sunnyvale, California, in 1972, through classic titles such as Breakout, Asteroids and Missile Commands, to the iconic home consoles. So many moments of creative genius, so many genres, concepts and conventions bursting into existence at the hands of scruffy engineers and designers such as Ed Logg, Larry Kaplan and Dona Bailey.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2022\/jun\/30\/pushing-buttons-atari-50-anniversary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8f27bb8fc3226ccaa60899b9f89b31eafd3e533e\/0_147_2480_1488\/master\/2480.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=fa250b731ac66404477492197412dde3\" title=\"Pushing Buttons: Happy 50th birthday to Atari, whose simple games gave us so much\" \/>In this week\u2019s newsletter: As the revolutionary company celebrates a half-century, we look back at everything video games owe to Atari<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nWelcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian\u2019s gaming newsletter. If you\u2019d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email in below \u2013 and check your inbox (and spam) for the confirmation email.<br \/>\nThis week marks a truly important video game anniversary: it is 50 years since Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney incorporated Atari Inc, the company that laid the foundations for the video games industry. There have been many appraisals of the company and its landmark achievements in the games press over the past few days \u2013 from the arrival of a Pong machine in Andy Capp\u2019s Tavern in Sunnyvale, California, in 1972, through classic titles such as Breakout, Asteroids and Missile Commands, to the iconic home consoles. So many moments of creative genius, so many genres, concepts and conventions bursting into existence at the hands of scruffy engineers and designers such as Ed Logg, Larry Kaplan and Dona Bailey. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: As the revolutionary company celebrates a half-century, we look back at everything video games owe to Atari Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian\u2019s gaming newsletter. If you\u2019d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/30\/pushing-buttons-happy-50th-birthday-to-atari-whose-simple-games-gave-us-so-much\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pushing Buttons: Happy 50th birthday to Atari, whose simple games gave us so much<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}