Thomas Mcguane

March, 1974

You're in a bar getting quietly twisted when you notice a weird TV in a corner. And all it gets is this dot bouncing around, going "Pok, Pok, Pok." Well, that thing is going to make inventor Nolan Bushnell, 30, $1,000,000 this year. It's Pong, front runner of the fastest growing market in Saturday-night bar entertainment: computer/video games. Starting out as a poor Western boy with nothing but a sawed-off slide rule, Bushnell turned hard science into clean fun and made a bundle in the...