Atari co-founder Ted Dabney has passed away. He was 81.<\/p>\n
Dabney, along with Nolan Bushnell, founded iconic video game company Atari in 1972. Dabney was an electrical engineer, playing a key role in creating the video technology used in Pong<\/em>. He was instrumental in the foundation of the coin-operated arcade business.<\/p>\n The news came by way of video game historian Leonard Herman, who also said he was\u00a0a friend of Dabney\u2019s.<\/p>\n \u201cI just learned that my good friend, Ted Dabney, the co-founder of Atari, passed away at the age of 81,\u201d Herman wrote. \u201cRIP dear friend. Your legacy will live on a long time!\u201d<\/p>\n Dabney left Atari the year after co-founding the company, following\u00a0a falling out with Bushnell. Though their relationship was strained, the pair worked together on Pizza Time Theater, which later would be known as Chuck E. Cheese\u2019s.<\/p>\n Dabney continued to work for major electronics companies in the later part of his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Atari co-founder Ted Dabney has passed away. He was 81. Dabney, along with Nolan Bushnell, founded iconic video game company Atari in 1972. Dabney was an electrical engineer, playing a key role in creating the video technology used in Pong. He was instrumental in the foundation of the coin-operated arcade business. The news came by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}