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Atari co-founder 'Ted' Dabney passes away, aged 81

29 May 2018 •

Dabney worked with Nolan Bushnell on arcade classic Pong, but left in 1973 after claiming that he had been sidelined

Samuel ‘Ted' Dabney, the co-founder of Atari alongside Nolan Bushnell, has died at the age of 81. He had been suffering from cancer of the esophagus. Dabney was one of the technical brains behin...

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