NolanBushnell never appeared in those tributes, even though Apple was riffing on an iconoclastic philosophy he embraced while running video game pioneer Atari in the early 1970s.
Young engineer NolanBushnell sat down in the mid-1970s, looked at the falling prices of memory chips, extrapolated where they would be in a couple years and precisely predicted when computer games played on college computers would be cheap enough to operate in bars.
Our friends at Atari were kind enough to give us an extremely limited-edition (there are only two in existence) Atari 2600 gutted with modern PC components and signed by Atari founder NolanBushnell -- and one lucky soul will be able to call this beauty their very own!