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Bushnell had the possibility of making a video game that could be played by anyone. In 1972, he and Dabney founded Atari and saw everything clearly, at a computer fair in Burlingame, California, where they saw the Magnavox Odyssey, for the first time, and played the ping-pong version created by Ralph Baer. Bushnell realized that the game could be improved and easier to play. Al Alcorn, an engineer from Atari, perfected the PONG video game, and Bushnell installed it in a bar in Grass Valley, California and in a tavern in Sunnyvale, California, called Andy Capp's (now Rooster T. Feathers). Pong was a popular game but the appearance of imitations prevented Atari from dominating the recreational machine market.
In 1974, Bushnell and Atari decided to make a version of PONG for the domestic environment. Thanks to a marketing and distribution agreement with Sears, PONG sales took off in 1975. In 1977, Atari released the Atari 2600 VCS (Video Computer System), which revolutionized the home video game market and started the new era of consoles of video games. The demand was so great that even Atari executives had to lend a hand in the production lines during the first Christmas after launch. In 1976, Warner Communications (now Time Warner) bought Atari, and Bushnell was feeling increasingly uncomfortable with the direction the company was taking, until he abandoned it in early 1979.
While still in Atari, in 1977 Warner Communications repurchased the Pizza Time Theaters franchise, a place where children arrived at Pizza and played video games. The Pizza Time / Chuck E. Cheese's also had robotic animals that played music (Bushnell had always wanted to work for Walt Disney, but had never hired him when he was recently graduated. So the pet Chuck E. Cheese's was his homage to Disney). In 1984 Bushnell left Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theaters (now named for his famous pet) upon entering the company in suspension of payments. Subsequently, the company overcame the crisis and is now a successful restaurant chain.
