Al Alcorn

Mr. Alcorn began his career at Ampex in 1968 working on a high resolution video system. In 1972 he co-founded Atari and designed the first commercially successful coin-operated video game called PONG. In 1974 he built the first video game on a custom chip (home Pong) followed by the Atari VCS home video game machine which launched the cartridge video game industry.