Pong's success made Atari long for more. Al Alcorn was invited to become project manager, and he subsequently asked Steve Jobs to develop a prototype for a one-player version of Pong. Jobs was promised a bonus if he used as few chips as possible for the game, which led him to ask his friend Steve Wozniak, who worked for Hewlett-Packard at the time, to help him.
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Breakout - flyer of the arcade game -
Breakout is an arcade game developed by Atari, introduced in 1976. Photo found on arcadeflyers.com
BonamiWozniak succeeded in all respects and later revealed that Breakout's design had been his inspiration for the Apple II. (Wozniak founded Apple in 1976 with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne.)
Originally, the arcade version was designed for a black and white screen. However, the top part of the screen, which had to be destructed using a ball, was taped off with transparent, colored strips, showing the bricks in different colors. Breakout became a very popular game, and clearly served as inspiration for Taito's Arkanoid from 1986.
We kindly thank Bonami for lending us the Breakout on display in the Arcade exhibition.
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Apple wasn't launched in 1997 though.
Apple Computer, inc. was, in fact, founded in 1976, by Jobs and Wozniak. The original Macintosh is from 1984. The only thing interesting that happened in 1997 was that they fired Gil Amelio and, having bought NeXT, got Jobs back.
he potherca,
this game is from 1976, not Apple :) Wozniak used the design as inspiration for the Apple II, which was released a year later. As it says in the text, Apple wasn't launched until 1997.
Typing error?
I think you'l find founded Apple was 1976 not 1997 ;-)