Steve Bristow
Steve Bristow, one of the developers of the most famous Atari games and the Atari 2600, one of the first and best known home videogame consoles, passed away on February, 22th.
He helped Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, that lately founded Atari, to develop Computer Space, that is commonly accepted as the world’s first commercially sold coin-operated videogame. When Bushnell and Dabney founded Atari, he was hired to develop some of the most known games of the company, like Indy 800 and Tank, developed under the name of Kee Games, an Atari subsidiary, and Breakout. During the years passed in Atari he rose the position of VP of Arcade Division, then VP of Consumer Games and later VP of Computer Division. He developed, with Steve Mayer and Larry Emmons, the Atari 2600, one of the first home videogame consoles, that lead the videogames market until the videogame crash of 1983. He left Atari at the beginnning of 1984.
