Harold Lee, Home Pong Designer and the Man Who Hired Jay Miner
In 1974 an engineer by the name of Harold Lee had become burnt out from his work designing arcade game boards and he quit and left Atari. No sooner had he left then he would receive a call from Allan Alcorn. Al asked Harold a question - "Could Pong be put on a chip?" Harold said it could be done and suddenly he found himself now hired back at Atari as an outside consultant. Harold and Al worked on the design and the chip was f...
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