Allan Alcorn (born January 1, 1948) is an American pioneering engineer and computer scientist best known for creating Pong, one of the first video games.
Nolan Kay Bushnell (born February 5, 1943) is an American businessman and electrical engineer.
He established Atari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheeses Pizza Time Theatre chain.
Bushnell has been inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame and the Consumer Electronics Association Hall of Fame, received the BAFTA Fellowship and the Nations Restaurant News Innovator of the Year award, and was named one of Newsweeks 50 Men Who Changed America.
Bushnell has started more than twenty companies and is one of the founding fathers of the video game industry. He is on the board of Anti-Aging Games.
Nolan is credited with Bushnells Law, an aphorism about games easy to learn and difficult to master being rewarding.
Raymond Edward Kassar (January 2, 1928 – December 10, 2017) was president, and later CEO, of Atari Inc. from 1978 to 1983. He had previously been executive vice-president of Burlington Industries, the worlds largest textile company at the time, and president of its Burlington House division. A member of the Board of Directors, Kassar had spent over thirty years at Burlington.