25: Nolan Bushnell (Part 1: Atari)

In 1972, Nolan Bushnell and partner Ted Dabney founded video game and home computer developer Atari. In 1983, 700,000 copies of E.T. the video game and other unsold titles were buried in a New Mexico landfill. And this is only PART 1 of the ballad of Nolan Bushnell. JOIN US ON PATREON FOR EARLY EPISODE RELEASE, WEEKLY BONUS CONTENT, AND MORE: https://www.patreon.com/desperateactsofcapitalism HUGE THANK YOU TO OUR BELOVED $5 AND UP PATRONS: Courtney Witcher, Raven Snow, Sam Johnson, Owen Traxler, Cyrus Katzenburg, Marilyn Kearney, remi-rose Evans, Kelly Carroll, Kate Volz, Emily Schmitt, Marissa Kerr, Jamie Galioto, L0ST VEGAS, Cleophidian, Gaby Nogueira, Garrett M Desperate Acts of Capitalism is a comedy podcast about money, marketing, and how it all goes wrong. Join us on our magical journey through a wonderland of burning money! Hosted by CT Kelly and Evan Swope. IG: @desperateactsofcapitalism Tumblr: https://desperate-acts-of-capitalism.tumblr.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/daoccast Sources: https://medium.com/s/story/ataris-hard-partying-origin-story-an-oral-history-c438b0ce9440 https://books.google.com/books?id=gy4EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA15&pg=PA106#v=onepage&q&f=true https://books.google.com/books?id=gy4EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA15&pg=PA100#v=onepage&q&f=true https://thehustle.co/worst-video-game-in-history-et/ https://www.quora.com/Luck-What-is-the-luckiest-business-break-ever https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari,_Inc.