Steve Bristow, who as an engineer played a major role in the development of the Atari 2600, has died. Bristow stood at Atari at the head of the arcade-section for he in the development of the Atari 2600 involved. He also made games like Breakout and Tank.
The death of Steve Bristow, was reported by Martin Goldberg, author of a book on the history of Atari. Bristow, formed in the mid – ’70s with Steve Mayer and Larry Emmons at the core of the team that made the Atari 2600 developed. The console was popular because he has many more games to play than previous generations of game consoles. It was one of the first consoles that made use of a cpu, the MOS Technology 6502. Games for the console were stored on a rom and also that was the Atari 2600 one of the first. For Bristow, the console worked, he was VP of Engineering of the department that arcade games and flipperautomaten developed.
In addition to his work on the hardware of Atari, was Bristow also involved in the development of various games. Then he thought of the concept of Tank, a game in 1974 as a dance arcade game by Atari on the market. A few years earlier, Bristow, already responsible for another arcade classic: Breakout. Together with Atari-optichter Nolan Bushnell invented the concept. The game was eventually built by the late Apple founder Steve Wozniak, helped by Steve Jobs.
