https://www.polygon.com/2018/5/26/17398682/ted-dabney-atari-co-founder-obituary > Ted Dabney, who founded Atari with Nolan Bushnell in 1972 and developed the first commercially available arcade game, has died. He was 80. > News of Dabney’s death spread on Facebook and other social media following a post from the video games historian Leonard Herman.