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Nolan Bushnell
Bushnell in 2013
Born	Nolan Kay Bushnell (1943-02-05) February 5, 1943 (age 82) Clearfield, Utah, U.S.
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	University of Utah Stanford Business School^[1]^[2]^[3]
Known for	Co-founding Atari, Inc. Pong Creator & founder of Chuck E. Cheese
Awards	Video Game Hall of Fame Consumer Electronics Association Hall of Fame
Scientific career
Fields	Electrical engineering Computer software
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Nolan Kay Bushnell (born February 5, 1943) is an American businessman and electrical engineer. He established Atari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre chain. He 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 Newsweek's \"50 Men Who Changed America\". He has started more than 20 companies and is one of the founding fathers of the video game industry. He is on the board of Anti-Aging Games. In 2012, he founded an educational software company called Brainrush,^[4] that is using video game technology in educational software.\n

He is credited with Bushnell's Law, an aphorism about games that are \"easy to learn and difficult to master\" being rewarding.^[5]\n

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v t e Early history of video games (1947-1971)
Analog and lightbulb games	\n Cathode-ray tube amusement device (1947) \n Bertie the Brain (1950) \n Nimrod (1951) \n Carmonette (1953) \n Hutspiel (1955) \n Tennis for Two (1958) \n
Early Chess programs	\n Turochamp (1948) \n Los Alamos Chess (1956) \n Kotok-McCarthy (1962) \n Mac Hack (1965) \n Kaissa (1967) \n Blitz (1968) \n Chess (1970) \n
Early mainframe games	\n OXO (1952) \n Spacewar! (1962) \n Marienbad (1962) \n The Sumerian Game (1964) \n Hamurabi (1968) \n Space Travel (1969) \n Lunar Lander (1969) \n Star Trek (1971) \n
First arcade games	\n Computer Space (1971) \n Galaxy Game (1971) \n
People	\n Mabel Addis \n David Ahl \n Ralph Baer \n John Makepeace Bennett \n Nolan Bushnell \n David Champernowne \n Ted Dabney \n Sandy Douglas \n Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. \n William Higinbotham \n Josef Kates \n Steve Russell \n Ken Thompson \n Alan Turing \n

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Personal life

Business career

Early career and Syzygy

Atari, Inc.

Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre

Catalyst Technologies Venture Capital Group

PlayNet/Aristo

uWink

Atari, SA

Modal VR

Anti-Aging Games, LLC

BrainRush

Global Gaming Technologies Corp (CSE \u2013 GGAM.U)

Other ventures

Media appearances

Accolades

Planned biographical film

GDC Pioneer Award controversy

References

Further reading

External links

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Talks

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