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	Nolan Bushnell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bushnell has started more than twenty companies and is widely recognized as one of the founding fathers of the video game industry.
		Bushnell graduated from the University of Utah electrical engineering program in 1968, and was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
		Bushnell was eventually forced out of the company in November of 1978 after a dispute with Warner over the future direction of the company, notably on their closed software strategy (later changed) for the home computer division.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nolan_Bushnell (1779 words)

	Metroactive News & Issues \| Nolan Bushnell: Introduction
		NOLAN BUSHNELL is known as the father of the video game industry, but of equal historical weight may be his role as the Silicon Valley's first rock star.
		Bushnell and wife Nancy hosted fundraisers for judicial candidates and the San Francisco Ballet, and in 1982, with his in-laws, he opened an opulent restaurant, the Lion and Compass in Sunnyvale.
		Bushnell the celebrity could be spotted beneath the stock ticker by the bar, playing starstruck techies in liar's poker with the serial numbers of folded dollar bills.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/09.16.99/cover/bushnell1-9937.html (706 words)

	Who Made America? \| Innovators \| Nolan Bushnell
		As the inventor of Pong, Nolan Bushnell is considered by many to be the "father of electronic gaming." He was born in Utah in 1943 and grew up a tinkerer, playing with electronic ignition systems and a roller-skate-mounted liquid fuel rocket in his garage.
		Bushnell's breakthrough took place in the same era as other technological developments in computing, most notably the personal computer.
		Bushnell himself founded the Chuck E. Cheese's "entertainment restaurants," a nationwide chain of pizza parlors with video gaming for children and their parents.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/bushnell_hi.html (392 words)

	Salon People \| The adventures of King Pong
		Nolan Bushnell, the quintessential screenager, ported table tennis to the television and launched a revolution in hand-eye coordination.
		Nolan Bushnell was the quintessential screenager, the proto-gamer who ported table tennis to the television and launched a revolution in hand-eye coordination.
		The boom was born and the dawn of the digital age was shining brightly on Bushnell.
	www.salon.com /people/feature/1999/06/12/nolan/index.html (1006 words)

	Good Deal Games - Classic Videogame Games ARTICLE - Nolan Bushnell Keynote Speech at CGExpo 2003
		Bushnell as the "Man who needed no Introduction" and that "None of us would be here (CGExpo 2003) without him." Almost instantly, the room erupted with applause showering Nolan with our appreciation and gratitude for all he has done for our industry.
		Bushnell was allowed to speak about whatever subject he wanted and he even interacted with the crowd by allowing the crowd to vote on a variety of subjects he would be willing to discuss (the Atari hot tub was one of them although the crowd didn't bite).
		Bushnell, a class act, only had to say that he left Atari in good shape and that it was great to still see the Atari brand name survive today.
	www.gooddealgames.com /articles/CGE2K3_Nolan_Bushnell.htm (953 words)

	Nolan Bushnell - Encyclopedia Dramatica
		Nolan Bushnell relaxing now that his plans for world domination are complete
		Millions of kids who would have never been exposed to animal costumes, except through brief visits to Disneyland, were now enthralled by walking, talking fursuits.
		Nolan Bushnell has a lot to answer for.
	www.encyclopediadramatica.com /index.php/Nolan_Bushnell (155 words)

	Nolan Bushnell
		Nolan Bushnell is known as the "Father of the Video Game Industry".
		With his current venture, uWink, Inc., Bushnell and his team are changing the face of Internet entertainment by streaming it into public portals and establishing mass multi-player gaming tournaments worldwide.
		Bushnell holds several patents on some of the basic technologies for many of the early video games developed and is also the inventor or co-inventor of numerous worldwide patents in various other fields and industries.
	www.thocp.net /biographies/bushnell_nolan.htm (131 words)

	Metroactive News & Issues \| Nolan Bushnell
		Bushnell's personal net worth grew to between $35 and $50 million--a vast sum at the time--and his celebrity began to spread beyond the valley.
		Bushnell appealed the judgment to the 6th District Court of Appeals, claiming it had been the wrongful acts of Merrill Lynch that made him unable to pay.
		Bushnell owned the land beneath, leased it to the restaurant and then paid the mortgage with the proceeds.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/09.16.99/cover/bushnell2-9937.html (4369 words)

	Nolan Bushnell biography .ms (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Nolan Bushnell (born February 5, 1943) is the founder of Atari, Inc. (now owned by Infogrames) and the Chuck E. Cheese Pizza-Time Theaters and is considered to be the father of the video arcade industry.
		During his time there in the 1960s, Bushnell was one of many computer science students that played the now famous Spacewar game on DEC mainframe computers.
		In 1971, Bushnell and colleague Ted Dabney created the Spacewar clone "Computer Space" in a self-contained cabinet; it was manufactured and distributed by Nutting Associates.
	nolan-bushnell.biography.ms.cob-web.org:8888 (516 words)

	Computer History Museum - Lectures - Nolan Bushnell
		Nolan Bushnell is best known as the founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theater.
		Bushnell holds several patents on some of the basic technologies from many early video games and is also the inventor or co-inventor of numerous worldwide patents in various other fields and industries.
		Bushnell received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah, where he is a "Distinguished Fellow," and also attended Stanford University Graduate School.
	www.computerhistory.org /events/lectures/games_05072002/bushnell (232 words)

	Nolan Bushnell - Kotaku
		Atari founder and industry legend Nolan Bushnell had some pretty unkind things to say about the PS3 and Sony in general in a recently posted interview over at Red Herring.
		Bushnell's previous restaurant Chuck E. Cheese was centered around arcade games, pizza and animatronic animals.
		Kotaku Stalku: Nolan Bushnell Dislikes the "Wii" Moniker
	www.kotaku.com /gaming/nolan-bushnell (301 words)

	Profiles: Nolan Bushnell goes robotic
		Bushnell's Sunnyvale-based Axlon company is producing the first mass-merchandised low cost computer-programmable robot, the $119.95 Andy.
		Bushnell believes that the price can eventually be brought down to $70, after enough robots have been manufactured to create economies of scale.
		Nolan Bushnell loves having fun with technology His fl-glass desk is like what the boss of the computer company had in "Tron." The desk has two built-in computer monitors, a pull-out keyboard and a full line-up of LEDs and switches that control things like window shades and the hidden video projection screen.
	www.atarimagazines.com /v3n12/profiles.html (1156 words)

	Babson College - Nolan K. Bushnell
		Bushnell’s entrepreneurial career began in 1971, when he invented the first successful coin-operated video game, Pong.
		Bushnell ultimately developed and manufactured 35 video games before selling the company to Warner Communications in 1976 to serve as chairman of the board of Atari until 1979.
		Bushnell believes that the combined thinking of the Catalyst group will prevent the young companies from making typical start-up mistakes and bring them to profitability sooner.
	www3.babson.edu /ESHIP/outreach-events/Nolan-K-Bushnell.cfm (320 words)

	Wired 13.10: The Player
		Nolan Bushnell launched the age of the videogame.
		Nolan Bushnell is ready to sit for an interview, but I've got a better idea: Let's skip the chitchat and go straight to the game console.
		After all, Bushnell is a videogame legend, inventor of the pioneering digital diversion Pong and founder of Atari, the original electronic entertainment powerhouse.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/13.10/bushnell.html (1035 words)

	Lee's Peek n Poke
		Nolan created Atari at the age of 27 after making a few buck from his first arcade games Computer Space and then Pong which became the first commercial computer game.
		But alas Nolan decided to leave his Atari behind, with a massive payout from Warners in 1976 for 28 million and to stay on for another 2 years which became hell for Nolan as his company was turned into men in suits rather than jeans and drugs which seemed to slant the company down.
		Nolan went though a bad patch of legal stuff and money worries but our leader seems to be back on his cloud with Uwink which sees Nolan sort of back into what he knows best...Video games.
	peeknpoke.emuunlim.com /nolan_feature.htm (404 words)

	Rec Room Amusements - Interview with Nolan Bushnell
		Nolan shot hoops for his high school team, and he loved the more intellectual games as well - he was in the debating team and played tournament chess.
		Bushnell saw too many players slip in a quarter and just stand there dumbfounded while the evil saucer winged over and zapped their drifting spaceship.
		Nolan knew this one was going to be a hit when he installed a test version of the game in Al Capp's Tavern, and the patrons practically beat each other up for the privilege of dropping quarters into its slot.
	www.recroom-amusements.com /bushnell.htm (1355 words)

	GameSpy.com - Article: GameSpy's 30 Most Influential People in Gaming
		While Willy Higginbotham or Ralph Baer might be the true father of video games, Nolan Bushnell is the one who brought them to the masses.
		Bushnell was intrigued with the promise of electronic games ever since seeing Steve Russell's pioneering Space War running on a university mainframe in 1962.
		These days, Bushnell seems to be trying to return to the gaming sector via his new uWink online gaming venture, but odds are he'll be better remembered for his unique accomplishments in the 1970s.
	archive.gamespy.com /articles/march02/top30/127/index.shtm (652 words)

	GameSpy.com - Gaming's Homepage
		Bushnell, in fact, went to see the first demonstrations of the Magnavox in 1972.
		Bushnell claimed he had thought up Pong before he had gone to the Odyssey demonstration, but the judge ruled against the company, forcing Atari to pay $700,000 to Magnavox for the right to keep selling Pong.
		The Odyssey and Channel F may have been first, but without Bushnell's savvy, business acumen, and belief that there truly was a market for these games, they might never have become the industry we know and love today.
	archive.gamespy.com /articles/july03/25smartest/index26.shtml (1149 words)

	Pong Video Game History - Invention of the Pong Video Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Pong was the invention of Nolan Bushnell, a young engineer who introduced video table tennis to arcades in 1972.
		Bushnell served as the sole proprietor of Catalyst Technologies, a source of technical advice and venture capital for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.
		Bushnell was granted patents on some of the basic technologies for many of the early video games developed and is also the inventor or co-inventor of numerous worldwide patents in various other fields and industries.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventions/pong.htm (1298 words)

	Nolan Bushnell on the Revolution
		Atari founder Nolan Bushnell has praised the Nintendo Revolution remote, claiming some controllers are too complex for casual gamers and may scare many away.
		Bushnell took shots at Sony’s Dual Shock controller as well, claiming it may be too complex for many gamers.
		Bushnell also claimed that complex controllers have turned millions of gamers away, claiming there were 44 million gamers in 1982, far more than the 18 million today.
	www.actiontrip.com /rei/comments_news.phtml?id=120505_8 (696 words)

	Chuck E Cheese, founder Nolan K. Bushnell
		In 1978 Nolan K. Bushnell left Time Warner and had bought back the rights to run Pizza Time Theaters because he knew that if kids could play games in public in a safe family environment, that this would be a new type of entertainment franchise.
		Nolan K. Bushnell loved the Disney animatronics at Disneyland and even tried to get employment their in the early days, however, being unsuccessful gaining employment he eventually started his own animatronics with the lead of being a big mouse, probably given the idea by the famous Mickey Mouse.
		Nolan K. Bushnell states that video games need to go back to their role as a social facilitator, the way party games help people to interact.
	spyhunter007.com /chuck_e_cheese_founder_nolan_k_bushnell.htm (1844 words)

	Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth: Nolan Bushnell and Dean Kamen
		Here's a podcast of presentations by Nolan Bushnell and Dean Kamen.
		Nolan Bushnell is near and dear to my heart because he created two of the most important icons of my childhood: Atari computers and Chuck E. Cheese pizzeria arcades.
		Nolan and Dean weren't the only speakers in the panel, but I'm facing a race against time now that my AC power cord is busted and I've got less than an hour of power left.
	www.andycarvin.com /archives/2005/09/nolan_bushnell_1.html (407 words)

	American Leasing - Nolan Bushnell Story
		Meeting Bushnell marked an early success for American Leasing, as Menkin went on to arrange all of Atari's leasing until its public offering.
		Nolan didn't want to put it into production, but he continued to make the lease payments.
		Nolan had this idea of a personal computer.
	www.americanleasing.com /leasing/nolan.html (537 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Nolan Bushnell
		Nolan Bushnell attended one of the early Odyssey demonstrations in Burlingame, CA on May 24, 1972.
		After founding Atari on June 27, 1972, Bushnell and Al Alcorn (his first employee) built the famous prototype coin-op Pong machine and installed it in Andy Capp's, a local Sunnyvale bar.
		Although Bushnell insisted that he did not copy PONG from the Odyssey, US District Court Judge John F. Grady was not convinced that Bushnell had conceived Pong prior to seeing the 1972 Odyssey demo and ruled that Atari must pay royalties to Magnavox in order to market its games.
	www.fusionanomaly.net /nolanbushnell.html (373 words)

	Gamasutra - Nolan Bushnell Praises Nintendo Revolution
		Bushnell, who was voted into the Sony Metreon's 'Walk Of Game' alongside Shigeru Miyamoto in 2005, then suggested of these "Complexity lost the casual gamer" and that "Violence lost the woman gamer".
		Bushnell himself has only been tangentially involved in the consumer video game business since leaving Atari before the market crash of the ‘80s.
		Bushnell's latest venture in the gaming space is a new pizzeria in Los Angeles called Media Bistro, which will feature a touch screen monitor on each table allowing visitors to place their order and communicate with fellow diners, with interaction between male and female diners being particuarly encouraged.
	www.gamasutra.com /php-bin/news_index.php?story=7391 (537 words)

	- Inductees
		Nolan Bushnell, considered the "Father of the Video Game Industry," is best known as the creator of Pong, the Atari Corporation and Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theater.
		Nolan holds several patents on some of the basic technologies for many of the early videogames developed and is also the inventor or co-inventor of numerous patents in various other fields and industries.
		With a passion for education, he frequently lectures at major universities and conferences throughout the United States, inspiring others with his views on entrepreneurship and innovation.
	www.walkofgame.com /inductees/inductees2005.html (629 words)

	DIEC: Atari's Founder Slams Sony, Praises Nintendo - Kotaku (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bushnell helped spearhead the gaming boom of the 1970s and early '80s, making a mint and getting out right before business got bad.
		Bushnell instead got into the restaurant business, creating Chuck E. Cheese, cashing in on pizza and arcade games.
		All I could read was "machinma." Bushnell skips the slide before I even have a chance to register the rest of it.
	www.kotaku.com /gaming/diec-2005/diec-ataris-founder-slams-sony-praises-nintendo-140629.php (1218 words)

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