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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...
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    American video game developer and home computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Atari was a key player in the formation of the video...
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  • was released in Japanese arcades by Namco. The game was designed by Nolan Bushnell and Steve Bristow and prototyped via discrete logic chips by Steve Wozniak...
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    Bushnell's Law or Nolan's Law is an aphorism often attributed to Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, on the subject of video game design: All the best games...
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    Atari, Inc., founded in Sunnyvale, California, United States in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, was a pioneer in arcade games, home video game consoles...
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    Alcorn as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, but Bushnell and Atari co-founder Ted Dabney were surprised by the quality...
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    video games, but their development cost and limited lifespan drove CEO Nolan Bushnell to seek a programmable home system. The first inexpensive microprocessors...
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    Computer Space is a 1971 space combat arcade video game. Created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in partnership as Syzygy Engineering, it was the first...
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    created as the mascot for a restaurant proposed by Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari) in 1977. Bushnell attended the International Association of Amusement...
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  • was an American electrical engineer, and the co-founder, alongside Nolan Bushnell, of Atari, Inc. He is recognized as developing the basics of video circuitry...
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  • Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre was founded by Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, who sought to expand video-game arcades beyond adult locations like...
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  • developments influenced the future of the home video game market. In June, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded Atari, which would go on to be one of the most...
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  • of Nutting Associates including Nolan Bushnell visit the showcase and play the Odyssey demonstration unit. Bushnell takes particular note of the Odyssey...
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  • player Nolan Rice Best, American editor Nolan Bushnell (born 1943), American entrepreneur Nolan Carroll (born 1987), American football player Nolan Clark...
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  • 2013-04-04. DeMaria; Wilson, p. 13 Kent, pp. 38–39 Bushnell, Nolan; Weaver, Christopher (2017-11-17). "Nolan Bushnell: Transcript of an interview conducted by Christopher...
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    video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey, released in 1972. Separately, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, inspired by seeing Spacewar! running at Stanford University...
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  • said that he named Sorrento after Nolan Bushnell, founder of the video game company Atari and said "Not that I think Nolan is a bad guy or anything. It’s...
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  • It was founded in 1981 in Sunnyvale, California by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell and received much assistance from fellow Atari luminary, Al Alcorn....
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    Media. November 1996. pp. 211–229 (213). Bushnell, Nolan; Weaver, Christopher (17 November 2017). "Nolan Bushnell: Transcript of an interview conducted by...
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  • Nolan Bushnell loses award after sexism outcry". the Guardian. Retrieved May 14, 2018. "Bio - Welcome to Nolan Bushnell's Website". Welcome to Nolan Bushnell's...
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  • Video Games" along with other pioneers of the early video game industry Nolan Bushnell and Ralph Baer. University of Southern California's Games Program and...
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    game industry. The first arcade game, Computer Space, was created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, the founders of Atari, Inc., and released in 1971; the...
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    designer of the video arcade game Pong, creating it under the direction of Nolan Bushnell and Dabney. Pong was a hit in the 1970s. In addition to direct involvement...
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  • Bushnell may refer to: Bushnell, Florida, a city Bushnell Army Airfield, a World War II airfield Bushnell, Georgia, an unincorporated community Bushnell...
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  • Media. November 1996. pp. 211–229 (213). Bushnell, Nolan; Weaver, Christopher (17 November 2017). "Nolan Bushnell: Transcript of an interview conducted by...
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  • Turing Award winner Alan Kay, Pixar founder Ed Catmull, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, and Adobe founder John Warnock. Notable innovations of computer science...
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  • Technologies started by Nolan Bushnell after he left Atari. "My idea was that I would fund [the businesses] with a key," says Bushnell. "And the key would...
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  • conference at Candlestick Park in San Francisco on November 3, 1997, with Nolan Bushnell as league commissioner. It was sponsored by Microsoft, Nvidia, and Levi...
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    board for the arcade video game Breakout. According to Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, Atari offered $100 (equivalent to $686 in 2023) for each chip that...
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  • known as Howard Delman), and Ed Rotberg, the company was bought by Nolan Bushnell and made a division of his Pizza Time Theatre company in 1983. In 1984...
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