Nolan Bushnell
Overview
United States
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engineer
Engineer
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and entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
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who founded both Atari, Inc
Atari, Inc
Atari, Inc. was an American video game and home computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Primarily responsible for the formation of the video arcade and modern video game industries, the company was closed and its assets split in 1984 as a direct result of the North...
and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters
Chuck E. Cheese's
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chain. Bushnell has been inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame
Walk of Game
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and the Consumer Electronics Association
Consumer Electronics Association
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Hall of Fame, received the BAFTA Fellowship and the Nations Restaurant News “Innovator of the Year” award, and was named one of Newsweek
Newsweek
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's "50 Men Who Changed America." Bushnell has started more than twenty companies and is one of the founding fathers of the video game industry.