Nolan Bushnell

Nolan Bushnell is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Atari and founded Chuck E. Cheese. His businesses helped popularize arcade video games.

Ted Dabney: Ted Dabney was an American engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Atari with Nolan Bushnell. Dabney partnered with Bushnell to establish Atari and develop its early products.
Pong: Pong is an arcade video game released by Atari in 1972 that simulates table tennis. Its commercial success made Bushnell’s arcade strategy visible to a mass audience.
Spacewar!: Spacewar! is a 1962 computer game in which two players pilot spacecraft and try to destroy one another. Bushnell encountered the game in college and adapted its premise for commercial arcade play.
Arcade video game: An arcade video game is a coin-operated electronic game designed for play on a dedicated machine in a public venue. Bushnell’s Atari helped turn this format into a popular commercial entertainment business.
Al Alcorn: Al Alcorn is an American engineer who designed Pong, Atari’s first commercially successful video game. Bushnell assigned Alcorn the prototype that became Atari’s breakout arcade hit.
Computer Space: Computer Space is an arcade video game released in 1971 by Nutting Associates, based on Spacewar!. Bushnell’s first commercial game tested whether arcade customers would pay to play video games.
Nutting Associates: Nutting Associates was an American arcade game manufacturer that released Computer Space in 1971. Bushnell worked there and developed his first commercial video game before founding Atari.
Video game crash of 1983: The video game crash of 1983 was a sharp contraction of the North American home console market. Atari’s market troubles became a major part of the industry crisis that followed its rapid growth.
Steve Jobs: Steve Jobs was an American entrepreneur who co-founded Apple and worked briefly at Atari as a technician. Jobs’s Atari employment connected him to Bushnell and an early Apple co-founder.
Chuck E. Cheese: Chuck E. Cheese is a family restaurant and entertainment chain founded by Nolan Bushnell in 1977. Bushnell combined arcade games, food, and live entertainment in this restaurant concept.

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