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| Born | Nolan Kay Bushnell February 5, 1943 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 |
| Institutions | Atari Chuck E. Cheese |
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.
He is credited with Bushnell's Law, an aphorism about games that are "easy to learn and difficult to master" being rewarding.[5]
- ^ "Nolan Bushnell".
- ^ "Our Team". Anti-Aging Games. Archived from the original on September 11, 2018. Retrieved June 5, 2014.
- ^ "CMU Silicon Valley". www.cmu.edu.
- ^ "Brainrush, Inc.: Private Company Information". Bloomberg. August 24, 2018.
- ^ Ian Bogost (April 2, 2009). "Persuasive Games: Familiarity, Habituation, and Catchiness". Gamasutra. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
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