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Also known as Nolan Key Bushnell, Nolan Kay Bushnell

American entrepreneur

Person · Open Library

Works
4

Top works

  • Shaping the Future of Education
  • Encontrar al nuevo Steve Jobs
  • Encontrar al nuevo Steve Jobs
  • Finding the next Steve Jobs

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Film & TV

Acting · Clearfield, Utah, USA

Nolan 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.

Known for

  • High Score — Self2020
  • Game Changers: Inside the Video Game Wars — Himself2019
  • The Artists: The Pioneers Behind the Pixels — Himself2018
  • Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari — Self2017
  • From Pong To Pokémon - The History Of Video Games — Self2017
  • 8 Bit Generation: The Commodore Wars — Himself2016
  • World 1-1 — Self2015
  • Gameplay: The Story of the Videogame Revolution — Self2015
  • Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine — Self2015
  • Video Games: The Movie — Self2014

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Active from
1943

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1
Total plays
2

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Quotes

  • The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
  • Business is a good game—lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.

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Key facts

Born
Nolan Kay Bushnell , ( 1943-02-05 ) February 5, 1943 (age 83) , Clearfield, Utah , U.S.
Alma mater
University of Utah , Stanford Business School
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
Fields
Electrical engineering , Computer software

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Encyclopedic overview

Nolan Kay Bushnell (born February 5, 1943) is an American businessman and electrical engineer. He established Atari, Inc., and the Chuck E. Cheese 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 that uses 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nolan Bushnell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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