Nolan Bushnell
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About
Entrepreneur credited with being one of the founding fathers of video gaming. He is the founder of Atari, Inc. as well as Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters. He is credited with the aphorism known as Bushnell's Law.
Before Fame
He worked at Utah's Lagoon Amusement Park as a teenager.
Trivia
He was named as one of Newsweek magazine's 50 Men Who Changed America. Bushnell's Law speaks to the rewarding aspects of games that are "easy to learn and difficult to master".
Family Life
His daughter Alissa has worked with him at the uWink digital entertainment company.
Associated With
He and Atari were offered the design for the personal computer by future Apple CEO Steven Jobs but turned it down.
