Nolan Bushnell

Nolan Bushnell is a pioneer of the industry of the Video game to the the United States of America, he is an originator of Pong and a founder of Atari.

Born in 1943, it obtains an electronic diploma for the occupation of engineer in in 1968.

In 1971, Bushnell invents the first machine of arcade, Computer Space , then markets the first video game, Pong in 1972. The financial success of the play enables him to develop the small entity which it created and baptized Atari. In 1976, it resells it with Warner Communication Inc. for 28 million dollars and inaugurates, the following year, the first restaurant of its chain of restoration Chuck E. Cheese which associates fast food, electronic game and theaters.

Thereafter, Bushnell, always overflowing of imagination, founds a score of companies among which Catalyst Technologies, Etak, Androbot, Axlon, Irata, AAPPS and ByVideo. With its last company, uWink Inc., Nolan Bushnell and its team invest the sector of the plays multijoueurs on Internet. Bushnell intervenes, in addition, regularly in conferences and conferences in the United States.

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