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Nolan Bushnell

Video Game Technology Pioneers

An American engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Atari, Inc. with Ted Dabney on June 27, 1972, in Sunnyvale, California. After seeing the Magnavox Odyssey demonstrated in May 1972, Bushnell assigned engineer Allan Alcorn to build a table-tennis arcade game at his direction; the result, Pong, released later that year, became the first commercially successful video game and helped establish the video game industry as a viable business.

Facts
Birth Year
1943 1
Nationality
American 2
Defining Contribution
Co-founded Atari, Inc. in 1972 and directed the creation of Pong, the arcade game that made the video game industry commercially viable. 2
Role
Executive 1
Classification
Award
Game Developers Choice Award 1
Award
BAFTA Fellowship 1
Connections

Associated With

Atari, Inc., Organizations

Co-founder, with Ted Dabney, on June 27, 1972.

Source Wikipedia
Additional Source Nolan Bushnell (Wikipedia)
Magnavox Odyssey, Technologies
Video Games, Media Forms
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Nolan Bushnell

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Nationality

United States

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Sources
1. Nolan Bushnell (Wikipedia)
  • Lead sentence
    Nolan Kay Bushnell (born February 5, 1943) is an American businessman and electrical engineer.
  • Article lead sentence
    Nolan Kay Bushnell (born February 5, 1943) is an American businessman and electrical engineer.
  • Article text
    In 2012, he founded an educational software company called Brainrush that uses video game technology in educational software.
  • Article body: BAFTA Fellowship
    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".
  • Article body: Game Developers Choice Award
    In January 2018, the Advisory Committee of the Game Developers Choice Awards announced that Bushnell would receive the Pioneer Award at the March ceremony at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), crediting his role at Atari.
  • In Category: Figures
  • Associated With: Video Games
  • Associated With: Atari, Inc.
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2. Wikipedia
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Nationality: American
  • Defining Contribution: Co-founded Atari, Inc. in 1972 and directed the creation of Pong, the arcade game that made the video game industry commercially viable.
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