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Nolan Bushnell
Nolan Kay Bushnell 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…
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business · American businessman and engineer (born 1943) · engineer · entrepreneur · computer scientist · inventor · video game developer · also Nolan Bushnell, Nolan Key Bushnell, Nolan Kay Bushnell, Bushnell
Born 5 February 1943 · Q335039
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2026· 2 entries
“I was so smart, I said no. It”
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2021· 1 entry
Nolan founded the Exodexa adaptive learning gaming platform that delivers individualized, interactive learning experiences across Chemistry, Physics, Business Law, and History, with more than 4,000 lessons in development
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2019· 1 entry
Nolan was appointed CEO and Chairman of publicly traded company Global Gaming Technologies Corp
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2017· 1 entry
Published “Phase 3 Trial of <sup>177</sup> Lu-Dotatate for Midgut Neuroendocrine Tumors” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 2,998 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Bushnell co-founded Black Sheep Ventures Ltd, a private equity firm with Ronald Bauer
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2012· 1 entry
Founded an educational software company called Brainrush that uses video game technology in educational software
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2010· 1 entry
Atari SA, the owner of the Atari brand and its home legacy since 2001, announced that Nolan Bushnell would join the company's board of directors
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2009· 3 entries
Awarded BAFTA Fellowship (2009).
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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts awarded the Academy Fellowship to Bushnell in recognition of his outstanding achievement as a founding father of the video games industry
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Bushnell announced his intention to move into the game-education market with a venture called Snap
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2008· 2 entries
The company opened a third Southern California restaurant and one in Mountain View, California
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Bushnell became a member of AirPatrol Corporation's board of directors
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2007· 2 entries
Bushnell joined the board of NeoEdge Networks as chairman
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Bushnell joined the advisory board of GAMEWAGER
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2005· 2 entries
Served as a judge on the USA Network reality series Made in the USA
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Published “Human brain mechanisms of pain perception and regulation in health and disease” in European Journal of Pain — cited 2,653 times.
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1996· 1 entry
The company which carried on Atari's arcade legacy, Nolan Bushnell became senior consultant to the small game developer Aristo International after it bought Borta, Inc
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1995· 1 entry
“s, but based on a video game theme. However, an unrelated multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed against Bushnell by Merrill Lynch prompted most of E2000”
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1991· 1 entry
Bushnell endorsed the Commodore International CDTV, a CD-ROM-based version of the Amiga 500 computer repackaged for the consumer electronics market
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1987· 1 entry
Included the hockey video game Hat Trick
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1984· 2 entries
Was the first company to digitize the maps of the world, as part of the first commercial automotive navigation system; the maps ultimately provided the backbone for Google Maps, mapquest
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Bushnell purchased the arcade game company Videa and renamed it Sente Games
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1983· 3 entries
Bushnell introduced the first "Androbot" TOPO
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“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.”
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As the restaurants started to lose money, Sente, though profitable, was sold to Bally for $3
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1982· 1 entry
Bushnell commissioned Charley, a 67-foot racing yacht designed by Ron Holland
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1981· 2 entries
Bushnell turned over day-to-day food operations of Chuck E
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Bushnell created the TimberTech Computer Camp in Scotts Valley, California
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1977· 3 entries
As a means for Atari to stock its arcade games
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As the Atari Video Computer System or Atari VCS and later known as the Atari 2600
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While at Atari, Bushnell purchased Pizza Time Theatre back from Warner Communications
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1975· 2 entries
Just prior to Warner Communication's purchase of Atari
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Jobs offered Bushnell a chance for one-third equity stake in their budding company Apple Inc
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1973· 1 entry
To manufacture near-copies of Atari's games
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1972· 1 entry
Bushnell and Dabney set off on their own, and learned that the name "Syzygy" was in use; Bushnell has said at different times that it was in use by a candle company owned by a Mendocino hippie commune and by a roofing co
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1970· 1 entry
Bushnell and Dabney formed Syzygy with the intention of producing a Spacewar
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1964· 1 entry
Transferred to the University of Utah College of Engineering, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering
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1961· 1 entry
To study engineering and then later business
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1943· 2 entries
Born 1943-02-05.
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In Clearfield, Utah in a middle-class family who were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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