Nolan Bushnell Biography

Nolan Bushnell founded both Atari and Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza. He was inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame & named one of Newsweek’​s “50 Men Who Changed America.”. He has started more than twenty companies and is one of the founding fathers of the video game industry. His latest venture is called Brainrush that uses video game technology that incorporates real brain science. 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. Nolan has started more than twenty companies and is one of the founding fathers of the video game industry. He is currently on the board of a company called anti-aging games, but his latest venture is an educational software company called Brainrush that is using video game technology in educational software incorporating real brain science in a way that Bushnell believes will fundamentally change education. Nolan is an entrepreneur who many consider to be the “Founding Father” of the modern gaming industry. One of Nolan’s later ventures, Kadabrascope, would develop technology for computer animation. While Kadabrascope had limitations because of computer processing speed in the early 80’s it would later be sold to George Lucas and ultimately go on to become the highly successful Pixar.

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