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Father of Video Games turning 60

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the looking-to-the-past dept.

Bill Kendrick writes "Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and the "father of video games" will be turning 60 next week, on February 5th. Along with Atari, which Bushnell began in 1972 (and left before the end of the decade), he also founded over 20 other companies, including Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theater restaurants. He holds many patents relating to both video games and other industries. For more on The Bringer of Pong, check out some interviews from the San Jose Mercury, Metroactive and over at Good Deal Games, as well as his Wikipedia entry. Happy birthday, Nolan!"

11 of 189 comments (clear)

  1. wow, interising by diablo6683 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hmm, i wonder what the commercial applications of this are? 8 of 8.

  2. Still no FP? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Man those FP bots must be getting rusty...

  3. 1972 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What's with the year 1972? Ever clothes shop I go into I see 1972 on all the clothing - wtf is the deal with that?

    Atari 2600 is where all the gaming started for me.

  4. I turn 25 on February 3rd!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Its the truth!

  5. Re:Divx 5.0.3 is out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I would like to find out if anyone has tried it and how was their experience with it ?

    Stable ? Faster ?

  6. Might or might not be off-topic, but.. by Hott+of+the+World · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Didn't chuck-e-cheese used to be called Showbiz pizza?

    With a bear instead of a rat?

    I like those better.

    Oh yeah, and Pitfall was the grandfather of mario!

    --Sig starts Now!

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  7. Mod parent up (3, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    This should have been modded (3, offtopic) so that others could read it and get the latest version of Divx.

    If only I had some mod points...

  8. My lawsuit by FosterKanig · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So he was involved in video games and pizza. Where the hell is my lawyer to sue his fat ass, in regards to MY fat ass?

  9. wikipedia by sirsampson · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    not sure wich is cooler, google or wikipedia...

  10. Re:Divx 5.0.3 is out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i have no idea about encoding, but I can play a lot of divx 3.11 files that would crash Windows Media Player 6.4.xx with divx 5.02, so yay I guess... It's a shame there's not more people encoding movies in xvid :\

  11. Re:Bah! by Siriaan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    YHBT

    I was being sarcaRstic.

    Yeesh.