Nolan Bushnell Condemns Grand Theft Auto

Posted by simoniker on Sunday August 10, 2003 @10:34PM from the who's-chuck-e-cheese's-daddy? dept.

Thanks to Newsweek for their extremely short, but somewhat illuminating mini-interview with Nolan Bushnell, timed to coincide with this weekend's Classic Gaming Expo in Las Vegas. The founder of Atari and creator of the RoboCat briefly summarizes Atari's glory days: "Since we were so limited with graphics then, we had to focus on gameplay", but is dismissive of today's violent titles, saying: "I don't like the ones that glorify antisocial behavior, like Grand Theft Auto and Vice City. We actually had a rule at Atari, which seems kind of quaint now, that you could blow up a tank, a plane, a car - but you couldn't do violence against a human." There are more complete interviews with Bushnell archived at the San Jose Tech Museum site and at Joystick101.org.

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So much for "the rule": Outlaw by felddy · 2003-08-11 01:00 · Score: 0, Redundant

It seems Mr. Bushnell must have forgot about Outlaw. The only goal in the game is to cap the other human in the dome. No tanks, cars, or planes to worry about at all, just bullets to the brain.