1941- Video-game pioneer who invented the first video arcade game and founded the Atari company. Bushnell was inspired by one of the earliest video games, Spacewar, while studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He developed his first...

Nolan K. Bushnell (born February 5, 1943) is an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur who founded both Atari and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters chain. Bushnell has received a great deal of recognition, including being inducted into...

Byline: Steve Friess In the beginning, Nolan Bushnell created Atari, and it was good. So good that it made its inventor, now 60, into a cult figure for video-game enthusiasts. In advance of his scheduled appearance at last weekend's Classic Gaming Expo...

Byline: Brad Stone There are plenty of ways to describe Nolan Bushnell. Technology visionary. Catalyst of the computer-game industry. Unrelenting entrepreneur with sparkling successes and catastrophic failures. A man who was actually able to create a successful restaurant franchise with the name...

News from the virtual world:_ONE WITH EVERYTHING: Back in the previous century, when I was an editor at Games Magazine, we published a fake ad for a device that would play any kind of electronic game, from PC disks to Nintendo cartridges to "Simon." We...