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Achievement Nolan Bushnell is known as the "Father of the Video Game Industry".
Biography Best known for bringing "PONG", Atari Corporation,
and Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theater to the masses, Bushnell has
founded over 20 companies, including Catalyst Technologies, Etak,
Androbot, Axlon, Irata, AAPPS and ByVideo. With his current venture,
uWink, Inc., Bushnell and his team are changing the face of Internet
entertainment by streaming it into public portals and establishing
mass multi-player gaming tournaments worldwide. Bushnell holds several
patents on some of the basic technologies for many of the early video
games developed and is also the inventor or co-inventor of numerous
worldwide patents in various other fields and industries. He frequently
lectures at major universities and conferences throughout the United
States, inspiring others with his views on entrepreneurship and innovation.
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