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First Video Game Ever Sold Is Being Sold
9:00AM Owen Good | Two arcade cabinets for Nolan Bushnell’s Computer Space, regarded as the first commercially sold video game ever, have been listed on eBay. The games, which predated Pong by about a year, are currently going for $US1500 and $US2500. More »
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Bushnell’s Battleswarm Enters Betaswarm
7:20AM Mike Fahey | Battleswarm, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell’s online PC game that pits real-time strategy players against first-person shooter fans, is now allowing players to sign up for beta in advance of next month’s release. More »
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3:20AM Mike Fahey | Nolan Bushnell, creator of Pong and founder of Atari, returns to game development with Battleswarm: Field of Honor, a real-time strategy / first-person shooter hybrid he describes as “a mash-up between StarCraft and Starship Troopers.” More »
Atari Founder Returns To Development With Battleswarm
3:20AM Mike Fahey | Nolan Bushnell, creator of Pong and founder of Atari, returns to game development with Battleswarm: Field of Honor, a real-time strategy / first-person shooter hybrid he describes as “a mash-up between StarCraft and Starship Troopers.” More »
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Nolan Bushnell To Be Awarded BAFTA Fellowship
3:20AM Mike Fahey | The British Academy of Film and Television Arts will bestow their highest honour at this years GAME British Academy Video Games Awards to the gather of Atari and pioneer of Pong, Nolan Bushnell. More »
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Nolan Bushnell Bets On GameWager
1:40AM Mike Fahey | Atari founder Nolan Bushnell is back in the gaming business once again, as a press release heralds his “third coming” as part of the gaming sweepstakes website GameWager.The Middleman Gets Its Violent Coin-Op On
11:40PM Brian Ashcraft | Here’s an exclusive sneak look at tonight’s episode of ABC Family’s The Middleman. To bring everyone up to speed: The scene features the show’s heroine Wendy Watson and her new boyfriend Tyler, who’s completely in the dark about her job fighting aliens and bad dudes. But! They’re both totally into zombie films and video games. Oh, and Nolan Bushnell gets name dropped. Tipper Gore, too. And the Dalai Lama. More »
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Nolan Bushnell’s Opinion of Atari
3:00PM Brian Ashcraft | While not running uWink restaurants or heading up an in-game ad firm, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell (pictured) likes to talk up the state of the game industry. Bushnell’s been around, so his insights are often insightful! In an interview with game site Gamasutra, Bushnell talks about how the hardware wars are “probably over”, saying that “it’s ridiculous to talk about how my photorealism is better than your photorealism”. He also offers on the modern incarnation of Atari: More »Nolan Bushnell Doesn’t Want To Mess with 47-Button Controllers
5:00AM Brian Ashcraft | Nolan Bushnell (pictured) is a casual guy. As the Atari founder likes to point out, his games were easy to pick up and play, but difficult to master. And the controls for something like, I dunno, Pong? SIMPLE. Says Bushnell: I think the Wii by Nintendo is getting games that once again are fun for people who don’t want to make a career out of figuring out how to run a 47-button controller… I think that the business right now should be much, much bigger than it is. If it were evenly spread over all demographics and age groups, it’d be huge. But it’s not. It’s basically an 18 to 28 year-old male dominated business of about 15 million. That’s where most of the traffic is. Casual games on the net add to that, but they’re all network-based. Wait, wait, wait. Back up, Bushnell! A 47-button controller? Oh man, would we love to see that! (Playing it, well, that’s another matter.) Bushnell Interview [Next-Gen] More »
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Nolan Bushnell Talks His 600 Trillion Games, Pong Dates
4:00AM Leigh Alexander | Atari founder Nolan Bushnell recently talked to GameDaily about his uWink business, a growing chain of restaurants that feature touch terminals on every table – not only do they let users order their food that way, but they can also play games together. And Bushnell estimated the number of games he’d be able to serve through uWink at 600 trillion games across 100,000 restaurants Ambitious – but hey, it’s Nolan Bushnell, right? When we covered Bushnell’s recent talk at Wedbush Morgan’s annual management access conference, we heard him say that he misses the idea of gaming as a social activity, since the decline of arcades, and that part of what he hopes to do with uWink is to revive that group spirit and keep multiplayer that’s actually in-person alive. In the GameDaily interview, he cited an example – Pong used to be a hot tool for chicks to pick up guys at bars? More »
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