Back on the board of directors, where he pretty much belongs.
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/19/no...n-atari-board/
Nolan Bushnell is back at Atari!
Back on the board of directors, where he pretty much belongs.
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/19/no...n-atari-board/
It's finally time for Chuck E. Cheese: The Video Game!
Seriously though, that's cool that he's back at the company he started. We owe a lot to this guy and what he's done for our favorite hobby.
That's good to hear.
Well hopefully he'll do something good with the company. Or at the very least the Nolan Bushnell Biopic can be made without too much legal difficulties.
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That is definitely good to hear.
The company that is now named Atari has absolutely nothing to do with the company Bushnell started. And I don't mean that in the sense that it's changed radically over the years - I mean that Infogrames has never had the slightest thing to do with the Atari of yore aside from the name.Originally Posted by ShinobiMan
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." --Bertrand Russel (attributed)
QFT. I've made it my practice to distinguish the two corporate entities by pronouncing the name with a French accent whenever in reference to Infogrames cum Atari ("ahtah-REE").
Still, I'd be lying if I said this news didn't hold some appeal for me to revive that old Atari magic. But until the Atari name and IP are 1) back in American majority-owned hands and maybe 2) making consoles again, such gestures as hiring Bushnell are only symbolic at the very most.
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Here ya go...
http://www.ufointeractivegames.com/d...p?k=2469&p=nds
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That's cool and all, but does it really matter? Can this guy even wrap his mind around the idea of a modern video game? Sure he's done some great things before, but things have changed in the last 30 years.
Hmm interesting thought... I figure I'd be on board for a modern or retro niche based Atari system.
Sadly, this appears to be the case. After Atari and CEC, he basically spent the next 30 years drifting from one venture to another, leaving a lot of half baked and failing businesses in his wake. Last I heard, his restaurant/interactive bar venture uWink was struggling to keep their last remaining location open. His concepts for on-line and other modern games looked fairly amaterish. I suspect the rest of the video game world left him behind decades ago. I respect what he created with Atari, but this move will almost certainly not bring anything new to either Atari/Infogrames or the classic community.
Well it has been stated by Bushnel himself that he likes the new "motion" technologies. So I would expect to see him pushing towards that.
Warlords on Natal is quite an intriguing idea if I do say so myself.
I was always kinda interested in the guy since he comes from my hometown of Clearfield, Ut. Its kinda funny but apparently he got his start working at our local amusement park named "Lagoon" that my wife and I go to every summer. He was one of those guys that tries to guess your weight. Also my wife worked at the local Air Force base in a tool crib with an 80 year old lady who knew Nolan when he lived here locally. Small world........
It seems fine to me that somebody who inherently understood the value of games as games (I never thought I'd hear myself saying this as I've given non-arcade Atari games short shrift) and not as "interactive movies" which I'm becoming less and less fond of as the years go on. If he has to take things back to the "stone ages" to make them fun again, so be it.
In all seriousness, though, I don't think he's going to do much to change contemporary corporate gaming development and culture. Young people still make games. He will likely have some ideas to push in the right direction though.
http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic...o-atari-board/
Can't say that everyone shares you guys' enthusiasm for the man.
Rightfully so! If anyone knows the real history of what went on at Atari, they'd feel the same way.
They just presuming on AA, who's to know if Ted even speaks the truth. All big wig corperates are liars, you just gotta live with it. There's one guy saying he's interviewing all these guys for some books, and he's actually believeing they are telling the truth.
Anyway, good to know Nolan back at Atari, now all he's gotta do is to re-start the coin-up industry for USA.
The two people conducting the interviews are two of the most respected historians in Atari collecting and have been personally responsible for the preservation of most of Atari's history. If it was just one former employee saying these things, it might be different, but many, many people have said the same things and I believe Bushnell's poor business track record speaks for itself.
So, Ted might still lie to them, no difference.
Or, how can we believe those two people? Are they respected historians? Says who? You? See what I mean, no-one can be sure
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