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Graduated with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, was one of the students in 1960's to play Spacewar! on DEC mainframe computers
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One of the first virtual arcade machines on the market, Syzygy produced multiple consoles of "Computer Space". This coin-fed arcade game similar to Spacewar! was not successful commercially but was able to sell $3 million worth of product.
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Formed in Sunnyvale, California, Atari, inc and began immediate development of more coin-operated arcade games to appeal to the future market.
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You know it, you love it! With backing from Sears, Atari released Pong, a nearly instant success with millions of units sold. This development and release helped to concrete Atari as a household name and provided the needed funding to grow Atari in future years.
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"Steve asked me if I would put $50,000 in and he would give me a third of the company. I was so smart, I said no. It's kind of fun to think about that, when I'm not crying."
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Designed as a place where video games can be marketed more successfully towards children, Pizza Time Theater included pizza and animatronics as attractions and a homage to Walt Disney.
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Bushnell Founds Catalyst Technologies Venture Capitalist Group in Sunnyvale, California as one of the first technology "Incubators". A portion of their efforts (ETAK) was to digitize the maps of the world and is the backbone of clients such as Google Maps, mapquest, and others.
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After acquiring Sente Games in 1984, The video game company produces "Hat Trick", a very successful arcade game featuring interchangeable housing that was rare for the time. This interchangeability allowed for quicker updates and better machine maintenance
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Catered as an interactive restaurant experience with robotic dining and table-top screens used for everything from ordering to playing games.
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Starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Nolan Bushnell, "Atari" was announced as an adaptation of Bushnell's life story
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the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Fellowship Award (BAFTA) is the highest accolade the Academy bestows, and was awarded to Bushnell for his outstanding creative contribution to the Video Games Industry.
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Along with Tim Virden, Alan Bushnell joins the Board of Directors of Atari, SA, a multi-national french holding company with the subsidiaries of Atari Interactive and Atari, Inc.
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After the large increase in computing power and a shift in a focus on programming, Nolan Bushnell Founds and promotes BrainRush, which focuses on video game technology and educational software
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Due to it's ubiquity and cultural impact, Pong was inducted into the Video game hall of fame, attributing it's success to Atari and Nolan Bushnell.
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a maker of robotics software platforms for autonomous vehicles and mobile robots, Bushnell invested in and joined Perrone Robotics as a focus toward self-driving solutions and "swarm" technologies.
