“I like to explain myself as a leisure time technologist” – Nolan Bushnell
You’ve gotta love the BBC Archive—they at all times handle to faucet straight into our nostalgia cortex! 🕹️✨
On this gem from 1981we catch Nolan Bushnellthe mastermind behind Atari, dispensing insights on video video games and whether or not they faucet into our “animalistic nature” with regards to violence in video games. (Spoiler: he’s charmingly candid.). He additionally talks concerning the ground-breaking Pong, which was renamed to Ping within the UK because of the phrase ‘pong’ having a special which means over the pond 😉
By this level, Nolan had already offered Atari to Warner Communications for a cool US$28 millionpocketing about US$15 million himself 💸—and he wasn’t slowing down. As an alternative, he pivoted to one thing much more wild: launching Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Time Theatrethe place pizza met arcade video games, pinball and animatronic mice dominated the stage. 🎤🍕
The most effective half? The clip exhibits each children and adults fully caught up within the early ’80s arcade craze—a full-blown cultural second delivered to life by the man who mainly invented “enjoyable” as a enterprise mannequin.
📼 Complete time capsule. Complete legend. Complete vibes.
supply: BBC Archive (Fb)
