“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 1981, we catch Nolan Bushnell, the mastermind behind Atari, meting out insights on video video games and whether or not they faucet into our “animalistic nature” on the subject of violence in video games. (Spoiler: he’s charmingly candid.). He additionally talks in regards to the ground-breaking Pong, which was renamed to Ping within the UK as a result of phrase ‘pong’ having a distinct that means over the pond 😉
By this level, Nolan had already offered Atari to Warner Communications for a cool US$28 million, pocketing 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 Theatre, the place pizza met arcade video games, pinball and animatronic mice dominated the stage. 🎤🍕
The perfect half? The clip reveals each children and adults fully caught up within the early ’80s arcade craze—a full-blown cultural second dropped at life by the man who mainly invented “enjoyable” as a enterprise mannequin.
📼 Whole time capsule. Whole legend. Whole vibes.
supply: BBC Archive (Fb)
