Nolan Bushnell was one of the most influential game designers of his time. He is responsible for the success at attire and the creation of Chuckey chesses. He has made a variety of games one of the most notable also his first game was pong. This man was helped lead video games into what they are today because of what he made them popular in the first place. in the 1960 Bushnell studied electrical engineering at the university of Utah. There he when to Steven Russell’s seminar spacewar that is where his intrest in video game started. He was extreamly interested in videogames after that and he wasnted to run his own mechanical arcade. His first game that he made while he was a student was computer space in 1971 but it wasn’t as big of a success as his later inventions. Later he and ted Dabney formed a company in 1972 called Atari. There he made pong and later the company made the first consol the magncox odyssey.
Nolen bushhenell was boren on febuary fith nietien fourty three. He graduated from
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His first game was computer space this game has the player shoot space ships in space. This was just his first project and wasn’t very sucsessful at the time. The game that started the trend of arcades was pong. Pong was a sensatnioal hit this game had two player compeet angst one another trying to scoer on them. The second big game the made was called gotcha. Gotcha is a two player maze game where one player trys to catch the other when going into a maze. This was also one of the first contriversal games not for the game play but for the controls. The controls had rather pink joysticks that where kind of spherical so the game recived the title “the boob game”. The last game Nolan bushnell made was breakout. Breakout was a game where you played a bar that bounces a ball agnist bricks to gain points. You lose when the ball goes past the player’s