Nolan Bushnell

Nolan Key Bushnell (born February 5, 1943) is an American engineer and entrepreneur who founded bothAtari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatrechain of restaurants. Bushnell has been inducted into theVideo Game Hall of Fame and the Consumer Electronics Association Hall of Fame, received the BAFTA Fellowship and the Nations Restaurant News “Innovator of the Year” award, and was named one of Newsweek 's "50 Men Who Changed America." Bushnell has started more than twenty companies, and is one of the founding fathers of the video game industry. He is currently on the board of a company called Anti-Aging Games. His latest venture is as co-founder and chairman of an educational software company called Brainrush, which uses video game technology in educational software, incorporating real brain science, in a way that Bushnell believes will fundamentally change education. Bushnell believes that Brainrush will be his biggest success.