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When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine out of somebody, you know, violent games lost the women. Complexity lost the casual gamer.

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Nolan Bushnell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: February 5
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