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I've always been a tech-head.

Nolan Bushnell

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Nolan Bushnell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: February 5
Computer Scientist
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All schools will end up using game metrics in the future.
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In the early days of the video game business, everybody played. The question is, what happened? My theory - and I think it's pretty well borne out - is that in the '80s, games got gory, and that lost the women. And then they got complex, and that lost the casual gamer.
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My perception is that I'm a guy who really does a lot of homework surrounding any project that I do.
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In 1989, SimCity introduced an entirely new brand of game play.
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I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.
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People hate to and will not read instructions.
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Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.
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We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.
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In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million. I still didn't feel too bad that I had turned down a one-third ownership of Apple - although I was beginning to think it might turn out to be a mistake.
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I always loved both 'Breakout' and 'Asteroids' - I thought they were really good games. There was another game called 'Tempest' that I thought was really cool, and it represented a really hard technology. It's probably one of the only colour-vector screens that was used in the computer graphics field at that time.
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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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I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.
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Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.
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The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.
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Hire for passion and intensity there is training for everything else.
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I'm glad to see the casual game play coming back now on the Internet, games that aren't violent, that aren't complex that you can sit down and you can have some fun.
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