Playing It Again

摘要

THERE ARE PLENTY OF WAYS TO desciibe Nolan Bushnell. Technology visionary. Catalyst of the computer-game industry, Unrelenting entrepreneur with sparkling successes and catastrophic failures. A man who was actually able to create a successful restaurant franchise with the name Chuck E. Cheese. Even maybe a matchmaker. Bushnell, who started the early video firm Atari and imposed Pizza Time Theatre on the masses, credits another of his creations for minting a whole generation of marriages. The pioneering '70s videogame Pong, once ubiquitous in college-town watering holes, gave guys and gals an opening to challenge each other to digital duels on its tabletop black-and-white screens. As a result, he says, "literally thousands of people have told me over the years that they met their wife or husband playing Pong."