Nolan Bushnell re-joins Atari

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Nolan Bushnell re-joins Atari

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Apparently Atari founder Nolan Bushnell has ended his recent revisit with game development, as the publisher announced today the addition of Bushnell to its executive board alongside "online entrepreneur" Tom Virden. This is the second executive acquisition announcement that Atari has made in recent days, with John Burns, former European head of EA's online publishing, joining up just last week. The company has said it's focusing on moving towards an online-based business, and today's appointments will be overseeing that transition with the rest of the Audit Committee (a.k.a. the executive board).

"I am very excited to be reacquainted with Atari at a time when it is poised to make interesting strides in key growth areas of the games industry," Bushnell said. "The company and its iconic brands have always been important to me, and I look forward to further guiding them at the board level."

Meanwhile, Atari has also announced the resignations of David Gardner, former CEO and director at Infogrames, and Phil Harrison, former Atari president turned board member. Happy trails!

Update: An Atari rep got back to us, confirming that Bushnell and Virden will be filling the positions left open by Harrison and Gardner.

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/19/nolan ... ari-board/
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Kinda mixed feelings about this one. Not sure what to say really.
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Same here. I don't really care much either way, but it pisses me off the way some people act as though Bushnell never did anything at all for videogaming. I got into a bit of a flamewar over at DP because of it.

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^That's pretty ridiculous, even though Bushnell HAS been full of sh*t at times (like with stuff he said about Ralph Baer and all). He definitely has an attitude and/or ego about certain things but not doing anything for the video game world is nonsense.
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I personally take a positive outlook on this. While Nolan isn't perfect, he did a lot for video games. He didn't invent them, but he made them popular. At this point, Atari is only a shadow of its former self. They have nothing to lose by this, and hopefully they will gain something out of it.
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