Nolan Bushnell "Spacewar!" game on DEC mainframe computers. Bushnell worked at Lagoon Amusement Park for many years while attending college. He was made manager of the games department two seasons after starting. He was particularly interested in the midway arcade games, where theme park customers would have to use skill and luck to ultimately achieve the goal and win the prize. He liked the concept of getting people curious about the game and from there getting them to pay the fee in order to play. He would use his love for games and theme parks to help launch both Atari and Chuck
Nolan Bushnell is also one of the founders of Modal VR a company that develops a portable large-scale VR system for enterprises to train e.g. security forces. Nolan is on the advisory board of Anti-AgingGames.com and was a Co-Founder of the company, featuring online memory, concentration, and focus games for healthy people over 35. Bushnell's most recent company is BrainRush, a company that uses video game technology in educational software where he is Founder, CEO and Chairman. The company was venture capital funded in 2012. It is based on the idea that many curriculum lessons can be turned into mini-games. Developers can