Past Forward: Farewell, My Animatronic Friends

In an attempt to vertically integrate the video-arcade market, Nolan Bushnell opened the Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theatre in San Jose, Calif., in 1977. Bushnell had cofounded Atari, the company that created Pac-Man and Pong, and so he knew the economics of coin-operated games. He didn't want to just produce the games; he wanted to collect the quarters, too.

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IEEE Spectrum
Published
2024-12-01
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https://doi.org/10.1109/mspec.2024.10779336
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Architecture, Design, and Social History
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Past Forward: Farewell, My Animatronic Friends

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Past Forward: Farewell, My Animatronic Friends

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Abstract

In an attempt to vertically integrate the video-arcade market, Nolan Bushnell opened the Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theatre in San Jose, Calif., in 1977. Bushnell had cofounded Atari, the company that created Pac-Man and Pong, and so he knew the economics of coin-operated games. He didn't want to just produce the games; he wanted to collect the quarters, too.

IEEE SpectrumVol. 61(12)
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Architecture, Design, and Social History
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