Chuck E. Cheese’s Video Game Origins

Originally founded by the creator of Atari: Nolan Bushnell

Ryan Fan
SUPERJUMP
Published in
4 min readAug 9, 2020

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“It was my pet project. I started it inside Atari. My objective was to vertically integrate the market. We were selling coin-operated games at about $1,500 or $2,000 a pop.” — Nolan Bushnell, founder of Chuck E. Cheese.

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Ryan Fan
SUPERJUMP

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