G4 Invades Bushnell's uWink, Survives
Looks like the folks at G4 took a jaunt over to Nolan Bushnell's new uWink restaurant in Woodland Hills, California the other day, catching the 'restaurant of the future' on opening day.
As they explain: "Alissa Bushnell--who is Nolan's daughter, by the way, and one of the first testers of Pong, so as a videogame-head, you should bown down and kiss her feet--assured us her restaurant is not a cyber cafe full of Counter Strike players. "All the games are casual. None takes longer than 2-3 minutes to play.""
We covered this a little bit the other day, but it's good to get some hands-on info: "Probably the application for all this tech that I was most intrigued with was the group trivia. Table-runners light up with different colors, creating teams who then compete in casual games. Very, very cool." Neat idea - sounds like there will be some more of these opening soon in California.
Comments
Didn't Bushnell kick his then-infant daughter out of her bedroom to turn it into the Pong factory?
Posted by: Chris K. | October 18, 2006 12:23 PM
The story goes that he kicked his two-year-old daughter out of the bedroom to make an office, in which he developed Computer Space, his first game (predating Pong by two years). This was an arcade version of the mainframe-based game Spacewar. He had seven children total, so I'm not certain which daughter this was. If this was the daughter, she would have been just four when testing Pong, so that seems unlikely.
Posted by: Michael | October 18, 2006 8:34 PM