Nolan Bushnell, the father of video games, teams up with Spil Games to make mobile games.
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Atari founder Nolan Bushnell teams up with Spil Games to make mobile games

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Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari and the father of modern video games, just can’t get enough of gaming. So he has teamed up with Netherlands-based publisher Spil Games to publish a series of mobile games.

Bushnell is 73 years old, but he is still young at heart and has gaming in his blood. In an interview with GamesBeat, he said, “I’m always designing games.”

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.