PortalOne players will square off against Nolan Bushnell in Atari's Breakout.
PortalOne players will square off against Nolan Bushnell in Atari's Breakout.
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PortalOne’s release of Atari’s Breakout pits players against Atari cofounder Nolan Bushnell

PortalOne has turned multiplayer games into game shows, and now it’s enabling players to see if they can beat Atari cofounder Nolan Bushnell at Atari’s Breakout.

In this hybrid game-show platform, celebrities like Bushnell show what they can do to get a high score in an arcade-style game. Then the players have 24 hours to beat the score, compete with each other, and ultimately win prizes.

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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.