The DeanBeat: Our dream event with Atari father Nolan Bushnell, Respawn’s Vince Zampella and Spider-Man dude Ted Price

I’ve been dreaming about putting on a great game industry event for a long time. We’ve been doing our GamesBeat conferences for a decade now. And they’ve been memorable. But I finally feel like we’ve got something special with GamesBeat Summit 2019. I’m so pleased to announce that one of our speakers will be Nolan Bushnell, cofounder of Atari and the father of video games. He’s going to appear on stage with four of his children in a session dubbed “Growing up Bushnell.”

Our event will take place in Los Angeles at Two Bit Circus, a “micro-amusement park” that is like an arcade meets Ready Player One. Two Bit Circus has significance for the Bushnell family because Nolan’s son, Brent Bushnell, is its co-creator. He has built a place that blends a modern carnival, escape rooms, bars, arcades, and virtual reality experiences into a single entertainment center. He will talk about it in a session with his father on location-based entertainment.