Wiinyt

Atari var et af de grundlæggende firmaer inden for computerspil da det blev oprettet i 1972 af Ted Dabney og ingeniøren Nolan Bushnell og netop Nolan Bushnell er således positiv over for Wii’en. I et interview lavet af siden Next Generation udtaler Nolan Bushnell:

I think the Wii by Nintendo is getting games that once again are fun for people who don’t want to make a career out of figuring out how to run a 47-button controller,” said Bushnell. “I think that the business right now should be much, much bigger than it is. If it were evenly spread over all demographics and age groups, it’d be huge. But it’s not. It’s basically an 18 to 28 year-old male dominated business of about 15 million. That’s where most of the traffic is. Casual games on the net add to that, but they’re all network-based.

Nolan er altså vild med den lette tilgang man finder i mange Wii spil, hvilket gør det mere naturligt for mange at spille computerspil, i stil med et af Atari’s helt store spil, klassikeren Pong.

Nolan Bushnell kan iøvrigt opleves i form af Leonardo DiCaprio, i en kommende film om netop Atari og Nolan Bushnell.

Tippet af Hejan