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Nolan Bushnell invested in Chuck E. Cheese with his Atari money. The animatronics he helped to introduce are dated now and were originally pioneered by Walt Disney Imagineering, but one can feel their influence on
Star Wars' famous Mos Eisley cantina scene from 1977...later on (ROTJ, 1983) there was, of course, Jabba's Max Rebo Band too.
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PCs sprang fairly directly from the Atari company when Steve Wozniak stole parts.
home videogame consoles were first made by Magnavox with their Odyssey and Odyssey3 systems, but it was the Atari 2600 VCS that really first had broad appeal.
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