DiCaprio Plays With Atari

Oscar nominated actor Leonardo DiCaprio is scheduled to play another American business mogul on a screen in Hollywood. It's been years since his portrait of the infamous (although some argue famous) Howard Hughes in The Aviator. Now he moves on the portrait of one of the founding fathers of video games, as well as one of industry's first millionaire Nolan Bushnell in a film entitled Atari.

The film will focus on the development of Bushnell to be one of 50 people who changed America (as indicated by the TIME magazine). With a handful of different companies under his belt, his greatest success and well-known company is the pioneer of video games Atari inc. Bushnell founded Atari after its huge success translated by Pong, a simple game where two players compete with a "range" and try to hit a pixel which is supposed to be a "ball" to the opponent.

Although this May is not the least impressive by today's standards, he caused a certain phenomenon in the early half of the seventies. There was even a shortage of quarters over a period of time through this game in 1977, the company issued Bushnell Atari 2600, which sent parents a flamboyant trail nearest store or shop equipment. Some time later, Bushnell sold his company to Time Warner suits for an incredible $ 28 million. After the rest is a historic event.

Hopefully, there will be few cases or cameos in the film that touches on some interesting anecdotes about the life of Bushnell. Both Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were used to Atari for some time, and Bushnell is the one who decided to mix the love of America for the fast-food greasy and their new found love of video games, at the time, in order to identify with Chuck E. Cheese. The Family / Arcade chain has grown to 200 restaurants, Bushnell and became a millionaire in good faith by the age of 39.

The film could not come at a better time. In an era where video games are preparing to compete with figures blockbuster film, and how it is becoming a standard culturally accepted that geeks are cool, the history of life Bushnell May inspire and meet an entire generation of proto-geeks, even self-proclaimed. Ya just five years before the tongue-in-cheek "geek revolution," I doubt it would not have been a success unless they have been released some time around now.

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