Father of the Game industry. Period. Started
Atari, made pong (thogh some say he copied it from a designer who helped make magnaxox's odyssey, this has never been proven) and had a hand in creating
the Atari 2600, the first truly influential game system.
I heard that
Nolan bushnell went into an
unemployment office one day and hired eveyone there to work at
atari.