Nolan Bushnell is back with the Media Bistro
posted May 30th 2005 8:55AM
What do you do after creating Pong and founding Chuck E. Cheese? Combine the two into a Media Bistro of course (the peeps at Mediabistro will probably not be pleased about this). Set to open this fall in Los Angeles, Nolan K. Bushnell is hoping his 300-seat restaurant and bar with "ubiquitous interactive media" will "get gamers out of the house." We fully support this moralistic pursuit after seeing the sallow face of LA-gamer society last week. Two-sided, touch-screen monitors installed at every table will enable two people (or two couples) to play some 70 different video and trivia games (think uWink, not Rockstar) against each other — a section is even reserved for large gaming groups. There is no mention of what the menu will consist of, but we're guessing you'll find gamer classics such as a warm Mountain Dew and Froot Loops starter with a main of fried Bologna au Pringles.
That guy even looks like Chuck E. Cheese.
beat me to it
Bwahahaha! He looks crazy to me ;-)
What do you do after creating Pong and founding Chuck E. Cheese? You create a string of overhyped, failed ventures riding on the coattails of a title you never earned. (Anyone still holding Aristo/PlayNet stock out there?)
Bushnell is a huckster and a fraud.
So basically a bunch of Mega-Touch XL's with a server and some wacky chat crap... Yeah!
Who cares?
No no. Bushnell needs to take heed of Nintendo's management whose rallying cry of late has been "innovate!"
I see no innovation here. Check out DisneyQuest for at least a stab at innovation. Nolan, you want to know more you know where to find me.
why dosen't just put a slew of DSs-sorry no relly good way of saying that-it'd be cheaper and you'd get all the fanboys to come, instead of a few millon six-year-olds and there grand parent who are thrild that they found a game that's simple enough for them to play ;-)
knot_u
Anyone know where exactly in West LA this is supposed to open?