73f2f1 No.14263262
Nothing unexpected from GDC, but amusing regardless. tl;dr Founder of Atari was going to be recognized as an industry pioneer, Twitter gets triggered, GDC cucks. Bushnell cucks later too.
http://archive.is/AkXA8
>The organizers of the Game Developers Choice Awards announced today that they have rescinded the Pioneer Award for Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, and announced the award will not be given this year entirely.
>The decision follows a day of outcry after GDC organizers announced that Bushnell, 74, had been tapped for the GDCA’s lifetime achievement honor. News accounts and histories over the past several years have documented a history of workplace misconduct and sexist behavior toward women by Bushnell, during Atari’s early days.
>In a statement this morning, GDC said its awards committee “made the decision not to give out a Pioneer Award for this year’s event, following additional feedback from the community.
>“They believe their picks should reflect the values of today’s game industry and will dedicate this year’s award to honor the pioneering and unheard voices of the past.”
>The Pioneer Award is for “individuals who developed a breakthrough technology, game concept, or gameplay design at a crucial juncture in video game history” according to its official site. Nine have been conferred since 2008, none of them women.
>Bushnell founded Atari in 1972 and installed the first coin-operated video game, Pong, shortly thereafter. He presided over the company’s rise to dominate the early generation of home console gaming before selling it off and founding what is today the Chuck E. Cheese line of restaurants.
>But after GDC announced the honor, many developers called attention to profiles of Bushnell in those times, where he is depicted as conducting company business from a hot tub and indulging in an aura of power and money.
5d20cb No.14263338
They couldn't even use this as an excuse to give it to some legbeard cunt? What a waste.
cafe11 No.14263355
>Industry is founded on sexism
>Industry wouldn't even exist if he didn't
>Ride the fruits of his labor and ignore him entirely
>Proceed to bitch about we wuz kangz, and in a true show of leftist hyperbole, simultaneously accuse sins of the father, while using it to further their own agenda, and then in the same breath deny that it ever occurred
Wew
8acd5c No.14263377
>>14263262
>let's give this gaming pioneer award to a pioneer in gaming
>actually let's not because (not videogames)
5d20cb No.14263383
>>14263355
The part that gets me is that they just came out and practically slandered the guy while hiding behind the facade of a credible institution. Notice how they wait until after all the #metoo shit to even consider giving the fucking founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese's a Pioneer Award.
85be41 No.14263411
>where he is depicted as conducting company business from a hot tub and indulging in an aura of power and money
Modern developers can't even compete with their run down cardboard rooms and plastic chairs.
3333dc No.14263412
>>14263262
I think it's time to institute a society based on the Gor novels.
184036 No.14263423
>>14263262
Brianna Wu is now on this guys Wikipedia page. Let that sink in for a minute.
cb05f4 No.14263424
>>14263262
I've read this 3 times, and I'm still confused. Did he not get the award for pioneering gaming because he's a businessman and not a gamer?
8acd5c No.14263428
>>14263424
>because he's a businessman
As if that ever stopped anyone.
5d20cb No.14263432
>>14263411
There's also a story about him telling a bunch of investors to go fuck themselves and when he sold the company, he practically told them "here, good luck. assholes". He knew 1983 would happen.
509b7d No.14263491
>>14263412
Read that second title as "Transman of Gor".
5d20cb No.14263511
>>14263491
"Gor" would be one of the words I'd use to describe a transman.
e71e28 No.14263559
>>14263411
>where he is depicted as conducting company business from a hot tub
Seems ineficient, but still encapsulates a dream scenario of anyone who ever owned a business of any kind
>and indulging in an aura of power and money
Entirely subjective. All this tells me is that the writer doesn't know the subject he's writing about
4136a1 No.14263574
>GDC cucks Bushnell
was he backpack cucked though?
385dc2 No.14263626
Bushnell was never much involved in making good games anyway. Where's the Pioneer Award for Eugene Jarvis? Now that's a real nigga.
385dc2 No.14263646
36 years later and still a legend. You see this baby? TWO FUCKING JOYSTICKS. The absolute madman. This is pioneering.
0ced77 No.14263695
>>14263262
why would he want one,especially one by some hipster faggots?Does he have a shortage of paperweights to put on top of his money piles so that a stiff breeze won't carry them away or something?
3333dc No.14263726
>>14263491
It seems that our minds have been warped by this current reality.
8acd5c No.14263736
>>14263574
Is that hotwheels getting backpack cucked?
67bee8 No.14263745
>>14263626
Good games wouldn't exist without Bushnell's machines.
385dc2 No.14263771
>>14263745
Pure nonsense. Did Bushnell invent any of the microchips or PCBs used by Atari?
f1e08f No.14263784
>>14263646
I actually had the chance to play that machine a few times. That game is trippy.
d487ee No.14263796
>>14263262
gdca is a fucking joke
they gave reward to fucking hello games?
who?
those money-grabbing asshole that made no mans sky
f1e08f No.14263809
>>14263796
>gdca is a fucking joke
f1e08f No.14263812
>>14263809
>gdca is a fucking joke
67bee8 No.14263814
>>14263771
No, but the guy who made Pong's hardware didn't know shit about video games before being contracted by Bushnell. So, without him, those people wouldn't be making video games.
9cad99 No.14263886
>>14263262
>where he is depicted as conducting company business from a hot tub and indulging in an aura of power and money
I fail to see the problem.
e52d11 No.14263915
>>14263886
A white man enjoying his success is problematic.
87995e No.14263950
>>14263262
>award for being a pioneer in a budding tech industry
>rescind video game award for something unrelated to video games
Well I guess only the 100% pure, virgin saints of the world can ever receive recognition for anything. Hilarious considering twitter obsessed feminists are almost always truly horrible, mean spirited cunts with skeletons packed deep in their closets.
06db6d No.14264015
>>14263809
Your third pic has no archive and is likely a shop.
4c5541 No.14264052
>GDC
Doubt Bushnell cares. Not like the award cares any weight.
413e81 No.14264157
>>14263511
Are you mocking my pronouns, shitlord?!?
b8aa68 No.14264158
>>14263432
>He knew 1983 would happen.
That may have been David Rosen, the Sega co-founder who also languished under dealing with movie studio ownership. Arcade owners turned away their system that simplified the process of installing new games for arcade operators, and the rest is history. They were then sold in 1983 to Japanese ownership for the very first time in the company's 58-year-history.
Rosen outlived everyone at Gulf+Western along with CSK executive Isao Okawa and resigned in 1996 along with a lot of other people at Sega of America who were responsible for making them a household name.
b8aa68 No.14264254
>>14263262
>Nothing unexpected from GDC, but amusing regardless. tl;dr Founder of Atari was going to be recognized as an industry pioneer,
People already know him as an industry pioneer. He co-designed the very first arcade game, left the guys who did that because they didn't believe in the business of computer games and then co-founded Atari. Over the five years leading to his sale of the company to Warner Communications, he instituted the company policy that none of Atari's games should be the same, a rule that was broken only three times for the first 20 years of the company's existence. Atari also partnered with Masaya Nakamura and Namco and their distribution of Breakout in Japan effectively kickstarted the computer games business there. After selling out to Warner's, he co-founded Chuck E. Cheese and brought accessible arcade games to children at a time when home computers cost what would be $5,000 today and most arcades were in bars or pool halls.
He's a bum today, but everyone here owes something they appreciate about computer games to Nolan Bushnell and the way he did things while he was a business hotshot for most of the 1970s and early '80s.
16936e No.14264274
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
Speaking of Chuck E. Cheese, I love watching old footage like this. I probably watched hours worth of 80s Japan and NY among other things.
1239fa No.14267908
>>14263822
>third pic
Holy mother of cock, these lefties can't even make a proper PowerPoint presentation. They really are programmed to be bad at everything they do.
b71eed No.14267914
>>14263396
You can thank John Flynt.
e43d77 No.14267968
>>14267914
Aren't they trying to be a congress man?
2b6a6c No.14267997
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>14263726
You did this anon? Not bad!
>>14263262
Fucking great! Gaming as it once was is pretty much dead. GDC stands as everything that made this whole industry not only a shitshow, but a savage travesty of once it could be. Most inovation is dead, unscrupulous money grabbing, even from governments, and a desire for self censoring that would make Papa Stalin proud.
Be persona non grata from the GDC should be something that most developers worth their salt should aspire to.
Justo so peple remember what kind of stuff Atari was capable off.
And while he wasn't involved on these games, it is interesting to see how crazy Atari could be. If, at least, they hadn't done that stupid thing with the ayy…
5d20cb No.14268010
>>14263950
> with skeletons packed deep in their closets.
They aren't even in the closet half the time because they will gladly admit to doing fucking up stuff in the right company.
46c231 No.14268190
>>14263262
>Bushnell founded Atari in 1972 and installed the first coin-operated video game, Pong, shortly thereafter.
AKSHULLY, Bushnell's coin-op Computer Space is a little bit older.
16c962 No.14268208
Hooktube embed. Click on thumbnail to play.
Nolan did an interview with Retro Hour if anyone's interested, especially concerning his feud with Ralph (((Baer))).
Unfortunately he also makes some dumb remarks about GTA and violent games at the end, but it's a fascinating interview nonetheless.
9cc357 No.14268270
>>14268208
One of the reasons why Tom Kalinske eventually abandoned Sega was how violent videogames were becoming more prevalent in the industry. It seems that a lot of these old industry types are very conservative and rather prudish when it comes to that type of content.
5d20cb No.14268290
>>14268270
>prudish
No, they were afraid of video games not being family friendly anymore because they saw it primarily as a public thing in arcades.
16c962 No.14268385
>>14268270
I know he had a problem with violent games, but Tom left because of SoJ's micro-management, with the Saturn being the breaking point. He left specifically after releasing Nights Into Dreams, because there was no way to market that game as a replacement for Sonic and expect it to sell millions of units.
>It seems that a lot of these old industry types are very conservative
Take a look Tom's twitter.
781f7e No.14268432
>>14267908
I wouldn't be surprised of the reason why these PowerPoint slides are so wordy (or just straight 1 to 1 transcripts of what they are saying) is because the slides will get archived by GDC while the speeches themselves won't get recorded.
I remember being told with PP format to keep your main points down to at least 6 word sentences while the speaker explains them in depth. At least the slides/text contrast easily with the black text on white background, at least they didn't fuck that up with say, dark text on dark background I still remember many PP over the years of uni that make that surprising mistake.
0f62a5 No.14268498
Hooktube embed. Click on thumbnail to play. >Watch GDC level design vid because board
>Starts out with the history of level design progression of tools, how job applications have changed
>Knee-jerk turn into shilling post-modernism
>Talks about how (((someone))) wanted to level Paris and put in public housing as if it was a good thing
>Randomly starts ranting about how the wall memorial was made by an Asian and evil white people tried to shut her down
I stopped there. It was so off topic, but I'm fucking amazed at how cancerous these devs have become.
3333dc No.14268539
>>14267997
>You did this anon?
No I just found it while searching for a Gor cover.
08c5c2 No.14268663
>>14263817
If No Man's Sky wins an award and no-one is around to receive it, does it win GOTY?
0a1fde No.14268667
>Fall for the game design student meme
>Professors recklessly shill GDC tickets to students every year
>Haven't hear a peep from them this year
>MFW realizing they've probably completely disconnected from me, and I didn't even have to reveal my power level for it I've had it on hard boycott ever since Sarkeesian got the Ambassador award
Sometimes things just work out perfectly.
5d20cb No.14268679
>>14268667
Don't worry, you've already been blacklisted.
0b12a9 No.14268682
>>14263262
What a bunch of incompetent, unprofessional clowns.
0f62a5 No.14268737
>>14268679
I sometimes wonder if it'd be a legitimate marketing strategy to go to their events and pretend to be one of the clique for the easy coverage. Then when they start making political "bend the knee" demands, just ignore them until they turn hostile. I get the feeling simply ignoring and cold shouldering them would provoke them to double down and make a huge shit storm by doing absolutely nothing. There is a good chance they'll just do the same though. It makes me wonder how many indies they've lured in only to attention starve for not being one of them. Then there's the possibility of actually make a good fucking game people would want to play in itself would piss them off and getting you shunned to.
Even in the shitstorm scenario or riding off the free coverage I could be greatly over-estimating their usefulness, because at GDC I recall one of them even openly admitted their clique has no power over sales.
5d20cb No.14268815
>>14268737
You can't really pretend to be one of them because they make sure they have leverage over you before letting anywhere near them.
0a1fde No.14268855
>>14268679
You're probably right. Honestly, nothing of real value was lost, since a good chunk of them have no real influence outside of the notorious indie cliques. The whole program has yet to produce a good game that I'm aware of, whether that's a result of shitty concept shitty execution, or a combination thereof. To the point where despite a multiple of higher-ranking IGDA members being professors there, I have yet to see a single student game get nominated for a Best Student Game award at the GDC awards. As it stands, they seem to rely heavily on government grants or shitty crowdfunding projects.
>>14268815
More or less. You'd have to put on a very, VERY convincing setup.
0f62a5 No.14268864
>>14268815
Damn. If that's true they're more cut-throat than I thought.
2f9a4e No.14268883
>>14268864
They disguise it as becoming friends with you and taking you out places, what's really going on is getting you drunk and milking you for information they can either print for profit or use to blackmail.
5d20cb No.14268886
>>14268855
I honestly hate that they don't make any money because it means they just steal more government cheese that could've potentially be used for actually useful things. Of course, there's no guarantee they wouldn't be doing that regardless.
>>14268864
They are quite literally CIAlite style agents tasked with disrupting and subverting Hollywood's biggest competition. You ever notice how further in bed a company is with Hollywood or how "cinemtic" they are in general there's less bitching from feminists regarding it? Well, except for Kojima but that's because he Japanese.
5d20cb No.14268892
>>14268883
That's some of the more tame shit they pull all things considered.
0f62a5 No.14268903
>>14268892
>>14268883
Are there tweets of black mail being leaked or something? The most I see is false sexual harassment claims.
>>14268886
> Well, except for Kojima but that's because he Japanese.
Isn't Kojima in bed with Hollywood?
cc4a26 No.14268916
Wasn't the industry started by conservatives? I read long ago that most of the money in the early days of gaming came from conservative people who owned businesses and most were from NY or somewhere up north. So the SJWs are in for a rude awakening, and who makes them the judge and jury for these awards anyways, they are trying to turn the gaming industry as if it were hollywood which is ran by jews.
5d20cb No.14268926
>>14268903
>Isn't Kojima in bed with Hollywood?
In the same way a cuck is in bed with his wife while she fucks Jamal, yes. He's never going to get any influence there no matter how much me sucks them off and it's painful seeing how oblivious he is.
f2641d No.14268934
0a1fde No.14268944
>>14268886
Thanks to the grants academia in general gets, they're probably going to get Government money regardless. Some time ago, my program got a grant from the state. Unfortunately, I couldn't find much information on it, the most I could find was that the area's state rep pushed for the funding, and also apparently got some money from Microsoft, who is a major cosponsor of the program. On a somewhat related note, I wouldn't be surprised if government was buying into the gamification meme to some degree.
e3b1ac No.14269423
>>14263412
>Anything For
Just the dumbest shit and even shittier fanbase
4f2ffc No.14269442
>>14267968
Yes. I hope he is destroyed in the polls.
e58789 No.14269482
>>14263412
>WTF is Gor
>Googles it up
Huh I am surprised liberals haven't found out the existence of this series.
082f99 No.14269630
>>14269578
Is this a metaphor for male control over women or something?
082f99 No.14269651
>>14269482
They have; they just get off to it and are terrified of anyone finding out. It’s what they want most of all.
2fe4d5 No.14271878
>>14263262
>>14263411
>>14263886
>depicted as conducting company business from a hot tub
This sort of thing was a common gag at the time. Pic related features early Sierra staff, including Roberta Williams.
e46c52 No.14271885
867686 No.14271903
>>14263262
>“When I arrived there on the first day, I was dressed in a business suit and a tie and I met Nolan Bushnell. He had a T-shirt on. The T-shirt said: ‘I love to fuck.’” Kassar said. “That was my introduction to Atari.”
The man's too based to associate with these legitimate cuckolds.
b2beff No.14272673
>>14264274
>old chuck e. cheese
man you really see how the times have changed.
44c6b6 No.14273402
>>14271885
These faggots denying him his award would literally remove him from history if they could. I unironically look forward to the next civil war.
53f2f2 No.14273451
All those awards are useless and means nothing.
Circlejerk awards are empty praises given between the same impotent soyboys that compose the mainstream media's journos.
Worthless and without any importance (as the journos and award "winners") if they are not given by Gamers themselves.
0f62a5 No.14273483
>>14273451
>All those awards are useless and means nothing.
It's like the rock and roll hall of fame adding rappers. People are baffled by the audacity. Not to mention GDC is constantly scheming to wriggle its way into a position of authority with all the connections they make from trust fund kids.
06db6d No.14273806
>>14268934
I stand corrected. However, the picture is still likely a joke photoshop. Look carefully at the angle the text is tilted at. This is further supported by the fact the user deleted that tweet and posted this one.
http://archive.is/rENSP