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Nolan Bushnell’s Virsix Games launches Star Audition party game

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Peter Weddle
February 16, 2021

Peter Weddle

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Nolan Bushnell co-founded Atari in 1972 and launched the video game industry with Pong. But the 78-year-old cofounder of Virsix Games isn’t done yet. Now his new company is launching a Kickstarter campaign for Star Audition, a party game where you act out a script with help from smart speaker technology.

In an interview with GamesBeat, Bushnell said the card game lets you unleash your inner actor or actress by acting out a random faux script using a celebrity characters such as Darth Vader. Your fellow players anonymously vote on how well you perform, giving you a card with tomatoes for a bad job and a roe for the theatrical performance of a lifetime. Whoever does the

By
Peter Weddle
February 16, 2021
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