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WELL HELLO DOLLI...If I may be excused a momentary lapse into sexism, there’s a hot number playing the piano bar of the county’s newest nightspot. She has beautiful blue eyes, fiery orange hair and can sing “Summertime1’ like Janis Joplin. That's the good news.And now for the bad news: she’s a bit overweight, has a gap in her smile that would shame Leon Spinks and is known around town as the Hoboken Hippo.Her name is Dolii Dimples and she’s supported in her act by Chuck E. Cheese, Mr. Munch, Pasqually and Jasper T. Jowls. If you’re lucky, a guest star like Sally Sashay (the reigning Queen of Skunk Hock) might drop by for a few numbers.No, I haven’t gone mad. These characters all sprang from the fertile and bizarre imagination of electronics wizard Nolan Bushnell, the 37-year-old genius who changed the course of pinball arcade history with the creation of the video game.That first game was called Computer Space and it led to Pong and, eventually, to every other video game on the market today.But Bushnell is not the type of man to rest on either his laurels or bank account (he sold his video company Atari for $30 million) so he’s started a whole new field to excel in.Bushnell has combined his computer know-how with equally impressive marketing skills to develop a chain of pizza parlor-theaters that he contends is really “Disneyland carried to American families at the local level.Known as Pizza Time Theaters, the outlets combine pizza ehain-quality pizza with video technology and computerized animated characters that sing and dance. Three of the chain’s 10 outlets. (1,000 restaurants are projected nationwide within the next five years) are located in Orange County, the last of which opened this week in La Habra (901 N. Harbor Blvd.).Each restaurant offers 75 arcade games that run on tokens that the management provides when you order a pizza. The kids then run amok while their parents wait for the food, which is just as Bushnell planned it.Bushnell said the idea for the pizza-thealers came to him a few years ago when he was searching for a forum where families could enjoy the arcade games and the animated characters without having to buck the kind of crowd that usually frequents arcades (he must be talking about me since I frequent them often).Anyway, despite all the kids cluttering up the place, it’s a fun restaurant to take the family. And when you’re there, give my love to Doili.
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Santa Ana Orange County Register Evening
Santa Ana, California, US
Fri, May 16, 1980
Page 65
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