Bushnell founded the Catalyst Technologies Venture Capital Group, one of the first incubators. The Catalyst Group companies included Androbot,
Etak, Cumma,
Axlon and many more. Axlon launched many consumer and consumer electronic products successfully, most notably
AG Bear, a bear that mumbled/echoed a child's words back to him/her. Axlon was largely sold to
Hasbro. Etak was the first company to digitize the maps of the world, ultimately providing the back bone for
google maps,
mapquest.com, and other navigation systems. Etak was sold to
Rupert Murdoch in the 1980s.
In 1984, Bushnell once again entered the video game business, when he founded
Sente Games. (
Sente is the
Japanese term for the initiative or control in
Go, Bushnell's favorite game).
Bally/Midway agreed to be Sente's distributor; the list of published Sente titles includes the popular one-on-one hockey game,
Hat Trick (1984). In 1988 and 1989, Bushnell operated
Bots, Inc., which developed a system of autonomous pizza delivery robots for
Little Caesar's Pizza.
Bushnell's most recent company is
uWink, which has gone through several failed iterations including a touch screen kiosk designer and an online Entertainment Systems network. The latest version (announced in 2005) is a new interactive entertainment restaurant called the uWink Media Bistro, whose concept builds off his Chuck E. Cheese venture. Guests may order food and drinks via screens at each table, through which guests may also enjoy games, movie trailers and short videos. (Bushnell had pioneered this concept through Bots nearly 20 years earlier.) The first Bistro has opened in
Woodland Hills,
California on
October 16,
2006.
In 1991, Bushnell endorsed the
Commodore International CDTV.
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