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Re: Comments from Bill Pitts and Nolan Bushnell about the start of the arcade videogame industry
10/12/10 05:16 PM





http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/pitts-recalls-making-americas-first-coin-op


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Bushnell also shared his experience of the first Atari Pong production line: "They were horrible. We had a bunch of heroin addicts and things like that. They were stealing our TVs," he said. "We were young and dumb is what I like to say. But we learned quickly."
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It's funny reading that section of the book these days regarding the black and white tvs. Back then, even those tv sets were expensive products at the time.







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* Comments from Bill Pitts and Nolan Bushnell about the start of the arcade videogame industry ranger_lennier 10/12/10 02:06 PM
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