Also, I should note that the various Intellivision developer interviews floating around are an interesting contrast. Not sure if it's L.A. vs the Valley or just Nolan's freewheeling Atari vs. a division of a decades-old toy company, but the Inty programmers were quite a bit more straight-laced. Booze instead of drugs, never to the Atari levels of excess, and of course infinite practical jokes. It sounds a lot like the modern game industry, except with female programmers. (Whoever figures out why girls freely went into CS in the 70s and stopped abruptly in the mid 80s will make a lot of HR departments very happy).
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