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Interview with Atari founder Nolan Bushnell (spiegel.de)
6 points by byrneseyeview on Oct 29, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



"[Steve Jobs] did Breakout, one of my favorite games. I had the original concept, and he did the execution of it, together with Steve Wozniak."

Wow! Is that common knowledge? That's as surprising to me as Orson Scott Card writing the sword-fighting insults for The Secret of Monkey Island.


What an odd way to start an interview.


I think "Grand Theft Auto" is a horrible game. It's as close to pornography for the game business as you can get

Wrong:

(At bottom) http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/atari2600.htm

http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/egm09.htm




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