Evidence receipt / commitment
Published · transcript-backedNolan Bushnell: commitment
15 Oct 2019 Acquired Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)
“We built up two, and these were in wire wraps and they were going to put one on location and I got on the airplane with the other one under my arm with a modulator so I could hook it up to a local TV.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Nolan Bushnell
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- commitment
- Recorded
- 15 Oct 2019
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)
Transcript context
…But if they're impressed and say, “Here's the game, let's see what they think.” Yeah. We built up two, and these were in wire wraps and they were going to put one on location and I got on the airplane with the other one under my arm with a modulator so I could hook it up to a local TV. I went to Bally and Midway and they were not impressed, because in the coin-op business, there had not been a single successful two-player only game. Yeah, there was no AI driving the other paddle at this point.…
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