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"That's right, fall in one pit and start over from the beginning! Well, thankfully my buddies practically tied me to my chair until I put in extra lives and I'm glad they did."
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"I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still be in the video game business."
Business
"The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their time playing the game rather than writing letters."
Time
"We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company."
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"Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects."
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"My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned."
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"One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge."
Life
"That's right, fall in one pit and start over from the beginning! Well, thankfully my buddies practically tied me to my chair until I put in extra lives and I'm glad they did."
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"Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood the marketing and promotion of artists as well as products. So the video game business went from absolutely zero designer credit to something approaching rock star promotion."
Business
"We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the "writing style" of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not be disappointed."
Environment
"Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair."
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"You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel."
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"Three times during the show the drums are lifted over the audience - I go up and out, right, left and back."
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"He ended it. He just said he didn't - he - well, what he said was that he didn't feel it was right, and you know, I mean that's - because he ended it, he'd probably have to be the one to answer that."
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"I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state."
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"I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant."
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"I think the Clintons are brilliant. I've never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They're too smart for Washington."
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"You can talk about anything if you go about it the right way, which is never malicious."
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"So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it."
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"It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right."
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"Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong."
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