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Season 5, Episode 5: Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)

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The Magnavox - Atari's First Game?

I said, you know, using our technology, maybe this would be a fun game. But more than that, I needed a test project for Al because computer space was really complex. He thought it would be way more fun if we cut the paddle up into eight segments. And then each segment, depending on how far away from the middle it was, actually affected the sort of angle that it bounced off of the paddle. Who came up with speeding the ball up as the, as play went on? Again, I think I did.

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