Dr. Robert (Bob) Novella
speaker
1,941 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 19 Sep
Dr. Robert (Bob) Novella’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The first games that were mass produced, though, they weren't as sophisticated.
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So they couldn't do those gravity calculations.
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So they pulled it out.
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And so the gameplay suffered because of that.
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Pong's a totally different beast.
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Yeah, it didn't have gravity, and you were always kind of moving.
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But the gameplay was not there because they didn't have the gravity.
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Pong was a different beast, and that was a fun game to play, whereas Computer Space, to me, I never played it, but it seems, yes, I'd be bored in five seconds from that game.
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Yeah, but you would think something so new like a video game, I would think people would be drawn to it.
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But you need a minimum level of game.
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Well, like who?
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College students.
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I don't know about that.
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Professor Wardrip would disagree with you on that.
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He's like, the gameplay, and even like this guy, let me end with my quote, my final quote here from Professor Nowhere Wardrip.
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He said, without gravity, computer space was using a design that the creators of Space War already knew didn't work.
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Bushnell's story of the gameplay being too complicated for the public is still one of the most often repeated, but as a former Atari employee, Jerry Jessup told the New York Times about computer space, he said, the gameplay was horrible.
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People just didn't like it.
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That's the bottom line.
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Even if it's a new revolutionary technology, it's like, it's still, it's got to be fun or forget it.
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