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Jacob Goldstein

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
239 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

$150,000 is what they order.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

This is a whole different league and a whole different business coming into video games.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

Yeah, a million times a second.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

Expect something a little more creative from Bushnell, but maybe he made it.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

Maybe he was the first guy to say this.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

But luckily the geniuses at a giant media company know how to run a video game company, right?

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

That's after the break.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

And it is a huge hit.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

And this is a smart thing that a big media company can do, recognize basically franchises, right, that are popular at the pizza place, which is where I played it, Red Banjo Pizza in Park City, Utah, and then get that into a home game, right, make money off of the name, and that's great.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

Yes.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

Pac-Man fever.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

Because part of the Pac-Man appeal was that it was a very fast-moving game.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

Like, you had to turn on a dime.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

Like, you had these whole systems you had when you played in the arcades, and you wanted to use those systems at home.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

And if there's a little bit of a lag, it doesn't really quite work as well.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

Yeah, it's not fun enough, right?

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

Wait, E.T.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

never made anything worse.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

He was so adorable.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

Yeah, yeah.