Jacob Goldstein
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Everybody had the Atari set.
I'm Jacob Goldstein.
And I'm Robert Smith.
And this is Business History.
What's it about, Jacob?
Today on the show, how a company can invent something that changes the future, changes all of culture, and wind up in utter failure.
I feel like today's show is like walking through my childhood.
We started with Atari, and our next step is... An amusement park that I initially called The Lagoon in Utah.
And you pointed out...
It is called Lagoon.
And you know this because?
Because I grew up in Utah and went there once a year, and it was the best day of the year.
It's an amusement park, right?
You play games, there are rides, you eat a lot of fried salty foods.
It was amazing.
And just in case you have an image of someone who's a carny working the milk jug games, this was not Nolan Bushnell.
You realize that games are psychology.
Yeah.
You know, it's storytelling and psychology.
And this would, of course, come in useful.