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Robert Smith

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

Like one example he gave later that is dear to my heart is this.

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

So there is that game where there's these like metal milk jugs, I guess, just like metal bottles.

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

And there's whatever, four of them or six of them, and they're stacked up.

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

And you have like a softball or something.

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

You throw it at it and try andβ€” You're trying to win a stuffed animal.

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

Yeah, maybe a giant stuffed animal or something.

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

If you knock down all the milk bottles, right?

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

And it turns out, he talked about this later, that like half of the bottles are heavy and half of the bottles are light.

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

And so if you put the light bottles on the bottom, it's really easy to knock them down, right?

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

If you put the heavy bottles on the bottom, it's really hard to knock them down.

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

Physics.

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

and so he had this move he would make when, like, a bunch of high school students would come.

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

There'd be, like, you know, the captain of the football team and then, like, the water boy kind of trailing along behind.

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

Okay, I was more the water boy?

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

Yes, you knew that, yeah.

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

He'd get the water boy to play, and he'd set it up the easy way so that it's really easy to knock him down.

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

The water boy knocks him down, gets the big prize.

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

Everybody cheers, yeah.