Robert Smith
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I got a pocket full of quarters and I'm headed for the arcade.
I don't make a lot of money, but I'm spending everything I make.
I didn't look it up.
I remember it.
And if I'm misremembering it, you can tell me.
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Everybody's getting into the video games business now.
Toy companies in particular are looking at this and being like, oh, this is a toy.
So Mattel, Barbie, you know, they make the Intellivision.
Coleco, which around this time is making Cabbage Patch Kids, another 80s shout out.
Coleco makes ColecoVision.
But Atari is winning.
They are dominant.
They have something like 80% market share.
Incredible.
And this is the peak.
This is the moment.
We have finished The Rise, and now we begin The Fall.
The Fall starts with Pac-Man, interestingly.
This huge hit game, this huge hit arcade game.