Robert Smith
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Podcast Appearances
Atari doesn't make it, so they license it.
Figure, like, worked for Space Invaders.
It'll work for Pac-Man.
They make 12 million cartridges.
of Pac-Man despite the fact that only 10 million people own Atari 2600.
They think this game is going to be so popular that everyone with an Atari will buy it and 2 million more people will buy Atari consoles to play it.
Doesn't happen.
The game kind of sucks, just technically doesn't play as well.
There is this thing where a video game has to be really fun to be a big hit, and Pac-Man for the 2600 is not fun enough.
So it's starting to get bad, and it's going to get worse.
And the reason it gets worse, which I love, is E.T., the extraterrestrial.
It's not his fault.
Ouch.
So E.T.
comes out in the summer of 82.
It's a giant hit.
Holds up, by the way.
At least it held up.
I watched it, I don't know, eight years ago with my children.
Made Reese's Pieces, a big hit, too.