Robert Smith

speaker

1,476 appearances 11 recordings 6 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 8 Jul

Robert Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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He knows what's happening.

At least he knows in retrospect.

And he respects it.

It's like the Midway, right?

It's like Steve Ross is like the Carney.

And Bushnell is the Rube.

He's the Rube.

He's getting played at a much higher level.

Respect.

And he respects it.

So the next morning, the morning after the screening, Bushnell agreed to sell Atari to Ross, to Warner, for $28 million.

And Bushnell stayed on, kept running the company as he had been.

And now he has the capital to work on this console that, you know, we will eventually know as the Atari 2600.

It had the stick of joy.

A literal stick of joy.

One joystick.

The orange button, one button that you usually would fire or jump were the things it would do.

Yeah, so fast.

Not just a knob.

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