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Robert Smith

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1160 total appearances

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

And it looks like an arcade game.

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

Although there's not really any such thing as arcade games at this point.

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

Yeah.

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

Next to the jukebox.

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

There's a screen and there's controls.

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

Yeah.

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

And there's a place to put coins in.

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

Yeah.

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

Right?

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

The three things you need.

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

They get this company to make 1,500 of the machines, right?

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

It's going to be a thing in the world now.

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

It gets out into the world and...

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

And nobody really wants to play it.

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

Basically because it's not that fun, it seems.

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

It's violating one of the tenets you laid out in your made-up Bushnell's Law, right?

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

You had to have a lot of instructions to play it, is the way I understand it.

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

Yeah, or at least, like, it helps if you understood physics.

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

You don't want to think about physics when you're playing a video game in a bar.

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

Not in a bar, no.