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▶ 18:10 Chuck Surack You know, they have a, an MCI tape recorder, they have a, uh, an Atari

▶ 1:52 Guy Raz Steve, you grew up in Hawaii, and then you, you went to college on the East Coast, and then went into marketing for a while and consulting, and you ended up working on a product that let you download, like, Atari games through a telephone…

▶ 2:44 Guy Raz There were powerful companies like Atari claiming rights to the game, and executives at Nintendo who weren't convinced that Tetris was a gamble worth taking.
▶ 25:04 Henk Rogers So, yeah, we had a deal, and two weeks later he calls me, and he says, I'm really sorry, but the, you know, the deal that we did couldn't have been made, because meanwhile, Mirosoft has given all those rights to Atari games.
▶ 26:45 Guy Raz So I guess you decided to reach out to Atari because you've been told that they had the rights for Tetris on the console, and you want to buy those rights from, presumably from them, right? 3 times in the scene
▶ 51:01 Guy Raz Not, not you or Atari or Nintendo.

▶ 48:03 Frank Azor And suddenly, this platform of consoles, which had tens of millions of gamers out there, you know, from Atari and even before Atari, were playing PC-level games.

▶ 1:48 Guy Raz Cheese, the pizza joint with the games that kept you distracted for hours, and an Atari video game, which could, frankly, distract you for a lot longer. 2 times in the scene
▶ 9:51 Nolan Bushnell And so, Ted put in 250 dollars, I put in 250 dollars, and that's all the money that went into Atari. 2 times in the scene
▶ 16:08 Nolan Bushnell Only of which, Atari only did about 35,000 of them. 2 times in the scene
▶ 21:53 Guy Raz Alright, so is anybody at Atari freaking out at this point?
▶ 22:01 Guy Raz Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari.
▶ 24:00 Guy Raz I mean, the Atari console that you were building only played Pong, right?
▶ 30:10 Guy Raz So, all right, so you're running Atari, it's doing really well, and then what? 6 times in the scene
▶ 30:48 Nolan Bushnell New, massive, wonderful product into the marketplace. 2 times in the scene
▶ 37:59 Nolan Bushnell But then we sold the company, and Warner didn't want to be in the restaurant business. 5 times in the scene
▶ 44:44 Guy Raz Nolan Bushnell is the founder of Atari and Chuck E.

▶ 4:30 Steve Case Back then, most people didn't have PCs, but a lot of people had Atari game machines.

▶ 1:24 Guy Raz Cheese, the pizza joint with the games that kept you distracted for hours, and an Atari video game, which could, frankly, distract you for a lot longer. 2 times in the scene
▶ 21:37 Guy Raz Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari. 3 times in the scene
▶ 29:48 Guy Raz So, all right, so you're running Atari, it's doing really well, and then what?
▶ 30:26 Nolan Bushnell New, massive, wonderful product into the marketplace. 2 times in the scene
▶ 33:49 Guy Raz And we could say, okay, that's Nolan Bushnell, visionary who founded Atari.
▶ 44:23 Guy Raz Nolan Bushnell is the founder of Atari and Chuck E.

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