Pong

“How we financed the company was we would sell for cash the machines. We had 30 day terms. Most of our parts we had 60 day terms. So we'd get the cash literally 60 days before we had to pay for the parts for that.”

“The game was earning almost 300 dollars a week. And the total cost that we had was about 300 dollars.”

“About a 150,000. Only of which, Atari only did about 35,000 of them. We got massively copied.”

“I looked at all the cash we had, and we had enough cash to build like 12 units.”

“About a 150,000. Only of which, Atari only did about 35,000 of them. We got massively copied.”

“And I show it to them and they don't like it because it's a two player game and the coin operated world doesn't allow for a two player game. If there's not a one player game at that time, that was sort of written in stone somewhere in the annals of coin op wor…”

“And one of the reasons that I think Pong was such a massive success is that it fed into the narrative of what was going on at the time. You know, just after the Summer of Love, the hippie movement women's liberation was starting to rear its head, and Pong, by …”

“I mean, the game was earning almost 300 dollars a week. And the total cost that we had was about 300 dollars.”

“And how we financed the company was we would sell for cash the machines. We had 30 day terms. Most of our parts we had 60 day terms. So we'd get the cash literally 60 days before we had to pay for the parts for that.”