Pong, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Pong comes up
MGA Entertainment: Isaac Larian
Atari & Chuck E. Cheese's: Nolan Bushnell (2017)
- ▶ 10:42 Guy Raz And we are talking about what, of course, became pong, which was just like two lines with a ball bouncing around a screen between those lines. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:02 Guy Raz And of course, I mean, we, we think about Pong today, and it's such a basic, you know, rudimentary game, but in the context of the early seventies, this must have been revolutionary. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:59 Guy Raz And, and how many, at its height, you know, how many of these arcade pong machines were out there in, in, in the country?
- ▶ 17:33 Nolan Bushnell It, it occurred to us that we could put Pong on a single chip and hit a price point that would sell to the consumer.
- ▶ 22:33 Guy Raz Nolan and his partners have gotten a huge order from Sears to make a consumer version of Pong, and so they need to figure out how to build a manufacturing chain virtually overnight. 3 times in the scene
Atari & Chuck E. Cheese's: Nolan Bushnell
- ▶ 9:44 Nolan Bushnell Well, then came Al Alcorn, which was our first technical employee, because we were growing, and we needed to get some more talent, and I gave him a simplest game I could think of, which was a ping pong type game. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:38 Guy Raz And of course, I mean, we, we think about Pong today, and it's such a basic, you know, rudimentary game, but in the context of the early seventies, this must have been revolutionary. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:09 Nolan Bushnell It, it occurred to us that we could put Pong on a single chip and hit a price point that would sell to the consumer.
- ▶ 22:11 Guy Raz Nolan and his partners have gotten a huge order from Sears to make a consumer version of Pong. 3 times in the scene