Atari Quotes

The guys from Atari that are making the next Alone in the Dark game came and we had a great meeting. I`d love to do that. I`m a fan of videogames. I like them. And to get to be part of one of them would be a fun and exciting thing.

So we went to Atari and said, `Hey, we`ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we`ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we`ll come work for you.` And they said, `No.` So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, `Hey, we don`t need you. You haven`t got through college yet.`

Atari is a very sad story.

I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still be in the video game business.

And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal.