Atari's Breakout | #116

Story Break

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5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Atari's Breakout has been begging for a 200 million dollar blockbuster ever since it was released in 1976. Well, 33 years later, 3, 30 somethings, take 3 times 20 minutes to finally break a story worthy of the arcade masterpiece.

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0:00.0	Welcome ladies and gentlemen to another episode Story Break, the Writers Room Podcasts
0:11.9	where three Hollywood professionals have an hour to turn a humble idea. Sorry, I've been sick. It's not an air of my lungs.
0:19.0	Hour to turn a humble idea into a pitch for an awesome movie.
0:22.0	Whoo, I'm your host and the recovering from a cold Freddie Wong.
0:26.0	I'm the Will Madour 64, also known as the Wiltari 2,600.
0:32.0	God. The great classic screenwriting console of days past.
0:36.5	I'm a screenwriter.
0:37.5	I'm Matt Arnold, I'm breakout dad of 2019.
0:41.0	Sometimes by a defense director. And today, what are we doing? 2019 and sometimes by the
0:42.6	the director.
0:43.6	And today, what are we doing, gentlemen?
0:45.6	Beep, boop, boop.
0:48.0	Boop, that's right, the sound of classic console gaming.
0:51.4	Straight from the homes of the 1980s to your ears here in the year.
0:54.8	1970s, 70s?
0:56.8	1976.
0:57.8	May 13th, 1976.
0:59.8	The world was changed. Nearly 200 years since the birth of our nation a new birth the birth of breakout one of the greatest video games of all time is what we are doing today and Freddie started this by saying there is nothing we could
1:13.6	possibly do with breakout so we are here to prove him wrong. Will what's your idea? So breakout for those who don't know, for those who don't know, for those who've been living
1:28.9	under a rock for the last 2,600 years, I'm sorry 2,600 for life.
1:33.6	Breakout was a video game developed and published by Atari.
1:37.0	It's like one of those staple video games,
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