Atari vs The Imagination Gap

Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Science Fiction

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2017

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Tim Lapetino's book "The Art of Atari" is full of eye candy for anyone who grew up playing those games -- especially if you gazed at the game boxes, with illustrations that barely resembled the blips on screen. But the book also tells the story of how Atari invented the video game console as we know it, pioneered the lifestyle of the Silicon Valley start-up and kickstarted a billion dollar industry before Atari gobbled too much, ran smack into its own ghosts and flattened into a yellow pancake. With Atari veterans Steve Hendricks and Barney Huang. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:22.6	I'm still not looking.
0:24.2	And I'm not listening to my podcast.
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0:28.1	Meir-hatting.
0:29.2	Simples!
0:31.0	You're listening to imaginary worlds,
0:33.0	a show about how we create them and why we suspend our disbelief.
0:36.9	I'm Eric Mollinsky.
0:38.9	And this is Tim Lapatino.
0:41.0	He's a graphic designer in Chicago and he runs a website called
0:44.3	the Museum of Video Game Art.
0:46.8	My dad brought home our first Atari 2600 in 1983.
0:52.6	And we busted it open right away.
0:54.3	And it was magical, you know, the idea that you could play games
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