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All right, so hello and welcome to another episode of RetroNots as usual.

I'm Jeremy Parish and with me this week at Portland Retro Gaming

Expo we have another video game luminary,

Rebecca Heinman, who also is known as Berger Becky,

and has been, she's had her hands on all kinds of video games

that we've talked about here in the podcast.

So Rebecca, please just introduce yourself.

Well, hi, as you said, Rebecca and Heinman.

And I've been in the industry since I don't know the beginning of time

when we wrote our ones and zeros with rocks and sticks,

or punch cards or hopes and dreams began.

Debugging was actually pulling little bugs out of our vacuum tubes.

But the start off in the industry by accident only because I was very good

at playing Atari 2600 games.

A friend of mine convinced me to play in this contest

called the Atari 2600 Space Indulators Tournament.

I thought I would never be able to win

because I had no self-esteem.

But he convinced me to go.

I then won the regionals in Los Angeles.

Then I moved on to New York City in November of 1980

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