Chuck E. Cheese founder Nolan Bushnell created Pong, by the way, and went on to found Atari before deciding the future was in animatronic rats and crappy pizza. Check out this interview, this article (with hot tub photo), and another article/interview.
October 27, 2000
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During my brief immediate-post-college residence in Los Angeles, I dated someone who had Pong.
Yes, I know that sounds like a straight line... 'Thank God it wasn't contagious' or something like that...but, really, it's so weird to realize I'm old enough to have witnessed the introduction of such things as Pong, dot matrix printers, etc.
Of course, it didn't take me long to get enuf of L.A. to be ready for more sophisticated entertainment. Soon I was back in Boise, married-with-children, and going to Show Biz Pizza. Scary how one thing leads to another.