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Radical Innovation Is Difficult To Fund. It Seems Scary. And The Really Radical Things Seem Even More Scary.

In 1980, Atari Was Bringing In Around Two Billion Dollars In Revenue And Chuck E. Cheese's Some Five Hundred Million. I Still Didn't Feel Too Bad That I Had Turned Down A One-third Ownership Of Apple - Although I Was Beginning To Think It Might Turn Out To Be A Mistake.

When It Kind Of Went To 'street Fighter', Where You Had To Push 13 Buttons With All 13 Of Your Fingers And Ripped The Spine Out Of Somebody, You Know, Violent Games Lost The Women. Complexity Lost The Casual Gamer.

In The Early Days Of The Video Game Business, Everybody Played. The Question Is, What Happened? My Theory - And I Think It's Pretty Well Borne Out - Is That In The '80s, Games Got Gory, And That Lost The Women. And Then They Got Complex, And That Lost The Casual Gamer.

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