it was called brick on the ipod.

woz and jobs did work on breakout at atari

mortenjorck 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A piece of lore I never knew.

Digging into it just now, an important distinction I initially missed is that they worked on the original arcade cabinet (all game logic implemented directly in hardware), which predated the 2600 and its software version by several years (by which time they had already founded Apple).

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soperj 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

lol. Woz did work on Breakout for Atari (Atari didn't know this). Jobs got most of the money (Woz didn't know this).

It's literally one of the "big prick" items of Job's history, along with disowning his own child.

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monocasa 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I saw an interview where someone asked woz about getting screwed out of a lot of the Atari money It was apparently new information to Woz, and he simply deflated a little, and muttered "not again, Steve..."

It was heartbreaking.

	▲	yreg an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I think you are dramatizing it a bit. Woz says he found out about it from Walter Isaacson's book. https://youtube.com/shorts/MpuPbQ8TY-I