TITLE
How Steve Wozniak’s Breakout Defined Apple’s Future
AUTHOR
Ben Hanson
PUBLICATION
Game Informer
YEAR
2013
ARTICLE TYPE
Interview
FROM THE ARTICLE
[Ben Hanson:] Where did the design for Breakout come from?[Steve Wozniak:] Steve Jobs said that it was Nolan Bushnell’s idea. He wanted a one-player Pong game. Steve described how it had to have bricks and all that. Now, it could be that Steve had actually thought up the design and sold it to Nolan Bushnell because [Steve] was very specific: the score had to be at the bottom. It was a real fun project. I’d already done Pong, so it’s really just an extension of [that] game.
COMPANIES MENTIONED
Atari
GAMES MENTIONED
Breakout
PEOPLE MENTIONED
Steve Jobs
Steve Wozniak
PRINT AVAILABILITY
May 2013 (Issue 241)