The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.

By and large, I'm in the same boat as other inventors. If we're lucky, of the 10 or 15 items we do a year, maybe one or two of them wind up with a licensing agreement.

'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.

All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.

For me, inventing video games was just one successful thing I had done among many others.

In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.