I Always Try To Do Something Nobody

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.

Video Games In Some Ways Are Too Powerful, They Have Too Much Resonance With Kids. And It's Very Easy To Overdose On Video Games And To Let The Outside World Go By.

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.

In 1980, Business At My Company, Chuck E. Cheese's, Was Thriving And I Was Feeling Flush. So I Bought A Very Large House On The Champ De Mars In Paris, Right Between The Eiffel Tower And The Ecole Militaire. The Home Was Quite Amazing: At Six Stories, It Spanned 15,000 Square Feet And Featured Marble Staircases And A Swimming Pool In The Basement.

Creativity In Life Is About Saying Yes To New Ideas.