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

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.

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

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.