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Warshaw quickly became one of the company's superstar programmers. Howard Scott Warshaw was working at Atari in 1982 when Steven Spielberg asked him to design a video game adaptation of E.T. This was the era of games like Pong, in which users used black-and-white virtual paddles to push a small, square 'ball' around a screen. Its main product, the Atari 2600, was the first really popular video game console.

Atari was basically an early Silicon Valley startup. In 1981, he was hired at a new company called Atari. To that end, he zipped through college, got a master's degree in computer engineering and headed to Silicon Valley. He wanted to get through school fast, make a quick, tidy fortune in business, and retire by 30. I wanted to get out and I wanted to engage life,' he says.

When I was older, I wanted to be an adult. From the very start of life, Howard Scott Warshaw was in a hurry. To understand the makings of what has been described as the worst video game ever, you have to understand the mind of the man who made it. Space Total Failure: When The Space Shuttle Didn't Come Home

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