Author: Rhindle the Red (pool-63.50.135.21.kgp2.grid.net)
Date: 09-09-2001 05:22
Steve Jobs worked for Atari and was assigned to program 'Breakout' for the arcade back in the 70's. He wasn't up to it, so he got his friend Steve Wozniak to do it for him. He was paid $5000, but (I think) only gave Woz $1000.
Nonetheless, Jobs is credited as the programmer of 'Breakout.' See his entry at AtariAge:
http://www.atariage.com/programmer_page.html?SystemID=2600&ProgrammerID=17
But you want to contact Atari/Infogrames, as they would hold the copyright on the game, not Jobs.
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