Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.

In 1989, SimCity introduced an entirely new brand of game play.

'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.

Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were very keen on keeping the technological edge on everything. There's a whole bunch of things that we innovated. We made the first computer that did stamps or sprites, we did screen-mapping for the very first time, and a lot of stuff like that. We had some of the most sophisticated sound-creating systems, and were instrumental in MIDI.

I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3.

I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.

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.