Inside the headquarters were drugs and sex and booze. Its profits were soaring and bonus checks were rolling in. During this period, Atari was one of the fastest growing companies in America. Warshaw wasn't the only one full of hubris. "I thought, 'Oh my God! Steven Spielberg thinks my adventure game is just like a movie!' To me that was the ultimate compliment I could possibly receive on this work." I feel like I just watched a movie,' " Warshaw recalls. "He looks up at me and he says, 'It's just like a movie.
When all that was finished, he showed Spielberg the final product. It took him 10 months to design the Raiders game, write the code, get feedback, reprogram it and put it through quality control. At 23, Warshaw was going to be the first programmer to ever attempt it. Now to put this in perspective, nobody had ever made a video game based on a movie. When Atari got the rights to make the video game version of Steven Spielberg's first Indiana Jones movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, they put him on the job. 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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