{"id":3488,"date":"2012-07-10T15:28:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T22:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/07\/woman-who-begat-centipede-recounts-birth-experience\/"},"modified":"2012-07-18T17:02:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T00:02:29","slug":"woman-who-begat-centipede-recounts-birth-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/10\/woman-who-begat-centipede-recounts-birth-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Who Begat Centipede Recounts Birth Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

from AP via The San Jose Mercury News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Woman behind ‘Centipede’ recalls iconic video game’s birth<\/h1>\n

By Barbara Ortutay – Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n

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NEW YORK — Dona Bailey was working as a computer programmer at General Motors when she heard the Pretenders song “Space Invader” and fell in love with it. The year was 1980. She had no clue about video games.<\/p>\n

A friend heard her say that she liked the song, and he got really excited. He told her there was a “Space Invaders” game at a bar nearby. They went to lunch so she could see what that song was about.<\/p>\n

“He gave me a quarter and I lost all my lives before I could even figure out what I was supposed to do on the screen,” she says. “But I got really intrigued.”<\/p>\n

That’s how she came to join Atari, the company that cemented the video game industry in the 1970s and early 1980s with “Pong,” and thanks in part to Bailey, “Centipede.”<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at the SJ Merc<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from AP via The San Jose Mercury News Woman behind ‘Centipede’ recalls iconic video game’s birth By Barbara Ortutay – Associated Press NEW YORK — Dona Bailey was working as a computer programmer at General Motors when she heard the Pretenders song “Space Invader” and fell in love with it. The year was 1980. She […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}