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... And we would play a lot and compete against one another at GDI. And then later at Gottlieb, there was a great game room and Gottlieb full of recent hit coin ops. Anyway, Defender was one of my favorites, but really it was Robotron was the control inspiration, you know, move with the left stick, shoot with the right. ...
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... And how did you make it kind of stand out from other coin ops at the time? And was it influenced by any other coin ops as well? Oh, absolutely. Influenced. I was I loved playing coin games and so did Chris. And we would play a lot and compete against one another at GDI. And then later at Gottlieb, there was a great game room and Gottlieb full of recent hit coin ops. Anyway, Defender was one of my favorites, but really it was Robotron was the control inspiration, you know, move with the left stick, shoot with the right. Yeah, this one way, shoot another, you know, the ambidexterity of that. I loved Robotron. And so I insisted we had to do that. And it made sense that, you know, you're trying to emulate ...