Steven Spielberg, the iconic director behind films such as E.T., Jurassic Park, and Saving Private Ryan, reportedly played quite a bit of Pong in his day.
In this month’s IGN Unfiltered, Underworld Ascendant creative director Joe Fielder mused about his brief time working alongside the enigmatic filmmaker on 2008’s Boom Blox.
“Spielberg, he came up with the initial idea for throwing the ball and would check in regularly,” Fielder said. “It was great to be able to tell my dad 'Steven Spielberg stopped by my desk the other day.' He's a gamer. He told a story about how he first got introduced to games, when he was working on Jaws. Richard Dreyfuss said 'Oh, come here. You've got to check this out.' He and Steven Spielberg went off and played Pong on one of the piers until the machine was full of quarters and couldn't play anymore. So that was his in for video games.”
source http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/11/12/boom-blox-dev-steven-spielberg-says-he-played-a-lot-of-pong-while-filming-jaws-a-ign-unfiltered
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