What do Steve Jobs, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Chuck E. Cheese have in common? This early Atari hit

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We explore some of Wikipedia's oddities in our 6,297,990-week series, Wiki Wormhole. What it's about: One of the simple-yet-addictive games of the first wave of video games, 1976's Breakout took the basic mechanics of 1972's pioneering Pong (in which a paddle slides back and forth and hits a ball), and gave it a twist—instead of hitting the ball to an opponent, it smashes a wall of bricks. That simple concept not only gave the Atari 2600 console one of its first big hits, it set a chain of events in motion that would change the world of computers forever.

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