Sony’s co-founder, Akio Morita, had to battle with his own engineers and executives who argued that a tape-player without a recording function would never work.

Tom Zimmerman, a co-worker, recalls the game being a "visual orgy" where the player has to move a cloud around. Move the cloud fast enough, and you are rewarded with a surge of light and sound.

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