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New Year's is here, and with it brings the possibility of change.

As one behavioral scientist put it, first starts are really powerful.

So as you head into 2023, LifeKit is a great resource to help you plan your life and tackle changes, both big and small.

Listen to the LifeKit podcast from NPR.

Hey, everyone. Just a quick note about this episode.

It first ran about a year ago.

And it's actually a pretty tough story to squeeze into a single podcast because it's really two stories, two amazing stories.

And we didn't want to cut anything out, so we kind of didn't.

And we let it go a little longer than usual, which I think you will enjoy. So here it is.

We started out essentially designing this little game-looking thing out of wood and painting it so it looked like plastic, but it was really wood.

And our idea was to take it to the toy show in New York.

And you show this at the toy convention and where people like, this is amazing. This is going to change the world.

We sold zero.

Roman PR hits how I built this. A show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and stories behind the movements they built.

I'm Guy Ross and on today's show, Hanolan Bushnell took his love of arcade games and built an industry two industries, in fact, that shaped the childhoods of the world.

The childhoods of millions of Americans.

If you grew up in the US in the 1980s, then you were probably playing a little bit of this.

And then when your birthday rolled around, maybe you celebrated, you know, like this.

So these are two very iconic sounds.

Chuck E. Cheese, the pizza giant with the games that kept you distracted for hours, and an Atari video game, which could frankly distract you for a lot longer.

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