. >> i came up in the atari age. come on, the tar atari, man? [ cheers and applause ] one joystick and one red button. up and down. that's like the video game 8-track now. now you got 14 buttons on one controller on playstation. they all got a function. you got to go to school to learn playstation, man. the first thing i played, they were like, hey, man, how come you're not playing? "i don't know what i'm doing. there's too many buttons on here for me. buttons on the bottom and buttons on the top. i may not be a smart man but i know some difficult stuff when i see it." [ laughter ] >> gas prices man. >> gas so high man, i seen a pimp picking up his woman in a mini van. he said all my money's going in the tank. he went and bought a shuttle, tony. he had all his women in the shuttle. >> everybody is in a hearse. you know you can't go nowhere, you turn on the tv, what you see? nascar. 200 miles an hour, wasting gas. it's amazing. >> i'm going out of here, taking my foot off the gas, trying to save money. they going around in circles wasting gas. it

this atari 2600 console. even game designers now say they can learn from what designers were doing 35 years ago. >> every game that came out was creating a genre of games very little you could do graphic-wise so the game play had to be the most important focus of when you were designing the games. >> it was created by the video game history museum located in frisco texas. >>> the east bay women's conference marked the tenth anniversary with a soldÑiñr outcrowd today. nearly 600 women attended the event at the marriott hotel in san ramon. i had the pleasure of emceeing once again debbie sterling next to me, founder and ceo of goldy blocks, an oakland toy company focused on inspiring girls tofá embrace engineering and building things. the conference helps women with strategic networking and attendees share industry resources with each other. the conference is presented by the chamber of commerce, visitor's bureau chevron and other sponsors. geena davis the keynote speaker. >>> this is a very good day to read. >

but you came from atari. that's how you met steve jobs.nd you were brought in to be one of the adults. and, in fact, you designed the first apple logo which shows isaac newton sitting under the tree waiting for the apple to hit him on the head for that great idea. here's the logo here. you designed that thing. then you also did the manual for one of the first computers. what was it like? i heard you guys sold your own calculators and vw buses just to keep this thing going. >> well, my job was actually to keep a little peace between steve and steve. they had minor difficulties, which i had no adul difficulty in resolving between them. and providing the technical background i had as a result of 30 years of engineering. and some personal experience in corporate enterprises. >> yeah, you were the adult supervisor brought in from atari. great to hear from you. you have written a book about apple. wrote it in 2011. it's just fascinating to see. but one thing, apple unveils the iwatch on monday, supposedly. that's the big expectation. >> right. l

when you think back on the origin of games, your first atari in the living room with your brothers ords or whatever, it was a very social experience. or the arcade experience where you know, you've got the guy in the arcade who has the high score at pac man and everybody wants to be him. or the fun why guy or what have you. it's really bringing that sort of social experience back to the gaming community in a way that i think they've just been missing for a long time. >> in that clip we saw that was a woman that was hosting that show? >> mm-hmm. >> how unusual is it to have a woman involved in this? because you think of it as being very much a male-oriented thing. >> sure. it's really not unusual at all. gaming as an an industry i think leans toward male for sure, but female broadcasters female gamers are not, you know, out of the ordinary in any sense. >> and is that in part to draw the young male players? what is that? >> it certainly doesn't hurt, but it works the other way too. we have all kinds of different broadcasters. you can be just simply entertaining. you can be funny. you c

. >> even old nintendo and atari gaming systems can be worth $1 is -- $100.ust the old game cartridge can bring in $25. the key question is it rare? graves says hummel figurines and beanie babies are not worth much. there are too many of them. >> they were so overproduced and so many people collected them. >> when it comes to your old stuff, consider these things. rarities, there can't be millions of them. condition, must be good or excellent and appeal to people in their 40's or 50's especially if it reminds them of their childhood. be sure to donate some of your old clothing and furniture to those in need. organizations like good will, salvation army and others desperately need foundations. so you don't waste your money. >> knew what he was doing. he was very deliberate in what he was doing. >> big break in a serial rape investigation. the evidence and how many attacks one man may be responsible for. a double bunch of snow and bitter cold takes a toll. sidewalks, drivers. when is the big melt coming? and the salvation army tries to put the dress to good use

the atari 600 you could do the night driving program.oday, we can spend $198,000 federal it gas tax dollars to buy driving simulators to go into museums. so that when folks come by they can experience after they have driven on the ratty roads that were unmaintained to get to the museum, they can have a wonderful driving experience inside the federally taxpayer paid simulator. mr. speaker i don't fault museums for wanting simulators communities wanting bike trails i don't fault communities for wanting flag waiving cross walks. i fault this congress for facing a fiscal challenge with how do we complete our constitutional responsibility to maintain our roads and even have the discussion of raising tax dollars before we have completed making the current accounts more effective more efficient and more accountable. mr. speaker, i do not value members who simply talk about everything that's wrong and make no recommendations about how to fix it. we need to narrow the number of roads that qualify for federal support. we need to prioritize what ar