Hally-a rising star at Atari and a fan of Star Wars himself-was determined to get the gig. The pages that Millard devotes to the inner workings of the Republican Party. In 1982, Atari and Lucasfilm reached an agreement to produce arcade games based on the entire Star Wars trilogy. Destiny of the Republic soars as serious presidential history: it’s intimate and compelling without being shallow. “I loved games and liked to design stuff, so they must have seen something in me,” he remembers. Hally cut his teeth on pinball games like Middle Earth, Time 2000, and Superman, but after a couple of years the California pinball division was shuttered, and Hally was transferred to the coin-op arcade games group. “One of those guys was recruiting mechanical engineers for their pinball division, so I applied.” After attaining his degree, Hally accepted a job offer and joined the company. “In my senior year, Atari sent a representative to my college to recruit people,” Hally says. As Hally neared graduation and needed to find a job, a seemingly fated opportunity would arise. Atari, the gaming giant behind arcade megahits like Space Invaders, was located in nearby Sunnyvale. In 1977, the year of Star Wars: A New Hope’s release, Hally was a mechanical engineering student at Santa Clara University in California.
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