This game was one of the first commercial ventures between Woz & Jobs, helping launch one of the most important founding teams in history.

It also played a role in ending it. Jobs promised to split the money 50/50 with Woz. A decade later, Wozniak found out that Jobs lied... 1/3 https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1260568823671017479

Jobs kept most of the money, only paying a small amount to Wozniak. It became a symbol of some the the petty ways in which Jobs could be a destructive leader, even to people who trusted him. Here is Woz in the Isaacson biography of Jobs, still betrayed by it decades later. 2/3

Of course, Breakout wasn't their first business. Woz and Jobs started working together a few years earlier, on an even more unusual (and illegal) project, as you can read in this thread . 3/3 https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1259992536946561025