Musk made some video games, too
Many writers cite Musk’s first sale, the 1984 rail shooter Blastar, which he created at age 13 and sold to PC and Office Technology magazine for $500, as an example of Musk’s genius. I can’t speak to that, but I can relay that Isaacson says the shooter “began [Musk’s] lifelong addiction to video games.”
After making Blastar, Musk sold PC and Office Technology “two other games, one like Donkey Kong and the other simulating roulette and blackjack,” Isaacson writes. Now, “if you’re playing with Elon,” says SolarCity co-founder Peter Rive, “you play pretty much nonstop until finally you have to eat.”
