"I was able to teach myself how to copy cartridges and amassed a huge video game collection. Not satisfied with copying, I reverse-engineered how the games worked,"
"When she won, she then went to New York for the nationals, where she won again, becoming the very first person to win any video game championship - even if she was actually gunning for second place."
""I wanted the Atari 800 computer that was the second-place prize... oh, gosh-I really wanted one," she said in a 2010 interview. "Because the grand prize was a stand-up arcade game, and I didn't want that.""
As a teenager, Rebecca 'Burger' Heineman learned to copy and reverse-engineer Atari 2600 cartridges to build a large game collection. High Space Invaders scores led a friend to take her to a regional championship in 1980, and she subsequently won nationals in New York, becoming the first video game championship winner. The victory connected her with Electronic Games magazine editors, leading to writing and programming opportunities. Heineman joined Avalon Hill's new video game division while underage, worked on published titles, later co-founded a major early-1980s software company, and helped pioneer an enduring adventure-game genre.
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