it's pacman mania. >> my big memory of the '80s was my best friend got this $300 console that connected to your tv. he would just play this thing forever. it was the first time anyone had ever seen anything but tv on a tv, and i thought wow, this is technology. >> the imaginary rockets are controlled by the same chips the u.s. army used in their defense programs. but the significance of the chip does not only lie in gadgets. her whole future will be changed by the silicon chip business. >> it was discovered that you could actually etch a whole lot of transistors onto a piece of silicon which was basically a cheap substance that could be mass manufactured. >> these chips can control the flow of electrical current that in effect enables them to store and remember zillions of bits of information on a surface just a little bit thicker than an eggshell and smaller than a fingernail. >> this silicon chip supplies