 Nutting had been contracted by Midway, the video game division of Bally, to create a standardized graphics driver chip.They intended to use it in most of their future arcade games, as well as a console they were working on which would later turn into the Astrocade.Midway was not immediately interested in the home computer market, but the Nutting people managed to convince management to get DeFanti to port GRASS3 to the platform under contract.