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At its peak, Atari accounted for a third of Warner's annual income and was the fastest-growing company in US history at the time. It ran into problems in the early 1980s. Faced with fierce competition and price wars in the game console and home computer markets, Atari was never able to duplicate the success of the 2600.
Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and home computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Atari was a key player in the formation of the video arcade and video game industry. The company was founded in Sunnyvale, California, in the center of Silicon Valley, to develop arcade games, starting with Pong in 1972.
Atari Corporation was an American manufacturer of home computers and video game consoles.It was founded by Jack Tramiel on May 17, 1984, as Tramel Technology, Ltd., but then took on the Atari name less than two months later when Warner Communications sold the home gaming and computing assets of Atari, Inc. to Tramiel.
Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and video game console and home computer development company which operated between 1972 and 1984. During its years of operation, it developed and produced over 350 arcade, console, and computer games for its own systems, and almost 100 ports of games for home computers such as the Commodore 64.
Atari 50 features an interactive timeline (pictured) which presents text, images, video footage and playable games to form a narrative of the history of Atari. The game's editorial director, Chris Kohler, joined Digital Eclipse in July 2020 following the departure of Frank Cifaldi.
Mike Mika, studio head at Digital Eclipse, an Atari-owned game studio, added, “Uniting Atari and Intellivision after 45 years ends the longest-running console war in history.” Atari said it ...
The Atari 2600 is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released in September 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS), it popularized microprocessor-based hardware and games stored on swappable ROM cartridges, a format first used with the Fairchild Channel F in 1976.
1983: Recent college graduate Steve Case is hired at Control Video, an online gaming system that connected an Atari 2600 to customers' phone lines.