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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.
Data Age was a California-based video game company that developed and published titles for the Atari 2600 platform in the mid-1980s. Among their more well-known titles were Journey Escape (a tie-in with the band Journey) and Frankenstein's Monster, both published in 1982.
Immediately after earning her Master's degree in 1978, Shaw was hired at Atari, Inc. to work on games for the Atari VCS (later called the 2600) with the title of Microprocessor Software Engineer. [2] Her first project was Polo , a promotional tie-in for the Ralph Lauren cologne. [ 3 ]
Joseph Warren Robinett Jr. (born December 25, 1951) [1] is an American video game designer.He is most notable as the developer of the Atari 2600's Adventure and as a founder of The Learning Company, [1] where he designed Rocky's Boots [2] and Robot Odyssey.
Imagic (/ ɪ ˈ m æ dʒ ɪ k / i-MA-jik) was an American video game developer and publisher that created games initially for the Atari 2600.Founded in 1981 by corporate alumni of Atari, Inc. and Mattel, its best-selling titles were Atlantis, Cosmic Ark, and Demon Attack. [1]
The Atari home video game system took the late1970s and early 1980s by storm, complete with faux wood paneling and a classic joystick with a big red button. Rival systems eventually surpassed the ...
In 1980, Lawson left Fairchild and founded Videosoft, a video game development company that made software for the Atari 2600 in the early 1980s, as the 2600 had displaced the Channel F as the top system in the market. [10] [15] Videosoft did not release any games, although their incomplete titles were saved and distributed to collectors in 2010 ...
BASIC Programming is an Atari Video Computer System (later called the Atari 2600) cartridge that teaches simple computer programming using a dialect of BASIC.Written by Warren Robinett and released by Atari, Inc. in 1979, this BASIC interpreter is one of a few non-game cartridges for the console.