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Atari VCS, also known as the Atari 2600, the most popular console prior to the crash. The Atari VCS (renamed the Atari 2600 in late 1982) was not the first home system with swappable game cartridges, but by 1980 it was the most popular second-generation console by a wide margin.
The Atari video game burial was a mass ... as one of the worst video games ever released, and the 1982 Atari 2600 ... of the video game crash of ...
The year's highest-grossing video game was Namco's arcade game Pac-Man, for the third year in a row, while the year's best-selling home system was the Atari 2600 (Atari VCS). Additional video game consoles added to a crowded market, notably the ColecoVision and Atari 5200. Troubles at Atari late in the year triggered the video game crash of 1983.
In 1984, as a result of the video game crash of 1983, ... From this platform Atari released their next-generation game console in 1982, the Atari 5200. It was ...
Major events include the video game crash of 1983 in North America, ... Atari 2600 Atari, Inc. Namco: 1982: Maze: 684,569 [26] 6 Night Driver: Atari 2600
3.3 The video game crash of 1983. 3.4 Breakup and sale (1984 ... From 1978 through 1982, Atari continued to expand at a great pace and was the leading company in the ...
Now, this is just getting out of hand. Bossa Studios co-founder Henrique Olifiers seems to think that, if the copycatting practices in social games persist, then the industry is doomed. In so many ...
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 adventure video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 2600 and based on the film of the same name. The game's objective is to guide the eponymous character through various screens to collect three pieces of an interplanetary telephone that will allow him to contact his home planet.