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  1. Indeed, the game was made in a mere six weeks after Atari spent $20 to $25 million on the property rights, and skipped quality testing to make it out the door in time for the 1982 Christmas season.

  2. 2 days ago · Last year we had the new 2600+ and a couple of game carts. And a paddle set. For the first time in decades you could find a new Atari under the tree. There were some problems with pre-order deliveries, firmware compatibility, etc.

  3. Dec 23, 2019 · That year MacDonald’s had an Atari Video Game ‘Scratch And Win’ contest, giving away 1000’s of Atari products, including Atari 5200 Super Systems and Atari 400 and 800 computers.

  4. Oct 10, 2020 · Although the game sold 1.5 million copies over the Christmas season, eventually between 2.5 million to 3.5 million copies were sent back to Atari, a combination of unsold stock and returns. By the end of 1983, the E.T. game would be cited as one of the causes for the collapse of Atari. This was a far cry from the excitement at the company just ...

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    Atari had fortuitously secured the rights to the game before it even existed, thanks to Joe Robbins. Someone at Atari should have demanded they needed the by Christmas of 1981, and pulled out all the stops to make it happen (using an 8K ROM, having an artist and sound engineer, etc).

  6. Feb 22, 2016 · It was July 1982 and Atari, then one of the world's most successful tech companies, had just paid a reported $21m for the video game rights to Spielberg's new blockbuster, ET the Extra-Terrestrial.

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  8. Atari also licensed Jaguar to Sigma Design of California, whose full-motion video technology promised to enable Atari to make the jump from dedicated video game players to the home PC. In September 1994, arch rival Sega also agreed to pay Atari $90 million for the rights to Atari's 70 U.S. game patents.

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