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Atari struggled to find a distributor for the console but eventually arranged a deal with Sears to make 150,000 units by the end of 1975 for the holiday season. Atari was able to meet Sears' order with additional $900,000 investments during 1975.
- Overview
- Financial performance
- Highest-grossing games in the United States
- Arcade games in the United States
- References
In 1975, the video game industry was in decline following the 1974 crash and but began recovering with the release of new arcade titles such as Western Gun (Gun Fight) as well as Pong clone consoles.
In the United States, the best-selling and highest-grossing video game was Atari's Home Pong console. The year's best-selling and highest-grossing arcade game was Taito's Speed Race, released as Wheels and Racer in North America.
The following table lists the annual sales and revenue generated by the electronic games industry this year, including video games and electro‑mechanical games. See sections below for breakdown of revenue estimates.
Best-selling arcade video games
The following titles were the best-selling arcade video games of 1975 in the United States.
Highest-grossing arcade games
In the United States, RePlay magazine published the first annual chart of top-grossing arcade games in March 1976, listing both video games (VG) and electro-mechanical games (EM games) on the same chart for the previous year. The following were the highest-grossing arcade games of the previous year, in terms of arcade earnings.
1.https://archive.org/details/Winners_Book_of_Video_Games/page/n265/mode/2up
2.Amusement Trade Fair - Colour. British Movietone (February 8, 1976).
3.情報メディア白書 [Information Media White Paper]. Dentsu Institute. 2010. p. 293. https://books.google.com/books?id=fSFNAQAAIAAJ. "産業興行収入市場規模営業収入営業収入全体ビデオゲームアーケードゲーム中短波 FM (Box office revenue, Market size, Operating revenue, Total operating revenue, Video games, Arcade games, Medium and shortwave FM) ... 1965 755 152 713 1,090 4,843 1966 758 174 752 1,266 5,760 1967 789 214 788 1,530 6,793 1968 820 254 792 1,736 7,843 1969 838 323 0 848 2,206 9,305 1970 825 398 13 921 2,691 10,802 1971 793 430 17 1,010 2,893 12,649 1972 770 482 1,100 3,333 14,828 1973 927 580 235 24 1,187 4,018 17,344 1974 1,171 628 46 1,258 4,442 19,171 1975 1,308 683 52 1,314 4,856 21,555 1976 1,457 790 65 1,915 5,809 25,714 1977 1,524 892 83 2,091 6,512 34,784 1978 1,605 1,006 97 2,141 7,362 37,058 1979 1,582 1,164 115 2,191 8,326 39,255 1980 1,659 1,263 131 2,714 8,687 41,008 1981 1,633 1,347 143 2,816 9,284 42,625 1982 1,695 2,780 4,500 1,391 180 2,877 9,967 44,611 1983 1,863 3,860 4,570 1,450 237 2,926 10,713 46,915"
4.Annual Survey of Manufactures: 1975-1976. U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. May 1979. p. 2-30. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=l1DUjcEedFkC&pg=SA2-PA30.
5.Video Game Sales: 1972-1999. Gaming Alexandria (June 7, 2021).
6.https://shmuplations.com/kasco/
Nov 23, 2020 · The arcade table-tennis game was a sensation, drawing in consumers eager to play and companies that started to produce their own knock-off versions. Likewise, it was Atari that sold a home console version of Pong in 1975, and eventually its own Atari 2600 home console in 1977, which would become the first console to sell more than a million units.
- Omri Wallach
Feb 8, 2020 · Atari's future may lie with its home computer division. The market for home - as opposed to small-business computers - has taken off this year and Atari has seen its sales quadruple, to an estimated $300 million. Yet the division is still losing money, perhaps $25 million $50 million this year.
1972: Nolan Bushnell establishes Atari as a computer game developer. 1975: Atari introduces the home version of the Pong game. 1976: Warner Communications acquires Atari. 1982: Pac-Man debuts. 1985: Atari, under new ownership, begins manufacturing home computers.
Jun 7, 2021 · The adoption rate could range between 2 and 5 cartridges per console owner and the revenue figures may be flip-flopped. Cartridges did make very high margins so it’s possible the 1979 study has it right, as they state in the book that their calculation is based on a manufacturers’ selling price of $14.30. Were cartridges adopted so widely ...
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Atari was still recovering from its 1974 financial woes and needed additional capital to fully enter the home console market, though Bushnell was wary of being beholden to outside financial sources.> Atari obtained smaller investments through 1975, but not at the scale it needed, and began considering a sale to a larger firm by early 1976.
