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From that point onward Atari developed both arcade games and console games, and in 1979 added games for their home computers, the Atari 400 and 800. Atari produced a second home video game console in 1982, the Atari 5200, and four more home computer versions.
List of Atari video games (2001–present), games developed or published by Atari, Inc. under Infogrames ownership.
The brand name "Atari" was used for many years and applied to several other entities that developed products ranging from arcade video games to home video game consoles to home computers to video games for personal computers. Below is a list of arcade video games produced by Atari.
NameYearMax PlayersDescription1The player as "Officer Bob" drives around ...Accelerator2, simultaneousA futuristic racing game where players ...2, alternatingAn unreleased prototype space shooter in ...2, simultaneousEach player controls an anti-aircraft gun ...- The Engineer Entertainer
- Simplifying A Revolution
- Atari Is Born
- Pong Is A Smash Hit!
- According to Nolan Bushnell
- Innovative Leisure
- Partner’S Split
- Pong at One
- More of The Same
- The Crunch Hits
Born in 1943 in Clearfield, Utah, the founder of the modern video games industry, Nolan Bushnell, always loved playing games. “I can remember playing Monopoly and Clue with my neighborhood friends, chess incessantly. I played tournament chess. I played #2 board at Utah State University. I’ve always been a game player, period” i -Nolan Bushnell He a...
In the Spring of 1971, while still working for Ampex, Bushnell along with fellow engineer Ted Dabney, started crafting their own version of Spacewar!named Computer Space. They worked out of Bushnell’s daughter Britt’s bedroom, turning it into a computer lab in which they could engineer their masterpiece. All sort of ideas crossed their minds, inclu...
On June 27th, 1972, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney officially created their own company named Syzygy Co., each contributing a $250 share -- mostly from the meager profits earned from Computer Space.xiBushnell said they decided on Syzygy because “I thought it was a cool name when I found it in the dictionary”.xiiHowever, they soon discovered that the...
"As a result of Pong, a player can gain a deep intuitive understanding of the simplest Newtonian physics." xxx - Carl Sagan By March of 1973, Pong was deemed a bona fide phenomenon for Atari. They had sold 8000 - 10000 machines, and would eventually sell upwards of 35,000. The day Pong was released is marked by the coin-op industry as the first nai...
“Atari was always scrambling for cash, and we thought to spend money on attorneys was not a smart thing to do.” - Nolan Bushnell However, it wasn’t just the copycats Atari had to worry about, it was other legal problems as well. Magnavox and Ralph Baer did not take kindly to the success of Atari’s Pong, especially since they had created a very simi...
Besides fighting copycats and legal battles in 1973, Atari continued to strengthen their engineering team, and create new games. At this point, creating games was almost entirely an engineering process. All the gameplay, graphics, and controls were governed by the TTL discreet logic and mechanical engineering skills of the technical team. For this ...
By late 1973 the growing competition in the games manufacturing business made Nolan Bushnell’s partner Ted Dabney very nervous. He decided to leave the company. “We only had so much money and somewhere along the line he said ‘let’s split, I’ll take the operations business’ because at that time operations was making more money than manufacturing” - ...
After one year of operations, in November 1973, Atari had built and sold 6000 Pong machines, and sales were about $1,000,000 a month, with $15,000,000 in sales expected by the end of the fiscal year (June 1974). xlviiEven though there many competitors, Atari was still tried to push Pong in directions that the competition had never considered. Some ...
Atari started 1974 on a high note. Pong had sold well in ’73, and they were creating new and innovative games almost every month. In January they released another Pong variant named Superpong. "An Improvement On a Proven Money Maker From The Originators Of Pong” liv - Superpong Arcade Flyer Superpongwas a one or two player contest, an evolution ove...
While these variations on Pong were very interesting from a game design perspective, they were not as thrilling to the public or arcade operators are Atari had hoped. Sales were off, competition up, and Atari needed something new. Sensing the need for some serious innovative development away from the grind of company, Nolan Bushnell contracted with...
Aug 21, 2008 · Following his article on Atari's genesis, game historian Fulton returns with an amazingly detailed piece on Atari's 'golden years', from the rise of the Atari 2600 through Asteroids and Battlezone.
Pioneers in the Gaming Culture Since 1972. Co-founders Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney changed the way we approached gaming – from the way games were designed to the way they were played. Half a century later, Atari’s legacy endures.
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May 7, 2002 · Timeline. 1971 - Before Atari. Nolan Bushnell sells Computer Space, a space combat game based on Steve Russell's 1962 game Spacewar, to Nutting Associates. 1,500 units are made, but Computer Space fails to sell. 1972 - The Founding of Atari.
