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Games. Atari's dedicated consoles and many of their early console games were licensed for sale through Sears, which often sold them under a different name, on some occasions months prior to the Atari-branded version. When different, these variant names are listed in the table below.
Consoles first available in the late 1970s included the Fairchild Channel F, Atari 2600, Bally Astrocade, and Magnavox Odyssey². The first handheld console, the Microvision, was released in 1979. Typical characteristics of the second generation of consoles: Microprocessor-based game logic.
Jul 3, 2024 · Atari - as well as third-party game publishers like Parker Bros. - were able to license some of the hottest properties in movies of the day: James Bond, E.T., and Star Wars, to name a few. There was also some unlikelier Atari 2600 movie games, such as Porky's and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Below is a list of arcade video games produced by Atari. These games were produced by Atari, Inc. from 1972 to 1984 starting with Pong , and Atari Games from 1984 to 1999. Atari no longer manufacturers arcade games.
Dec 27, 2023 · Of the only 30 or so games from the '70s, Combat, Air-Sea Battle, Basketball, Home Run, and Bowling are the only ones that screamed Atari for me and were ones I ever replayed. Breakout and Indy 500 would be on this list if I had them back in the day.
Aug 21, 2008 · This comprehensive look back, filled with quotes from the original creators and other primary sources, offers a detailed peek into the company that popularized video gaming as the '70s turned into the '80s, and created the first viable market for home consoles.
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The movie Cloak and Dagger (1984) features an Atari 5200 game. It wasn't a commercially available game, and the game footage was actually arcade game footage that they pretended was playing off a 5200.