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Atari's products and design principles span 50 years of gaming, consumer electronics, and digital art. Some of the most influential engineers and creatives in the world credit their time with Atari games for sparking their imaginations. Discover a story of heroes and teamwork in this timeline of company history.
The rights to Atari, Inc.'s game properties were shared between the two companies: Atari Corporation receiving the trademarks and the home rights, [8] while Atari Games receiving the rights to use the logo and brand name with appended text "Games" on arcade products.
Jun 27, 2022 · 1984: Atari 7800 home video game console was released. It could run almost all Atari 2600 cartridges, making it one of the first consoles with backward compatibility. 1989: Atari Lynx handheld game console was released. 1993: Atari Jaguar home video game console is released. It sold no more than 150,000 units before it was discontinued in 1996.
- By Colin Covert
- I. Tom Swift in Silicon Valley
- II. Atari Is Born
- III. Shopping For Dollars
- IV. Under New Management
- V. The Three Faces of Atari
- VI: The Second Generation
Reprinted from TWA Ambassador Magazine with permission of the author and publisher; copyright 1982 by Trans World Airlines, Inc. Much has happened in the turbulent ten-year history of Atari. Hi-Res wants to take this premiere opportunity to recap this corporate bantom-weight's emergence as a muscle-bound profit maker. The following is one of the be...
Once upon a time, not so long ago, California's Santa Clara Valley was an obscure, tranquil agrarian region like the farm country where Dorothy and Toto lived before the twister hit. A generation ago, the average businessman was a struggling apricot-, plum-, or cherry-grower; the typical laborer was a migrant fruit picker. The Valley, the rolling h...
Computer Spaceflopped. No one would pay to play it, and fewer than 2,000 were sold. Unlike Bushnell's technically sophisticated cohorts, the average guy in the bar was simply bewildered by the game. The public had never seen anything like it before. It was ahead of its time. Bushnell went back to the drawing board with a vengeance. In 1972, he was ...
In 1976 demand overwhelmed the video game makers. There was an apparently insatiable demand for the games from armchair athletes, and Atari and Magnavox, the only homegame manufacturers the year before, were joined by a host of competitors. Ever since 1974, with economical microprocessor chips a reality, hundreds of circuits could be added to the g...
Atari got the capital it needed. Warner's loans to Atari totaled $120 million at their peak, and with Warner's considerable investment behind them, Atari's engineers created the Video Computer System, a $200 programmable system with colorful graphics and plenty of game cartridges. Not only was the new system versatile, it promised to be wildly prof...
Nineteen-eighty was the year Atari's profits began to take off. Revenues more than doubled, to about $415 million, accounting for a third of the conglomerates's 1980 operating income (and far overshadowing the film division's $60 million profit). Lee S. Isgur, voted America's number one financial analyst of leisure-time stocks for six years in a ro...
Prospects for the future seem bright. Charles Lazarus, president of the New Jersey-based Toys "R" Us chain, was wowed by the last Christmas's sales figures. He hails video games as "the hottest thing around, the successor to the Ping-Pongtable as a source of family fun." . Susan McKelvey, publicity director of the K Mart Corporation, agrees. "Anyth...
Mar 23, 2024 · With Atari‘s sales in freefall and recently launched products like the 5200 console and 2600-compatible MindLink technology failing fast, Atari‘s parent firm Warner Communications sold the entire Personal Computer and Video Game divisions of Atari in 1984 to close out one of technology‘s most spectacular rises and falls ever.
Oct 13, 2023 · The history of video games is longer than most people think. Atari, Inc. was a pioneer in arcade games, home video game consoles, and home computers in its early years. Atari is largely responsible for the existence of arcade gaming cabinets and the proliferation of love for video gaming by the average person. Quick Facts Year Founded1972 Founders
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Decades after his days leading Atari‘s engineering brain trust, an aging yet still visionary Bushnell recent reflected on creative ethos in a 2021 interview: "I believe ideas come from chaos. They come from a zoo of disparate animals and technologies that suddenly are adjusted in unique ways, kind of like evolution."
