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The NES came out 8 years after the Atari 2600 so it's not really fair to compare the two. The NES began the third generation of video game consoles. (We are now beginning the 12th.) That early in the history of video games, 8 years makes a huge difference. I agree with other commenters who point out the importance of the 2-player aspect of the ...
Jun 1, 2021 · That’s what happened to Atari – there were too many ‘lemon’ games developed, Huang and Xu say. And that's what today's platform leaders want to avoid. In fact, it's not just a pitfall facing video game platforms – it's a worry for any provider who relies on third-party content, including streaming services Netflix, Hulu and Amazon ...
Jun 23, 2020 · Howard is an American psychotherapist and former game designer who is best known for his work at Atari in the early 1980s. There, he designed and programmed the Atari 2600 games Yars’ Revenge , Raiders of the Lost Ark, and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. He has also written two books as well as produced and directed three documentaries.
- Atari: A Failure in Three Acts
- Early Failure: The Atari 2600 Era
- Jack Tramiel: Savior Or Villain?
- Atari’s Failings as A Computer Company
- The Third Act: Video Games Again
- Atari Today
Atari, like some of its competitors, actually failed more than once. Like a Greek tragedy, Atari failed on three different occasions, and not necessarily for the same reason each time.
Nolan Bushnell saw that he had something big with the Atari 2600, but didn’t think Atari could get there on its own. So to get more resources, he sold the company to Warner Communications, a huge media conglomerate. Initially this worked spectacularly, giving Atari the chance to sell 30 million consoles. Ultimately, the problem under Warner was tha...
Jack Tramiel is a controversial figure in Atari circles. Commodore circles tend to hold him in higher regard, but there’s no doubt Tramiel was ruthless, difficult to work for, and he wasn’t as successful at Atari as he had been at Commodore. But having Tramiel at the helm at Atari meant not having to compete with him anymore. And at the time it loo...
Atari’s 8-bit computers certainly weren’t bad, and Tramiel dusted them off, gave them a bit of a cosmetic redesign and relaunched them. It gave Atari something to sell while he waited for his team of engineers, a combination of Warner-era employees and ex-Commodore employees who followed him, to build the Atari ST, a new computer based on the Motor...
While Jack Tramiel was trying to take over the computer industry with the ST, Nintendo and Sega brought the video game market back from the dead. Atari charged back into the market with a new, smaller-sized Atari 2600 and the reintroduced 7800, which was in most ways the console the 5200 should have been, and the XE Game System, which was the conso...
Atari exists today as something of an undead brand. But it’s a shadow of its former self and has changed hands multiple times. Atari could have done some things differently, but in the end, Nintendo, Sega, and Sony were too hard to compete with in the video game market, and the IBM PC and Amiga and Mac were too hard to compete with in the computer ...
Dec 22, 2021 · Atari's self-inflicted wounds led to its death. With a bad reputation and a market inundated with poor and sometimes offensive products, Atari, and with it the entire gaming industry, collapsed. According to the New York Times, Atari lost an incredible $310.5 million in the second quarter of 1983.
Feb 28, 2022 · Feb 28, 2022. Atari was, by all accounts, an overwhelming success. They had more money than they knew what to do with, hired the best minds, fostered the best think tanks, established a whole new ...
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Jan 26, 2024 · 1. 7800. Release Date: May 1986. Units Sold: 1 million. The Atari 2600 is more historically significant than the 7800, but for overall game quality, system specs, and sheer potential, the 7800 ...
