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- Nine games were available for its launch, and despite the Sears deal, initial sales were disappointing.
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Atari produced a second home video game console in 1982, the Atari 5200, and four more home computer versions. Beginning in Summer 1981, Atari published the Atari Program Exchange , a quarterly mail-order catalog of software written for Atari computers by external developers which Atari then distributed to customers.
A recent Atari survey showed that 86 percent of the US population from 13 to 20 has played some kind of video game and an estimated 8 million US homes have video games hooked up to the television set. Sales of home video games were $3.8 billion in 1982, approximately half that of video game arcades.
All 127 of the initial era of Atari 2600 games (between the console's launch in 1977 and the summer of 1980) were developed and manufactured by Atari, Inc. These games were published by Atari, and many were also licensed to Sears , which released these games under its Tele-Games brand, often with different titles. [ 2 ]
Atari TitleSears TitleDesigner Or Programmer32 in 1-19883-D Tic-Tac-ToeAdventureTarget FunU.S. Games 1982 Worm War I: Sirius Software 20th Century Fox 1982 X-man: Mystique Universal Gamex 1983 Xenophobe: Atari Atari 1990 Yars' Revenge: Atari Atari 1982 The Year 1999: Rainbow Vision Rainbow Vision 1983 Z-Tack: Bomb Bomb 1983 Zaxxon: Coleco Coleco 1982 Zoo Fun: Suntek Suntek 1983
Atari continued to ride the wave for another year, particularly with the release of Centipede. It is one of the top four highest-grossing arcade games of 1982, along Ms. Pac-Man, Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, and Atari’s 11th bestselling game.
601 video games were released on Atari 2600 from 1977 through 2023. They were developed by 512 people from 188 publishers and developers.
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Sep 11, 2021 · Manufactured, marketed, and released by Atari back in 1977, the Video Pinball brand is a series of single-player dedicated home video game consoles launched around the same period as the Atari 2600 and the Atari Stunt Cycle. Looking back, the origins of this console are a delight to explore nowadays.
