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The Atari 7800 ProSystem, or simply the Atari 7800, is a home video game console officially released by Atari Corporation in 1986 as the successor to both the Atari 2600 and Atari 5200. [3] It can run almost all Atari 2600 cartridges, making it one of the first consoles with backward compatibility. It shipped with a different joystick than the ...
Atari Games (1984–1999) [a] Hasbro Interactive (1998–2001) Website. www.atari.com. Atari (/ əˈtɑːri /) is a brand name that has been owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. It is currently owned by French holding company Atari SA (formerly Infogrames). [b] The original Atari, Inc., founded in Sunnyvale, California, United ...
Aug 23, 2024 · Inside the Atari 7800. "We re-invented the video game". Paul Lefebvre. Aug 23, 2024. ∙ Paid. 13. Atari is known for a lot of video game consoles over the years, none of which were as successful as their first, the Atari Video Computer System (known as the VCS and later the 2600).
- Beginnings
- Computer Space
- Avoid Missing Ball For High Score
- Birth of Atari, and Arcades
- Have You Played Atari Today?
- Computers For People
- Atari Becomes A Household Name
- The (Video Game) Music Stops
- Atari Corporation: Power Without The Price
- Sputtering and Last Gasps
When I grew up, two common tropes were that the first video game was Pong and that Nolan Bushnell invented it. Although Bushnell and Pong both deserve plenty of credit, the real story is more nuanced. It evolved over the course of the 20th century, as amusement parks led to penny arcades, Skee-Ball, pinball, and other electromechanical attractions ...
After Bushnell earned his electrical engineering degree and went to work for videotape company Ampex, he began designing his own Spacewar!-like electronic coin-op game with his coworker Ted Dabney. They mocked up a prototype, and along with fellow Ampex employee Larry Bryan, they started a partnership called Syzygy Engineering. They soon joined for...
The Magnavox Odyssey was the world’s first home video game console. The late Ralph Baer conceived the Odysseyway back in 1966 and built several prototypes of it. In 1971, Magnavox agreed to manufacture and sell Baer's system. Bushnell saw an early version of it at a Magnavox dealer demonstration later in 1971. He played the built-in table tennis ga...
Once the game was finished, Bushnell and Alcorn installed a prototypeof Pong in a local tavern to see how it did, only to get a call a couple of weeks later that it had broken. It turned out so many people played it that the coin box was already overflowing and had jammed. The new Atari, Inc. began manufacturing and distributing Pong cabinets later...
Atari also broke into the home console market like Magnavox, but not until 1975 with Home Pong, a dedicated unit that played selectable variations of its first hit arcade coin-op. Other copycats followed this effort, too, and 1976 marked a brief wave of popularity for these devices. Soon, the microprocessor-based Fairchild Channel F arrived, a cart...
In 1976, Warner Communications had purchased Atari for $28 million, giving it the cash infusion necessary to properly launch the VCS. This move also proved problematic; in 1978, Warner installed Ray Kassar, a textile executive, as CEO of Atari. The ground immediately shifted, as Kassar and Bushnell battled over the company’s direction, most notably...
If you were a kid in the early 1980s, you had to have an Atari console, or at least know a close friend with one—particularly after Atari's conversion of Space Invaders arrived. Excellent conversions of Atari's own Asteroids and Missile Command arrived the year after, plus new hits such as Yars' Revenge. After a highly publicized break with managem...
All three new consoles launched in 1982, but fizzled out within a year. So did everything else related to video games. An oversaturation of arcades, consoles, cartridges, and increasingly poor quality cartridges led to a massive video game crash in 1983. Atari was hit particularly hard, thanks in part to the colossal bungling of its home Pac-Man re...
In January 1984, Tramiel and his sons had a falling out with other Commodore management. They left the company, entered negotiations with Warner, and then struck a deal to split off and buy Atari Computer from Atari Coin. The coin-op division became Atari Games. Tramiel bought everything else and named the new company Atari Corporation. Tramiel imm...
By 1990, it was clear Atari wasn’t doing well—especially in the US, where sales had reached a near standstill. Atari's upgraded 1040STE model launched in late 1989 with support for 4,096 colors, digital sound, and hardware scrolling, which better positioned it against the Commodore Amiga 500, but it was two years late. Otherwise, the operative word...
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Atari 7800. The Atari 7800 was a sleek and capable videogame console released in 1986. While it had a solid offering of its own games, the 7800 featured a prime system feature: full, built-in ...
The Atari 7800 ProSystem, or simply the Atari 7800, is a video game console re-released by Atari Corporation in January 1986. The original release had occurred two years earlier under Atari Inc. The 7800 had originally been designed to replace Atari Inc.'s Atari 5200 in 1984, but was temporarily shelved due to the sale of the company after the ...
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The Atari 7800 ProSystem was the first game system from Atari Inc. designed by an outside company, General Computer Corporation (GCC). The system had been designed in 1983 through 1984 with an intended mass market rollout in June 1984, but was canceled shortly thereafter due to the sale of the company to Tramel Technology Ltd on July 2, 1984.
