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- The Atari 2600, despite its shortcomings, was the most popular pre-crash system, selling over 25 million units. It produced large numbers of enduring classics, increased the popularity of videogames, and helped establish the home videogame console market.
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The Atari 2600 is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released in September 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS), it popularized microprocessor-based hardware and games stored on swappable ROM cartridges, a format first used with the Fairchild Channel F in 1976.
Nov 20, 2017 · In the years since the Atari 2600’s first arrival, video game culture has developed into one of the dominant forms of entertainment in the world, somehow surpassing even Hollywood in terms of...
Atari needed a mega-hit in 1980 in order to squash the competition, and they found it in the home version of a game from Japan called Space Invaders. It was so popular that people were buying the Atari 2600 just so they could play Space Invaders at home - the first videogame 'killer-app'.
Mar 20, 2014 · But even as the Atari 2600 became a huge worldwide hit, new CEO Ray Kassar had been gutting the parts of the company that would have been able to follow it up.
Jan 27, 2013 · The Atari 2600 may have started the video gaming boom, but the company failed to capitalise on its success. The manufacturer's follow-up to the system, the Atari 5200, proved a spectacular flop.
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Space Invaders. Space Invaders for the VCS hit the shelves in January, 1980, and was a huge hit.
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Aug 21, 2008 · Atari was founded in 1972, but its crowning accomplishments in console gaming and computers were the Atari Video Computer System (or 2600) and the Atari 400/800 line of personal computers.
