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Atari was massively popular. The 2600 was sold from 1977 to 1992. It has the longest lifespan of any console. It also sold over 30 million units worldwide, making it the 10th most successful console in history. It outsold the original Xbox and the N64. Pong isn't really an Atari 2600 game.
Jun 3, 2014 · The quality of the E.T. video game has become an urban legend. It’s the worst game ever made for an Atari console. It’s the worst video game ever made, period. It is so bad, it caused the ...
May 31, 2017 · The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 was a commercial flop and a gaming disaster. Based loosely on Steven Spielberg's 1982 blockbuster of the same name, the game was a confusing mess that left ...
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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.
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“I was in love with computers in my graduate work in college, and I fell out of love with computers at Hewlett Packard where I was drowning in a sea of computational mediocrity, and it was very unsatisfying, and so I used to act out,” Warshaw says. “I used to do some wacky stuff, especially, by HP standards. And one of my coworkers came up to me on...
Not only did Warshaw have to make a functional, licensed game for Steven Spielberg in five weeks, but he had to do it almost entirely on his own. No one in the Atari office wanted to help him program it. He did have Jerome Domurat doing most of E.T.’s graphics, and the opening theme was composed for him by Atari’s sound team. But all of the design,...
While E.T.’s reception certainly wasn’t the only reason for Atari’s downfall, it was a contributing factor. It played a notable role in the infamous Video Game Crash of 1983, an event characterized by a flooded software and hardware market alongside decreased consumer trust in video game quality – E.T. had an initial print run of 5 million copies w...
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Feb 22, 2016 · The video game of Steven Spielberg's ET is considered to be one of the worst of all time and has even been blamed for triggering the collapse of Atari. Howard Scott Warshaw, the gifted programmer ...
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Dec 10, 2019 · The Atari 2600 wasn’t a failure. It sold 30 million units, accumulated a library of over 400 titles, and greatly exceeded expectations. The problem wasn’t the 2600 so much as the succession plan. The Atari 2600 fell hard and fast due to obsolescence. Console makers understand that today and plan accordingly.
