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Atari ( / əˈtɑːri /) is a brand name that has been owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. It is currently owned by French company Atari SA (formerly Infogrames) through a subsidiary named Atari Interactive. [1] [2] [3] The original Atari, Inc., founded in Sunnyvale, California, United States in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted ...
Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and home computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Atari was a key player in the formation of the video arcade and video game industry . The company was founded in Sunnyvale, California, in the center of Silicon Valley, to develop arcade games, starting with Pong in 1972.
Atari 5200. The Atari 2600 is a discontinued 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.
List of Atari, Inc. games (1972–1984) Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and video game console and home computer development company which operated between 1972 and 1984. During its years of operation, it developed and produced over 350 arcade, console, and computer games for its own systems, and almost 100 ports of games for ...
The Atari 800's nameplate is on the dual-width cartridge slot cover. The Atari 8-bit computers, formally launched as the Atari Home Computer System, [ 2] are a series of 8-bit home computers introduced by Atari, Inc., in 1979 with the Atari 400 and Atari 800. [ 3] The architecture is designed around the MOS Technology 6502 CPU and three custom ...
The console was released with nine cartridges: Air-Sea Battle, Basic Math, Blackjack, Combat, Indy 500, Star Ship, Street Racer, Surround and Video Olympics . The final licensed Atari 2600 games released in North America were Ikari Warriors, MotoRodeo, Sentinel, and Xenophobe in early 1991, [1] and the final licensed games released in Europe ...
Atari Games. Atari Games Corporation, known as Midway Games West Inc. after 1999, was an American producer of arcade video games. It was formed in 1985 when the coin-operated video game division of Atari, Inc. was transferred by Warner Communications to a joint venture with Namco. It was one of several successor companies to use the name Atari.
Atari Corporation was an American manufacturer of computers and video game consoles. It was founded by Jack Tramiel on May 17, 1984, as Tramel Technology, Ltd., but then took on the Atari name less than two months later when Warner Communications sold the home computing and game console assets of Atari, Inc. to Tramiel. [4]