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Before Atari's incorporation, Bushnell considered various terms from the game Go, eventually choosing atari, referencing a position in the game when a group of stones is imminently in danger of being taken by one's opponent. Atari was incorporated in the state of California on June 27, 1972.
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.
The Founding of Atari. With their first initial success behind them, co-founders Bushnell and Dabney channelled their coin-operated game expertise and reinvested the profits made from the 1971 game Computer Space and founded Atari in 1972.
Atari was reaching the end of its legacy as a company. In 1994, Sega game systems invested $40 million in Atari in exchange for all patent rights. In 1996, the new Atari Interactive division failed to revive the company which was taken over by JTS, a maker of computer disk drives that same year.
Atari was founded by Nolan Bushnell in 1972. Bushnell had first become interested in computer games as an engineering student at the University of Utah. After graduation, he worked as a researcher in a Silicon Valley firm, and there he developed his first electronic game, called Computer Space, in 1971.
Atari was founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in 1972 and was most well known for its home video game consoles and computers, as well as being a formidable force in the arcade games inductry. Along with pong, arguably their most important product was the Atari 2600 which shaped a generation.