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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 Sold to Warner Communications
- Sold Again
- Nintendo Lawsuit
- The Fall of Atari
In 1975, Atari re-released Pong as a home video gameand 150,000 units were sold. In 1976, Nolan Bushnell sold Atari to Warner Communications for $28 million. The sale was no doubt aided by the success of Pong. By 1980, sales of Atari home video systems had reached $415 million. That same year, the first Atari personal computer was introduced. Nolan...
Despite the introduction of the new Atari computer, Warner had a reversal of fortune with Atari with losses totaling $533 million in 1983. In 1984, Warner Communications unloaded Atari to Jack Tramiel, ex-CEO of Commodore. Jack Tramiel released the somewhat successful Atari ST home computerand sales topped $25 million in 1986.
In 1992, Atari lost an anti-trust lawsuit against Nintendo. That same year, Atari released the Jaguar video game system as competition to Nintendo. Jaguar was an impressive game system, however, it was twice as expensive as Nintendo.
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. Two years later in 1998, JTS sold Atari assets as int...
May 7, 2002 · Timeline. 1971 - Before Atari. Nolan Bushnell sells Computer Space, a space combat game based on Steve Russell's 1962 game Spacewar, to Nutting Associates. 1,500 units are made, but Computer Space fails to sell. 1972 - The Founding of Atari.
Mar 20, 2014 · Atari’s founders invented the video game arcade cabinet, helping to create the arcade culture that gave birth to modern video games. Without Atari, the history of games would have been...
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.
May 16, 2011 · The year is 1972, and video game innovator Nolan Bushnell and his partner Ted Dabney are fresh from their design of the first commercial arcade game, Computer Space.
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Oct 31, 2022 · Atari was founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. The electrical engineers saw potential in the budding medium of interactive video games after seeing Spacewar! in Stanford University’s...
