Category Archives: Current Atari News

Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell Returns

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Editorial Staff

It’s been 28 years since Nolan Bushnell founded Atari for just $500. The businessman, who used Pong to first launch the arcade craze in 1972 and later brought gaming into the living room in 1984 with the Atari 2600, is … Continue reading →

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Atari’s Haunted House returns to scare PC, Xbox 360 and Wii

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Editorial Staff

Atari is finally bringing back its classic Haunted House franchise for a new XBLA, downloadable PC, and Wii game. For those of you who aren’t ancient, Haunted House is a maze game about a kid exploring a mysterious mansion in … Continue reading →

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Atari’s Bushnell Talks About His ‘Homecoming’

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Editorial Staff

Nolan Bushnell, co-founder of Atari, has come back to the company as a member of its Board of Directors, IndustryGamers chatted with Bushnell on the phone to get his reaction to rejoining the company he’s best known for. “It kind … Continue reading →

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Atari Improves Full-Year Loss As Revenues Fall

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Editorial Staff

Publisher Atari shrunk its full-year loss from 221.9 million euros ($272.4 million) to 19.4 million euros ($23.8 million), and saw a small profit of 3.8 million euros ($4.7 million)) in the second half of the year — thanks in part … Continue reading →

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“Rollercoaster Tycoon” riding to the screen

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Editorial Staff

Sony Pictures Animation picks up the rights to make a live-action film with CG elements based on Atari’s PC theme park simulation series. To date, game-based films have inconsistent track records when it comes to critical and commercial success, but … Continue reading →

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What’s Carlos Slim Up To?

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Editorial Staff

Generally, when a billionaire swaggers into New York City, his pockets overflowing with bullion and his eyes bulging with real estate fever, he ends up buying some very large, very glamorous testament to his grandiose sense of self. Perhaps a … Continue reading →

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Atari teams up with partners for Sandlot Sluggers

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Editorial Staff

Videogame publisher, Atari has announced that its all-star line-up of partners to support the launch of the Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers video game for the Xbox 360, Wii and Nintendo DS, which ships out May 25, 2010. Franklin Sports, GT … Continue reading →

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Nolan Bushnell Biography

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Editorial Staff

Nolan Bushnell (born February 5, 1943) is the founder of Atari, Inc. (now owned by Infogrames) and the Chuck E. Cheese Pizza-Time Theaters and is considered to be the father of the video arcade industry. Bushnell graduated from the University … Continue reading →

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Nolan Bushnell Rejoins Atari

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Editorial Staff

Nolan Bushnell, the 1972 co-founder of Atari, has joined the company’s new board of directors, while David Gardner, Phil Harrison and Paulina Bozek have quit the publisher. Bushnell has created over 20 companies since the original Atari and has been … Continue reading →

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ATARI XEGS INFORMATION

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Editorial Staff

This look inside the Atari XE Game System includes two programs. XEGS Manager is a utility for convenient control of all the Game System’s built-in features, but many of its options can also be used on the other Atari XL/XE … Continue reading →

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