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Category Archives: Current Atari News
Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell Returns
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
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’
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
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
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?
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
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
Nolan Bushnell Biography
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
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
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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