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Tag Archives: Atari
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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Why the Atari Lynx failed
The Atari Lynx was an ambitious video game console released in September1989 by Atari Corporation. The first color handheld portable video game system ever made, it sold fewer than 500,000 units, and was quickly abandoned by the company. The console … Continue reading
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Tagged Atari, Atari Game COnsole, atari gaming, Atari Lynx, Atari Vcs
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Warren Robinett Interview: A. Merrill’s Talks to the Programmer of “Adventure” for the Atari 2600
Warren Robinett was a programmer for the Atari Corporation, and was responsible for the design of the classic Atari 2600 game “Adventure”. The game was a visualization of earlier text adventure games, and a huge influence on later games like … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, Atari, Atari Adventure, Atari Game, atari programmer, Warren Robinett
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The 10 Worst Atari 2600 Arcade Game Ports
The ’80s was the decade of the arcade. And the early part of the decade was dominated by the Atari 2600. But even when these two juggernauts were at their heights of popularity, they were not two great tastes that … Continue reading
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Tagged amidar, Atari, Atari Games, Atari Vcs, atari worst games, breakout, burgertime, congo bongo, defender, Donkey Kong, gorf, Pacman, pooyan, tutankham
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Star Trek Online Season Two: Ancient Enemies Released
Atari, one of the world’s most recognized publishers and producers of interactive entertainment, and renowned MMO developer Cryptic Studios, have announced the availability of Season Two: Ancient Enemies, the latest content update for the Star Trek Online universe. Season Two: … Continue reading
Atari Cosmos
Atari Cosmos is a prototype game that was pretty much finished, but Atari decided to scrap at the last minute. (Partly (if not mainly) due to the fact that it really does suck as far as a game is concerned. … Continue reading
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Tagged Atari, Atari Console, Atari Cosmos, Cosmos, cosmos prototype
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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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Tagged Atari, Atari Games, atari haunted house, haunted house, new atari haunted house
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Atari vs. Nintendo
In the mid-1970’s the father of commercially successful video games, Nolan Bushnell was sitting on top of the world. A graduate of the University of Utah, Bushnell had just sold the company he had built, Atari, named for the Japanese … Continue reading
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Tagged Atari, atari vs nintendo, Nintendo, videogame war, Videogames
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30 SECRETS OF ATARI
The real story of Asteroids, Pac-Man, Pong and Pole Position… 1 Nolan Bushnell, Atari’s founding father, originally named the company Syzygy (the sun, moon and earth in total eclipse). He renamed it Atari because another company already owned the name … Continue reading
Join Thousands of Players Online, Race the Worlds Most Coveted Cars, and Live the Ultimate Luxury Lifestyle
Atari, SA, one of the world’s most recognized videogame publishers, and much-acclaimed developer Eden Games, are proud to announce the newest installment in the legendary racing franchise with Test Drive® Unlimited 2 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment … Continue reading
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