Atari Alumni

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 of is a homecoming. I think Atari has made some really nice strides in the last [...]

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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 inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame and the Consumer Electronics Association Hall of Fame.
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Atari says goodbye to Pong and Calls Out to “STELLA!”
When Atari released their arcade game Pong as a pre-programmed dedicated home gaming unit, it was a monumental hit and soon mimicked by every electronics manufacturer imaginable. In just a few years shelves were flooded with clones and variations, some even going as far as to [...]

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An original Atari 800 with the cartridge door open and BASIC inserted into the left cartridge slot.
When many thirty-something gamers in the U.S. hear the words “8-bit computer,” they likely picture a Commodore 64 (C64) or an Apple II. The word “Atari” is forever associated with the arcade and the Atari VCS (aka 2600), the [...]

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Atari may be prominently known for creating video games and game consoles, but the company was also a big player in the personal computer market in the 1980s. After Nolan Bushnell sold the company in 1976, Raymond Kassar looked to move Atari from video games to competing with Apple in the PC market. The first [...]

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System History
The VCS… Mmmm… Woodgrain As Pong’s popularity started to decline (coupled with the introduction of the Fairchild Channel F, the first system to have programmable “ROM” cartridges), Atari realized that the market for home videogame consoles that could only play one game was fading fast. So, in 1976, Atari frantically started working on project [...]

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Videogame names don’t come much bigger than Nolan Bushnell. The legendary entrepreneur cemented his place in history with the founding of Atari almost 40 years ago, bringing arcade classic Pong to the world and spawning a multibillion-dollar industry. Bushnell spoke with Yahoo! Games about the timeless appeal of Atari’s newly-remixed Missile Command, and pointed out [...]

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If you draw a straight line representing the evolution of video games from the Atari 2600 to the Nintendo Wii, one thing is clear: if you don’t know your past, you can’t know your future.
That was the central lesson of Georgia Tech professor Ian Bogost’s Friday talk at the Game Developers Conference here, “Learning from [...]

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The video arcade craze had started with Atari Inc at its forefront.
The current state of the Atari name and properties leads many people into a tangled web of confusion. It’s not surprising, considering the amount of times the company has changed hands, and the multiple entities that use the name now.
The original Atari Inc was [...]

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Nolan Bushnell was originally an electrical engineer and he founded a company called Atari Inc. He is also the man accredited with distributing the original video game pong has received a fellowship from the British Academy Video Game Awards, his creation started a gaming revolution and has paved the way for all of the [...]

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