Atari seating

[Piledriver]

Where did our favourite Atarians sit relative to each other while making our games back in the day?  I couldnt find a floor plan or seating information.

[Video]

If your talking 2600 era, I think it was kind of wherever, not really assigned. Apparently they were fine with anything, even drugs, so long as you were making the games.

[harmonyFM]

Before they were sold to Warner Comms, there was a very non-corporate atmosphere. They were manufacturing their products in an old roller rink smoking pot and hanging out. Bushnell would do “meetings” in a hot tub smoking a joint. Once they got bought I know the coin-op and home divisions were separated but I doubt there’s any documentation left of assigned seating. Not to mention Warner was not huge on crediting designers so they probably didn’t care to document names like that internally beyond administrative purposes. Within three years of the sale a lot of notable designers left to form Activision anyways so many names you might be curious about would be gone.

[Piledriver]

52 minutes ago, harmonyFM said:

Before they were sold to Warner Comms, there was a very non-corporate atmosphere. They were manufacturing their products in an old roller rink smoking pot and hanging out. Bushnell would do “meetings” in a hot tub smoking a joint. Once they got bought I know the coin-op and home divisions were separated but I doubt there’s any documentation left of assigned seating. Not to mention Warner was not huge on crediting designers so they probably didn’t care to document names like that internally beyond administrative purposes. Within three years of the sale a lot of notable designers left to form Activision anyways so many names you might be curious about would be gone.

 

Yeah but the 2600 developers could probably fill in the names if you had a floor plan for them.