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[emkay]

The following text is from :

http://www.digiserve.com/eescape/showpage....e.phtml?page=a1

 

 

What do you recognize when reading this?

 

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Q. What happened to Atari, anyway?

 

A. The trials and tribulations of Atari could fill a small book (and, in

fact, once did). To summarize VERY briefly, the history of Atari is as

follows:

 

1972 Atari Inc. founded by Nolan Bushnell from a $250 investment.

Pong arcade game becomes a smash sensation.

1976 Atari Inc. sold by Bushnell to Warner Inc. for $28 million.

1980 Atari Inc. posts record sales. $2 billion profits annually.

Atari occupies 80 offices in Sunnyvale, CA.

1983 Decline of video games and irresponsible spending by Atari Inc.

results in record losses ($536 million, up to $2 million

daily).

1984 Warner divides Atari Inc. Home division (Atari Corp.) is sold to

Jack Tramiel.

1985 Atari Corp. releases Atari ST home computer.

1989 Atari Corp. releases Atari Lynx, the world's first color

hand-held video game system.

1993 Atari Corp. releases Atari Jaguar, the world's first 64-bit home

video game system (see the Atari Jaguar FAQ).

1994 Atari Games becomes Time-Warner Interactive.

1996 Time-Warner Interactive (Atari Games) sold to WMS.

1996 Atari Corp. announces reverse merger with JTS Corporation.

1996 Atari Corp. and JTS connsumate deal on July 31 1996.

1998 Hasbro acquires the rights to Atari Corp.'s name and properties

1999 Hasbro releases their rights to the Jaguar to the public; Atari

is reborn as their new home video game label.

2000 Infogrammes Entertainment purchases Hasbro Interactive,

including all of Hasbro's rights to the Atari name and all of

its properties, for $95,000,000 in Infogrames stock and

$5,000,000 in cash.

2003 Infogrammes changes its name to Atari.

 

 

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[Cybernoid]

Do you mean besides the omission of any mention of the 2600 or the 8bit computers?

[emkay]

Do you mean besides the omission of any mention of the 2600 or the 8bit computers?

 

Yes.... It's just another site twisting ATARI history.

[Cybernoid]

Yeah, so many innovative hardware components came out for the Atari. I am not sure if Atari was the first to do these, but I saw them first on an Atari 8bit, including a light gun, scanner( Eayscan or ComputerEyes), not to mention modems and printers.

 

http://www.atarimagazines.com/v7n6/easyscan.html

http://www.atarimagazines.com/v4n8/VideoStar.html

 

I thought that this article was near back-in-the-day (1986):

 

http://www.atarimagazines.com/v5n5/weather...rmapsspace.html

 

(was this the first "Fax" program.... hehehe...

 

--C

[AtariYoungin]

that same list is in the Jag FAQ on this site, is it not?

[eobet]

I have an Edge article which has a very good and detailed description of the downfall of Atari.

 

I also have a nice Discovery Channel documentary on "The History of Computer Games", with interesting quotes from Nolan Bushnell.

 

Also interesting, is Ralph Baer's light gun, made six years before Atari appeared as a company, so no, the light gun was availible long before the 8-bits.

 

(As you know, Baer won the trial, and the right to the title "father of video games".)

 

* I've only had two hours of sleep tonight, so I hope I didn't misquote anything here.

[Shawn Jefferson]

Well, that particular page is from the Lynx FAQ, so it's no suprise that it doesn't mention the 2600 and 8-bit computers really.