Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and video game console and home computer development company which operated between 1972 and 1984. During its years of operation, it developed and produced over 350 arcade, console, and computer games for its own systems, and almost 100 ports of games for home computers such as the Commodore 64.

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A wild journey through video game history Available on Atari Mania is a retro microgame collection wrapped in a hilarious narrative of exploration and surprise. You play as the Caretaker of the Atari Vault, the storehouse of classic Atari games. One night, a dead pixel appears and soon enough, all heck breaks loose!!

May 27, 2022 · The first game ever developed by Atari Inc., Pong was one of the most influential video games ever created and the first to gain widespread mainstream popularity. A 2-D take on table...

Aug 21, 2008 · Atari was founded in 1972, but its crowning accomplishments in console gaming and computers were the Atari Video Computer System (or 2600) and the Atari 400/800 line of personal computers.

Jan 31, 2012 · The Atari 2600 game usually considered to be the first was "Adventure" in 1979. There is some debate though that other games were developed and completed before this.

Sep 18, 2022 · In 1979, Atari introduced a line of 8-bit home computers that were surprisingly capable gaming systems, especially for the time. Marketed as multifaceted machines perfect for both work and play, the Atari 400 and Atari 800 made gaming on a home computer more widely accessible than it had ever been to that point.

Sears title: Adventure. Contains first well-known Easter egg, containing the designer’s name. Adventure is developed by Warren Robinett for the Atari Video Computer System (later renamed Atari 2600) and released in 1980. In Adventure, the player’s goal is to recover the Enchanted Chalice that an evil magician has stolen and hidden in the ...

Sep 15, 2021 · The Atari 2600 (originally known as the Atari VCS) is the first popular home video game console, starting a gradual transition from the arcades. With arcade machines being so popular in the late 1970s and 80s, it was natural for the 2600 to have a …

Combat is very likely the first game I ever played. The memory of that is lost in the mists of time and my brain. Thus begins the new series The First Games,...

Feb 28, 2008 · History. In 1977, Atari released what is perhaps the most famous of the pre-Nintendo videogame consoles: the Video Computer System (VCS), later known as the Atari 2600. The company had scored an earlier triumph for the burgeoning industry with its Pong console, but the deluge of cheap knockoffs threatened its future.

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