atari

ATARI

Atari is an american multinational company, and at one time was the biggest video game company in the world. It was famous for its arcade games, home consoles and its all time hit games Pong, Pac-Man E.T., Space Race and Breakout. interestingly, all the founders of apple once worked at Atari before moving on to apple Inc.

Founded in 1972, and after being the market leader for several years, it faced problems and losses during the video game collapse of 1983. Prior to this, Atari was a subsidiary of Warner communications and contributed to almost one - third of warner's annual income.

In 1997 only 500000 out of 800000 Atari 2600 console ware sold which brought Atari into rain.

By 1996, Atari had a substantial line of labeled products since 1991 and ran into financial problems. Hance, Atari's name and assets were sold to Hasbro interactive, Atari games was renamed midway games west by its new parent company but disbanded in 2003 after a slump in game sales....