Atari got cold feet, and dropped the idea -- and the game -- before completion.
Their experience is different -- it's more about that three-striped symbol, with the Atari name underneath.
Its early titles included Barbarian and Shadow of the Beast for the Amiga and Atari ST.
You know those Atari controllers that let you play Atari games without actually having an Atari?
This table tennis simulation was originally meant to be a training project for a new engineer at Atari.
What we're going to do first is set up the Atari 2600 emulator Stella.
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As a licensor, Atari extends its brand and franchises into other media, merchandising and publishing categories.
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The job at Atari exposed him to the earliest generation of video games.
The Atari, just to take one example, was largely (not exclusively, but largely) as US phenomenon.
And did you know late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs got his start with Atari?
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Atari said in December it was looking to raise cash and was talking to investors.
When the Atari 2600 was introduced, it came with a joystick equipped with a single red button.
When I was a kid, time spent with the Atari 2600 console was tantamount to dodging responsibilities.
Apple built its first personal computers with some of the parts from Atari's early video game machines.
It was one of the first movie tie-ins and one of the biggest disasters in Atari history.
Additionally, I had a Game Boy, an Atari Lynx and a Sega Game Gear with the TV tuner.
Atari will no doubt take a page from the Temple Run playbook as they concentrate on mobile games.
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But a few short years later Atari's machine, the 2600, was history, buried under a rash of poor-quality games.
Atari was the first video game, Visicalc the first desktop spreadsheet, and Mosaic the first Internet browser.
Atari has offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Paris, and Lyon.
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He allowed employees to turn Atari's lobby into a cross between a video game arcade and the Amazon jungle.
Anh and I hung out with the others kids in the basement, playing Atari and ping-pong and watching TV.
More than once I tried to ask my dad for an Atari game console when I was a kid.
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Atari SA, formerly known as Infogrames SA has been struggling financially for years.
Even Atari , that classic garage company, actually began in the borrowed bedroom of one of Nolan Bushnell' s kids.
Who knew the simplest of Atari games could teach so much about the complexity of managing a global marketing organization?
The personal camcorder, the Atari game "Pong, " Microsoft's Xbox console and HDTV all chart their origins to CES, too.
He later worked on 3-D graphics at gamemaker Atari, compact computing systems at Apple Computer and easy-to-use interfaces at Disney.
There are only a few anecdotes about Bushnell's interaction with Jobs at Atari and about those meetings around Silicon Valley.
He also bought my brother and I the first Atari 800, some extra 5 inch floppies and a used Basic textbook.
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