Atari

From 1972 to 1983, the video game giant Atari rose and fell. It fell due to a combination of factors, including bad tradeoffs, a surplus issue, and a deficiency in entrepreneurial ability. The Founder Nolan Bushnell sold Atari to the wrong company, administrators tended to overestimate their game and console demand, and finally Atari lost its founder and best programmers. With all these factors, Atari closed it’s door for the final time in 1983. When Atari was created, it started off with success

The descendant of the highly successful Atari 2600, the Atari 5200 was intended to compete with Mattel's Intellivision, and shortly after its release, Coleco Industries' ColecoVision. With superior graphics to its predecessor and the competing Intellivision, Atari was clearly poised for market dominance once again. Unfortunately for the company, what they thought would be a hit, turned out to be one of the major turning points for the company; Atari would fall apart a mere two years after the console

We all know the big companies like Nintendo or Sega. How about Tennis for Two or Spacewar? Video games have became a multimillion dollar media and it all started from one game. The first video game’s history is shrouded in mystery. Some people think it was the 1962 game Spacewar. Others think it was was Willy Higinbotham’s 1958 game Tennis for Two. Would you believe me that it is Tic-Tac-Toe? At the time it was called OXO. In 1952, Alexander Sandy Douglas made OXO using an Electronic Delay Storage

game. By 1978 competition between Atari and another game company called Midway was heating up. Midway had licensed an arcade game from the japanese company, Taito, that put them on the map. The game? Space Invaders. It went on to become the second highest selling arcade game of all time. (Space Invaders was the first arcade game to record and display a high score) Space Invaders also helped kick off what is known as the Golden Age Of Arcade games. In response, Atari followed with the release of the

Pioneers of Computer Programming When you think of 21st century computing, two things come to mind: Windows and video games. Learning Team A introduces you to the two men responsible for these phenomena – Bill Gates and Nolan Bushnell. William Henry Gates III During that late 1960's and early 1970's, BASIC was one of the premier programming languages. At that time, Bill Gates and his friend Paul Allen made the commitment to learn BASIC by reading the user manuals. In exchange for computer

Baer: he was nicknamed “The Father of Video Games”. In 1975 there was a console called Atari Sears Tele-Game Pong System. Another interesting fact is that the consoles are banned in China. The video game console is important because it helped develop a gaming life for some people and community for a lot of people that like to play video games

For over 50 years, video games have been around the entertain men and women of many different ages. Many of the original gaming consoles have changed or evolved over the years. From first person shooters or 3D adventure roll-playing games, it has changed over the decades through their consoles. In October of 1958, a man by the name of William Higinbotham, created the first video game system, so it has been told. It was a simple game of tennis, like the 1970s game of Pong. This is what started this

Part I - Gaming Console Industry Pre-Xbox Video gaming: A Brief History Atari pioneered the video game industry in 1971 with a title called Pong, which was sold as an arcade game for $1,200 each. The console market did not take off until 1977, when Atari 2600 was launched (Lipson, 2009) and this became the first generation of consoles. In the videogame industry, consoles are primarily stationary “boxes”, which require a monitor or television set for use. Known as consoles or platforms, these devices

Ready Player One is a story of lies, death and deception but in this book it gets ten times worse. Here we explore the inner workings of what we can only assume the author was thinking while also making a vast spider web of connections. This is Ready Player One: An Unofficial Guide Chapter One: The 80’s Were obviously better It is my opinion that the classic video game consoles represent wanting to travel back back to a simpler time like the 80’s and 90’s. In the book, their are many ongoing crises

early 1970’s”. Computer Space was the first video game to be produced, and it was created and developed by a company called Nutting Associates. “In 1972, a company called Atari introduced a game called Pong”. Atari was formed by a person named Nolan Bushnell, a developer of Computer Space, who left Nutting Associates to found Atari, which then produced Pong. “Pong was the first successful commercial arcade video game”. (How Stuff Works, 2017) How is a video game made? A video game is taken through