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Dunno if you got the word, but the Atari Times 2005 Compendium is finally complete. The Atari 2600 - what I thought was a supercomputer back in the '70s is now less than a calculator. The entrepreneur and Silicon Valley pioneer pretty much created the video game industry with the founding of Atari in the 1970s. The Magnavox Odyssey got to market a wee bit before Atari. The classic Atari games still show up on phones and other gadgets. When did you start to realize you had a real phenomenon going with Atari. " So everybody that wanted to get into the software business supported Apple over Atari. So basically Warner drove the coffin nail in the Atari 800, despite it having a clearly superior chipset, a better operating environment. We had a lot of innovations in the Atari 800 that became standard later on. Atari was known for being a very fun place to work, which seems to have gone out of the video game industry. Atari's strategy was actually quite simple and, I think, quite elegant. I think the next Apple or the next Atari will be started within the next few months, we just won't know it for five years. For instance, you can trace the casual dress code back to Atari. More about classic. Atari are best known for their range of 16- and 32-bit. Any regrets, like letting Steve Jobs quit, or selling Atari too cheap. Retro Atari Classics is the latest in Atari's grand scheme to revive its old-school properties of arcade's past on current generation systems. Unfortunately this DS compilation is far inferior to the company's Atari Anthology package released for the consoles. For Retro Atari Classics, Atari hit up development studio Taniko to reproduce ten recognizable games from the long list of Atari classic arcade games. Atari had already attacked the retrogaming thing a few years back on the Game Boy Advance with Atari Anniversary Advance that shares many of the same games with Retro Atari Classics. Got Atari-related questions or stories. View topic - ultra rare atari ebay auctions. I am collecting Colecovision, so I am not really into atari yet, but I stumbled on this guy's auction. Mike AKA "Atariaction" is a friend of mine and he has TONS of stuff that rare. I can vouch for atariaction as well. More about 3do. More about colecovision. More about intellivision. More about classic. More about amiga. More about commodore. More about nec. More about macintosh. More about dos. More about nintendo. More about arcade. More about msx. More about sinclair. More about 3do. |