Listology 5.0: Untangling Atari’s Past and Digging Up the Company’s Best Games

It’s been 50 years since Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabny formed Atari and ushered in the beginning of the game industry’s commercial era. But thanks to an almost neverending series of buyouts and acquisitions, the Atari that still exists today is not the same company that ruled the arcade in the 1970s and the living room in the 1980s.

And in the beginning, even Atari wasn’t known as Atari.

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Bite-Sized Game History: Atari Vs the World, Pac-Man Vs Superman, and Alien Vs Predator (on the Football Field)

When you look back at video games in the 1970s, there’s really only one name… Atari.

From Pong to Breakout to Asteroids, Atari filled the smoke-filled arcades with a parade of classic cabinets, and charged into the next decade on top of the world. We all know they didn’t stay there, but this edition of Bite-Sized Game History looks back at what the company was doing just before it all came crashing down.

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