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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

9. Atari Video Games

Author : Gerard O’Regan

Published in: The Innovation in Computing Companion

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Atari Inc. is a name that is legendary in the world of video games, and the company also designed and manufactured home computers. Atari laid the foundation for the modern video game industry, and it developed video games such as Pong, Asteroids, Tempest, Centipede, and Star Wars.

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Footnotes
1
The Spacewar game was developed by Steve Russell and others at MIT in the early 1960s.
 
2
Atari later settled a court case brought against it by Magnavox over alleged patent infringement of Magnavox’s Odyssey tennis game. Magnavox won millions in various patent disputes, and Atari became a licensee of Magnavox.
 
3
Jack Tramiel was the founder of Commodore Business Machines.
 
Literature
Edwards B (2011) The history of Atari computers. PC World. April 2011
Metadata
Title
Atari Video Games
Author
Gerard O’Regan
Copyright Year
2018
Book
The Innovation in Computing Companion

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-02618-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-02619-6

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02619-6_9

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