Atari, Inc.

(For information on the Atari brand and its history, see Atari.)(For the current brand name, see Atari, Inc. (Atari, SA subsidiary).) Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and home computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Primarily responsible for the formation of the video arcade and modern video game industries, the company was closed and its assets split in 1984 as a direct result of the North American video game crash of 1983.

Atari, Inc.

(For information on the Atari brand and its history, see Atari.)(For the current brand name, see Atari, Inc. (Atari, SA subsidiary).) Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and home computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Primarily responsible for the formation of the video arcade and modern video game industries, the company was closed and its assets split in 1984 as a direct result of the North American video game crash of 1983.