Atari

Atari, Inc. was a pioneering video game and computer company that was originally founded on June 27, 1972 by and in , California.
==History==
At age 19 in May 1974, Steve Jobs was hired by Al Alcorn as a technician and became employee #40.Steve Jobs, Atari Employee Number 40 by Frank Cifaldi, Game Developer. 2011-10-07.Breakout - Jobs and Woz Bust Through by William Hunter, The Dot Eaters. 2013-03. In early 1975, Jobs brought in his friend Steve Wozniak to work on the design of Atari's Breakout video game.A Breakout Story by Ethan Johnson, The History of How We Play. 2018-12-29.The Making of Breakout, Retro Gamer. 2014-05-13. Bushnell, who had supervised Jobs, remarked that he was "difficult but valuable". When Jobs and Wozniak founded Apple Computer, Bushnell declined an offer from Jobs to invest $50,000 for a 1/3 stake in their new venture.Jobs' first boss Nolan Bushnell: 'Steve was difficult but valuable' by Rik Myslewski, The Register. 2013-03-30. Bushnell sold Atari to for $28 million in 1976 and founded Chuck E. Cheese in the following year.Folger Estate Up for Sale In Woodside / Atari founder asking $8.9 million for it by Mark Simon, San Francisco Chronicle. 1996-04-25.
The current brand is marketed by , a subsidiary of , based in , France.
==Videos==
Wozniak Pong, Steve Jobs & Atari
From $2 Billion to Nothing - The Rise and Fall of Atari
==References==
==External links==
*Atari official site
*Atari at the Apple App Store
* at Wikipedia
===Articles===
*The History of Breakout at Big Fish Games (2012-05-30)
*The Inside Story of Pong and the Early Days of Atari by Leslie Berlin at Wired (2017-11-15)
*Al Alcorn, Creator of Pong, Explains How Early Home Computers Owe Their Color Graphics to This One Cheap, Sleazy Trick by Stephen Cass at IEEE Spectrum (2020-04-21)
 
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