Atari

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## Atari

### Founder

Nolan Bushnell
 Ted Dabney

### Parent

Warner Communications (1977-1984)

**Atari, Inc.** is 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 industry, the company was closed and its assets split in 1984 as a direct result of the video game crash of 1983. The full company re-emerged as the merger between it's former assets was complete.

In recent years, the company has boosted in popularity & sales.

## History

### Redemption era (1998-2004)

Atari Cheetah "Atari's Swan Song" Development & Release (1998-2001)

Atari's Acquisition of Commodore International (2001-2004)

### Return of Nolan Bushnell (2005-2011)

Acquisition of Chuck E. Cheese & Nolan's Return as CEO (2005-2006)

Acquisition of Vivendi Games (2007)

Nolan's Next Big Innovation (2008-2011)

### "Atari's Big Decade" (2011-2020)

Success of Atari Arcade & Further Developments (2011-2017)

Acquisition of TimeWarner (2018-2019)

Acquisition of AT&T (2020)

## List of Hardware products

* Computers
	+ Atari 8-bit family (1979)
	+ Atari ST (1985) - family of computers
		- Atari STacy (1989)
		- Atari TT030 (1990)
		- Atari MEGA STE (1991)
		- ST BOOK (1991)
		- Atari Falcon (1992)
	+ Atari XE series (1985) - Series of computers
		- Atari XEGS (1987)
	+ Atari Portfolio (1989)
	+ Atari Transputer Workstation (1989)
* Video Game Consoles
	+ Home Pong (1975)
	+ Stunt Cycle (1976)
	+ Atari Video Music (1977)
	+ Video Pinball (1977)
	+ Atari 2600 (1977) - 2nd Gen game console
	+ Atari 2700 (cancelled)
	+ Atari Cosmos (cancelled)
	+ Atari 5200 (1982) - 2nd Gen game console
	+ Atari 7800 (1986) - 3rd Gen game console
	+ "Atari 2600 Jr." (1986)
	+ Atari Lynx (1989) - 4th Gen handheld console
	+ Atari Panther (1990) - 4th Gen game console
	+ Atari Jaguar (1993) - 5th Gen Game console
		- Atari Jaguar CD (1995)
	+ Atari Cheetah (2000) - 6th Gen Game console
	+ Atari Flashback (2004) - family of handheld consoles
		- Atari Flashback Lite (2006)
		- Atari Flashback Slim (2008)
		- Atari Flashback GO! (2010)
	+ Atari 2060 (2006) - 7th Gen game console
	+ Atari 5020 (2013) - 8th Gen Game console
		- Atari 5020 neXT (2017)
	+ Atari VR (2015-present) - family of virtual reality gaming products
		- Atari Escape (2016)
		- Atari Expedition (2019)
	+ Atari 7080 (2020) - 9th Gen Game console
* Atari Flash (2003) - family of cameras
* Atari Mirror (2003) - family of printers
* Atari Krome (2010) - Atari's brand of mobile products; name discontinued because of Atari v. Google lawsuit
	+ Atari Krome 2 (2011)
	+ Atari Krome 3 (rebranded)
* Atari Edge (2012) - family of smartphones
	+ Atari Edge2 (2013)
	+ Atari Edge3 (2014)
	+ Atari Edge4 (2015)
	+ Atari Edge5 (2016)
	+ Atari Edge6 (2017)
	+ Atari Edge7 (2018)
	+ Atari Edge8 (2020)
* Atari Aura (2013) - family of tablets
	+ Atari Aura2 (2015)
	+ Atari Aura3 (2017)
	+ Atari Aura4 (2019)
* Atari Powerhouses (2012-present; known as PWRHAUSZ from 2012-2015) - family of gaming desktops and laptops
	+ Atari STYNGR (2012)
	+ Atari LAZR (2013)
	+ Atari PSYKO (2014)
	+ Atari Titan (2015)
	+ Atari Banshee (2016)
	+ Atari Megalodon (2017)
	+ Atari Heracles (2018)

## Subsidiaries & Assets

*see also: List of Atari games & Atari/Subsidiaries & Assets*

* **Ataritel** (Telephone & wireless division)
* **Atari Game Studios** (video game development & publishing division)
	+ Acclaim Entertainment
	+ Activision
	+ Atari (brand)
	+ Blizzard Entertainment
	+ Epic Games
	+ King Digital
	+ Midway Entertainment
* **Atari Home** (consumer products division)
* **Atari Hotels** (hotels division)
* **Atari MoDi** (mobile devices division)
* **Atari Motors** (automobile division)
* **Atari Retail** (retail division)
	+ Atari Experience Centers
* **CEC Entertainment**
	+ Chuck E. Cheese's
	+ Discovery Zone
	+ Peter Piper Pizza
	+ Showbiz Pizza
* **Cyan Engineering** (computer & gaming hardware & development division)
* **D-VA** (vtuber division)
* **Impact!** (magazine publishing division)
* **Mozilla** (internet application division; jointly-owned with the non-profit Mozilla Foundation)
* **Roots** (digital platform division)
	+ **Atari Arcade** (Netflix-type streaming service)

## See also

* Atari/Mergers & Acquisitions

**Current Products & Services (w/o Consoles)**
**Atari Motors** (automobile division): Atari Xeno
Services: Ataritel (phone provider & wireless service) | Atari Arcade (video game streaming service)