In the late '70s and early '80s, Atari was the king of the video game industry, both in terms of arcade and home platform titles. The latter was led by the Atari 2600, an early home console that ...

When the video game crash of 1983 shook the industry to its core, a lot of the warning signs could be traced to the preceding year. An oversaturation of the home gaming platforms flooded the market as ...

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Atari was one of the foremost video game companies in the world during the early 1980s. That was until the video game crash of 1983, from which Atari never truly recovered. Although Atari remained a ...

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