This Day in Tech History.
Added 2022-06-27 19:01:53 +0000 UTC
All Hail Atari
June 27, 1972
The iconic video game company, Atari, is founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Their first video game, Pong, was the first commercially successful video game and led to the start of the video game industry. In 1977, Atari’s Video Computer System (known as the VCS and later the Atari 2600) popularized the home video game market. Before the video game crash of 1983, Atari was the fastest growing company in the history of the United States at the time, and the brand was synonymous with video games.
All those who have enjoyed video games, whether we started playing in the 70’s, 80’s, or just in the last few years, should take a moment to reflect on the company that single-handedly spawned the video game industries we so cherish (https://thisdayintechhistory.com/).
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My first console dig dug was the game.38 years later and i still love video games.
Ralph Marcum
2022-07-06 06:34:23 +0000 UTC
