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Where did the name come from? Reply to this topic Start new topic. Recommended Posts. Posted August 12, Just wondered if anyone knows where the name Atari comes from also the numbe ? Was there prototypes? Thanks Ezram. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites. Thanks they probably just made the number up! Posted August 12, edited. Edited August 12, by spacecadet. Lord Thag. Apologies for going way off-topic, but I love the word "syzygy". Six consonants! Posted August 16, Join the conversation You can post now and register later.
Reply to this topic Go To Topic Listing. Recently Browsing 0 members No registered users viewing this page. Sign In Sign Up. MOS Technology had just introduced an 8-bit MPU, the , that was far cheaper than competing devices from more established vendors. Zilog would introduce a similarly inexpensive Z80 the following year. Atari contacted MOS Technology and asked for a smaller version of the MOS Technology chip, and MOS obliged with the , which was in essence a in a smaller package 28 pins versus 40 for the Output would also have to be standardized.
Where arcade games had built-in displays, a home console would take advantage of the display that was already in nearly every household—a television screen. Atari designed circuitry to output video and sound to television sets, resulting in a custom integrated circuit IC that Atari called the Television Interface Adaptor. The other major system components were the memory cartridge and the game controller. The memory cartridges were ROM read-only memory modules, which stored game instructions to be executed by the microprocessor and associated circuitry.
The modules could be easily swapped in and out: different module, different game. Family Fun: The Atari was based on a commodity microprocessor and played games stored on read-only-memory cartridges, two features that would soon become common in the emerging computer-game industry. The system was designed to be connected to an ordinary television set, which the Atari used as a screen bottom photo. It is worth noting that the success of the module approach inspired the creation of a new industry.
Several former Atari engineers left to form Activision , widely regarded as the first third-party game developer. Atari perceived third-party development as a threat, by the way, but eventually acceded to an arrangement in which it would collect royalties from other game developers.
The first game controller s, meanwhile, were joysticks and dial controllers. Other input devices followed, including trackballs, paddles, and a keypad. After its introduction in , the Atari sold well enough for the first couple of years. But sales really soared in , when the company began marketing a licensed version of the game Space Invaders. Atari built on that success with the release the following year of two of its own titles, Asteroids and Missile Command. The company undermined itself with poor-quality games, however, including a title associated with the film E.
Atari was already reeling when the U. The collapse had a combination of causes, including market saturation and competition from personal computers, which were an even more general-purpose form of hardware. Along the way, Atari was sold, and sold again. Still, the line survived. The last was released in What was innovative in the may now seem pedestrian, but that merely underlines how innovative the was.
The principles on which it was built and that it helped to popularize—general-purpose hardware and separate software—have endured for over 40 years.
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The company quickly rolled out other arcade games. Warner Communications bought Atari in When a market glut crashed the game industry in , Atari tried to cope by shifting its focus to home computers, a stopgap on the road to declining profits and further mergers. Chapter Menu 1. Friction with Warner. The primitive video hardware gave it a reputation as one of the most complex machines to program. The hot tub in his office helped too. Cheese game and pizza chain.
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