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I decided to withdraw some money from my account, and was told I would receive an email within one business day confirming the transaction.

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Id never expect a game like this, to me its better then every other retro game.

During its years of operation, it developed and produced over 350 arcade, console, and computer games for its own systems, and almost 100 ports of games for home computers such as the Commodore 64.

Atari began its operations by developing and producing some of the first arcade video games; the first commercial arcade video game, Computer Space, was released in November 1971 by Atari founders Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in partnership as Syzygy Engineering.

The game in part marked the end of the early history of video games and the start of the rise of the commercial video game industry.

After its founding in 1972, Atari released Pong, believed to be the third arcade video game after Computer Space and a clone game and the first commercially successful arcade video game machine, 2 and thereafter produced numerous arcade games, including video games and pinball machines.

In the early 1970s, distributors bought games on an exclusive basis, meaning that only one distributor in each distribution region would carry products from a given arcade game manufacturer, restricting the manufacturer to only the operators that distributor sold to.

In 1973 Atari set up a secret subsidiary company, Kee Games, which was intended to sell clones of Ataris games in order to reach more distributors; Kee was merged with Atari the following year.

From that point onward Atari developed both arcade games and console games, and in 1979 added games for their first home computers, the Atari 400 and 800.

Atari produced a second home video game console in 1982, the Atari 5200, and four more home computer versions.

Atari Games Software Written For

Beginning in Summer 1981, Atari published the Atari Program Exchange, a quarterly mail-order catalog of software written for Atari computers by external developers which Atari then distributed to customers.

In May 1983, Atari started the Atarisoft division, which produced ports of games by Atari and others for non-Atari home computers.

In July 1984, as a result of falling sales due to the video game crash of 1983, Atari, Inc.

When different, these variant names are listed in the table below.

The History of Atari: 1971-1977.

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