Atari launched on June 27, 1972. Its rudimentary table tennis game called Pong and, later on, home console shifted the culture.
As the pandemic raged in 2020, a revolution played out in the entertainment world. In that year,to a whopping $179.7 billion — pulling in more money than global movies and North American sports industries combined.
That small start-up called Atari — which launched on June 27, 1972 — ended up changing the world: first with a rudimentary table tennis game called Pong and later a culture-shifting home console. It would also briefly employ Apple founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs and was an early darling of the then-burgeoning Silicon Valley tech universe.
This undated photo provided in 2007 by the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY shows an Atari video game system.As the story goes, in September of 1972, they installed Pong in Andy Capp’s Lounge, a Sunnyvale watering hole that also had a pinball machine. The next day, the bartender called to say the machine was broken.
In September of 1977, it released its best-selling Atari 2600 for $199 — ultimately selling more than 30 million units. The console featured joysticks and the ability to swap out various cartridges for popular games such as Combat and later Frogger, Pac-Man and Space Invaders.“One of the first successful attempts at getting video games in the home was Atari 2600, which would have been the first computer in the house,” said Payne. “It was really the beginning of home computation.
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