The History Of Atari: From Computer Space To VCS

One of the joys of big sister site Gamasutra is that we can run high quality game and company histories, something that most other sites don’t get to - and our latest is ‘The History of Atari: 1971-1977′, the first of a three-part series by Steve Fulton, which delves into the origins of the seminal game developer, publisher, and manufacturer.
Fulton, who works at Mattel and writes over at 8BitRocket.com, has already raised the subject of ‘Where is the great, all-encompassing history of Atari?’ over at his blog - so I mailed him and asked him to work on it for us.
He’s done an awesome job so far - here’s his notes on the explosion that was Atari’s Pong: “By March of 1973, Pong was deemed a bona fide phenomenon for Atari. They had sold 8,000 - 10,000 machines, and would eventually sell upwards of 35,000. The day Pong […]

Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (Simon Carless) and software by Elliott Back