Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded Atari in June 1972. Within five months, their first product, Pong, revolutionized the gaming industry. Atari quickly followed with other arcade games. The Atari Video Computer System (VCS) was introduced in 1977, selling millions of game cartridges over the next 15 years.

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Nolan Bushnell, Atari’s founder, sold the company to Warner Communications in 1976. Following the video game collapse of 1983, Warner renamed the company Atari Corporation and sold its divisions for home computers and video game consoles to Jack Tramiel, the former founder of Commodore. Warner retained Atari’s coin-operated game business, which remained known as Atari Games.

Former Atari HQ Sunnyvale, CA