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the finding of Atari
- Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney started Atari (a term from the Japanese game Go)
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a few years after the release
In 1975, Atari re-released Pong as a home video game and 150,000 units were sold -
Atari being sold
In 1976, Nolan Bushnell sold Atari to Warner Communications for $28 million. -
415 million
. By 1980, sales of Atari home video systems had reached $415 million. -
atari computor
in 1980 the first Atari personal computer was introduced. Nolan Bushnell was still employed as president of the company. -
reversal of fortune
Warner had a reversal of fortune with Atari with losses totaling $533 million in 1983. -
and it ends
in 1998, JTS sold Atari assets as intellectual property scraps. All copyrights, trademarks, and patents were sold to Hasbro Interactive for $5 million.
