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