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Founded on
June 27th, 1972 |
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Atari (1972-1976) |
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From 1972-1973:
Nolan Bushnell (50%)
Ted Dabney (50%) |
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From 1973-1976:
Nolan Bushnell (100%) |
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Sold to Warner
Brothers, Inc. for $28,000,000 |
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Atari, Inc.
(1976-1984) |
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Warner Brothers,
Inc. |
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Sold to the
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Left at Warner
Brothers, Inc. |
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Atari Corporation
(1984-1996) |
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Atari Games
Corporation
(1984-1996) |
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Tramiel family:
about 51%,
Warner Brothers: about 25%,
Sega (1996): 7.1% |
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Warner Brothers,
Inc.
Namco, Inc. |
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Video game
consoles and computers, no coin-op business allowed |
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Coin-operated
games, video games under the Tengen-brand |
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Reverse merger
with (*) |
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Sold to |
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JTS Corp.
(1996-1998) |
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Midway Games
(1996-) |
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Stopped all
operational Atari-business and filed for bancruptcy in 1998 |
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Williams
Electronics |
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ALL rights /
properties sold to Hasbro, Inc. for $5,000,000 in cash |
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January 14, 2000 |
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ATARI
brand-name
(1998-2000) |
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Midway / Williams
officially announced to stop all activities on its brand 'Atari
Games', i.e. 'Rush 2049' (1996) |
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Hasbro
Interactive, Atari is reborn as their home-video-game label |
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will be the last
game to be published with the 'Atari Games' logo. |
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ALL rights /
properties sold to 'Infogrames' on Dec. 6th, 2000 for $100,000,000 (including ALL of 'Hasbro
Interactive') |
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ATARI
brand-name
(2000-2003) |
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May 7th, 2003 |
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Infogrames
changes its name to ATARI! |
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(*) this point marks the end of the 'old' Atari (July 30th, 1996) |
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