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The Rise and Fall of Atari Print E-mail
Nick Greeley, Monday, 05 May 2008

AtariWith the recent buyout of Atari by competitor Infogrames , the history of Atari has been a hot topic lately.

Retroblast! reader Phillip has pointed out a nice blog entry over at Neatorama chronicaling the Rise and Fall of Atari as it were:

From the site:

"If you know anything about the pop culture of the 1970s, the name Atari is synonymous with video games.  So what happened? Where did Atari go? Here’s the story."

Check it out, and thanks again to Phillip for pointing it out to us!

The Rise and Fall of Atari 

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