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Atari, Inc. is a majority owned subsidiary of Infogrames Entertainment SA ...more on Wikipedia about "Atari"

Atari Games was an American producer of arcade games, and originally part of Atari Inc. When, in 1984, Warner Communications sold the computer and game console divisions of Atari Inc. to Jack Tramiel (who renamed his company "Atari Corporation"), Warner initially retained the arcade coin-op division, renaming it "Atari Games". ...more on Wikipedia about "Atari Games"

The Atari Mindlink was an unreleased controller for the Atari 2600. It was intended for release in 1984. The Mindlink was unique in that to control the game, you had to move the muscles in your head to control the game. These movements would be read by infrared sensors and transferred as movement in the game. Games would be similar to ones that used the paddle controller, but with the Mindlink instead. Though the Mindlink was an interesting idea, it was not executed well, and way before it's time. Testing showed that players frequently got headaches moving their eyebrows around to play the game. Though Atari could have refined and perfected the device over time, Atari simply decided to shelve the Mindlink. 2 games were in development for the Mindlink by it's cancellation, Bionic Breakthrough & Mind Maze. Bionic Breakthrough was basically Breakout controlled with the Mindlink, while Mind Maze was an attempt to use ESP through the Mindlink to predict what is printed on cards, which admittedly didn't work. Neither game would see release in a joystick or paddle controlled form in later years, partly due to the failing video game industry, partly due to the games' limited appeal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Atari Mindlink"

The Atari Portfolio, launched by Atari in 1989, was the first PC-compatible palmtop computer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Atari Portfolio"

The Atari Transputer Workstation (also known as ATW-800, or simply ATW) was a workstation class computer released by Atari in the late 1980s. Based on the INMOS Transputer, the machine was considerably more powerful than anything available on the market at the time. ...more on Wikipedia about "Atari Transputer Workstation"

Atarisoft is a brand name used by Atari in the 1980s to market both their own video games as well as the ones they published for home computers from their competitors such as the Commodore 64, the Apple II, the Colecovision, and the Mattel Intellivision. IBM PC ( DOS) games were sold in blue packaging so they could be identified with IBM due to its "Big Blue" nickname, games for the Apple were sold in red. ...more on Wikipedia about "Atarisoft"

Bernard "Bernie" Stolar worked in the video game industry for several important companies. His career started at Atari where he worked initially in the coin-op arcade division and eventually moved over to the home division being in charge of platforms like Atari Lynx. Before the US release of the PlayStation game console, Sony made Stolar the first president of SCEA and in charge of the PlayStation platform. Stolar ruled with an iron fist and forced some unpopular policies with regard to titles licensed including a "no-RPG" policy seeing as RPGs at the time were almost all 2D, didn't sell well in North America and in his opinion failed to show the power of the PlayStation in a positive light. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bernie Stolar"

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Jack Tramiel (born 1928) is a businessman, famous for founding Commodore International, manufacturer of the Commodore 64 and Commodore Amiga home computers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jack Tramiel"

Jay Glenn Miner ( May 31, 1932 - June 20, 1994) was a famous microprocessor designer, known primarily for his work in multimedia chips. He received a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 1958. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jay Miner"

Kee Games was an arcade game manufacturer that released games from 1973 to 1978. Kee was headed by Joe Keenan, a long-time friend of Atari founder Nolan Bushnell. Keenan managed to hire several defectors from Atari, and began advertising itself as a competitor. In reality, Kee Games was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Atari, created in response to the pinball and arcade distributors of the time who demanded exclusivity deals. Kee Games released several "clones" of Atari games, allowing Atari to "exclusively" sell games to two distributors at once. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kee Games"

Nolan Bushnell (born February 5 1943 in Clearfield, Utah) is the founder of Atari, Inc. (now owned by Infogrames) and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters chain. He and Ralph Baer are widely recognized as leading pioneers of the video game industry. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nolan Bushnell"

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