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atari

n. (context video games English) An Atari video game system or computer, such as the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari%202600 or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari%20ST.

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Atari

Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972, currently by Atari Interactive, a subsidiary of the French publisher Atari, SA (ASA). The original Atari, Inc. founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney was a pioneer in arcade games, home video game consoles, and home computers. The company's products, such as Pong and the Atari 2600, helped define the electronic entertainment industry from the 1970s to the mid-1980s.

In 1984, the original Atari Inc. was split due to its role in the video game crash of 1983, and the arcade division was turned into Atari Games Inc. Atari Games received the rights to use the logo and brand name with appended text "Games" on arcade games, as well as rights to the original 1972–1984 arcade hardware properties. The Atari Consumer Electronics Division properties were in turn sold to Jack Tramiel's Tramel Technology Ltd., which then renamed itself to Atari Corporation. In 1996, Atari Corporation reverse-merged with disk-drive manufacturer JT Storage (JTS), becoming a division within the company.

In 1998, 6 November Hasbro Interactive acquired all Atari Corporation related properties from JTS, creating a new subsidiary, Atari Interactive. Infogrames Entertainment (IESA) bought Hasbro Interactive in 2001 and renamed it to Infogrames Interactive, later Atari Interactive in 2003, when Infogrames Inc. licensed the Atari name and logo from the latter and changed its name to Atari Inc., a name used for a company founded in 1993 as GT Interactive, which IESA also renamed to Infogrames, Inc. and acquired a 62% controlling interest in by 1999. After IESA's acquisition of Hasbro Interactive, Infogrames, Inc. intermittently published Atari branded titles for Infogrames Interactive. On October 11, 2008, Infogrames completed its acquisition of Atari, Inc., making it a wholly owned subsidiary.

Atari (disambiguation)

Atari could refer to:

  • Atari, a video game and computer brand name applied to various corporate entities.
    • Atari, Inc., (1972–1984) the defunct original corporation co-founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney
    • Atari Corporation, (1984–1996) the defunct corporation formed by Jack Tramiel from the original Atari Inc.'s Consumer Division assets.
    • Atari Games, (1984–2003) the coin-operated game company spun off from the original Atari Inc.'s Coin-Op division.
    • Atari, SA, (2009–present) the former Infogrames Entertainment, SA, a French holding company who owns and runs the current Atari branded divisions.
    • Atari, Inc. (Atari, SA subsidiary), (2003–present) the US division of Atari, SA
    • Atari Interactive, the current holding company of the Atari brand and a division of Atari, SA
    • Atari London Studio, the UK division of Atari, SA
  • Atari (当たり), a Japanese word used in the game of Go
  • The Ataris, an alternative rock band
  • Atari, an Italian electropop group
  • Atari, abbreviation of Finnish registry term "ammatti- ja taparikollinen" ("professional and habitual criminal") used by Finnish police
  • Atari, Natsume's pachinko branch company
  • Atari, Pakistan, town in Punjab, Pakistan.
  • Atari, Ādaži Municipality, a village in Latvia
  • Atari (name)
Atari (Jakks Pacific)

American company Jakks Pacific made two plug-n-play videogames featuring Atari games in 2003. One was the Atari Joystick and the other was the Atari Paddle.

Atari (name)

Atari may refer to the following people

Given name
  • Atari Bigby (born 1981), American football player
Surname
  • Ahmed Atari (born 1994), Qatari swimmer
  • Gali Atari (born 1953), Israeli singer and actress
  • Kousuke Atari (born 1980), Japanese singer
  • Shosh Atari (1950–2008), Israeli actress, sister of Gali

Usage examples of "atari".

He sold a game to Atari when he was ten, and he's working on another version of it now, so he won't worry or anything if I don't show up.

That's why he had all that consumer junk sitting around his house, those Trash80's and Atari's and TI's and Sinclair's, for chrissake.

I said an Atari is more complex than a neuron, but it's hard to really compare them.

Instead he and his father played number and word games, studied elementary Spanish as an introduction to Latin, plinked out simple programs on the Atari, and laughed and romped until Mommy came in and told her boys to calm down before the roof fell in on them.

When I got back, Scotty was gone, and Geoffrey and Emily had a different game in the Atari.

It took a few carriage returns to realize what was happening—the Atari was in memo-pad mode.

Again using the letter "ñ" with its Spanish value of a palatalized n (and not, as Tolkien often did, for ng as in king), one may ask whether a word like atarinya ("my father", LR:61) actually represents "atariñña".

The (nominative) plural "my fathers" would of course be atarinyar, so the singular and plural remain distinct.

In either case, a word like atarinya "my father" (that is, atariñña or atariñya) would then logically be accented on the i according to the normal rules.

Other attestations come from a source that is more definitely Quenya or at least "Qenya": In LR:61, Herendil addresses his father Elendil with the words atarinya tye-melánë, "my father, I love thee", and Elendil answers, a yonya inyë tye-méla, "and I too, my son, I love thee".

The student may remember that the ending for "my", -nya, seems to prefer -i as its connecting vowel where one is required (as in atarinya "my father", LR:61).

Maybe not, for in the Etymologies, the plural form of atar is simply atari (entry ATA-).

At about this time, the first software piracy boards began to open up, trading cracked games for the Atari 800 and the Commodore C64.

The hottest software commodities of the early 1980s were COMPUTER GAMES--the Atari seemed destined to enter every teenage home in America.