![]() ![]() In its first year, Atari sold 70,000 arcade cabinets for $150 million and made $500 million in quarters – not a bad start to a franchise that would become synonymous with home video games and an iconic form of entertainment in the minds of a generation. Readers of a certain age will remember “Asteroids” – the wildly popular arcade game that made its debut in 1979 and again in 1981 with the release of the Atari 2600 home video game console.Īs the story goes, it was Lyle Rains, an executive with Atari, who one day walked into the office of his colleague, Ed Logg, and declared, “Well, why don’t we have a game where you shoot rocks and blow them up?” ![]()
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