From its peak to its crash: The story of the Atari 2600 that created (and destroyed) an industry.
Released in 1977, the Atari 2600 was responsible for showing the world that video games could be an industry and that it was much more than just a toy. At the same time, Atari ended up a victim of its own success. Learn about the history of the Atari 2600 and the curious story of how it arrived in Brazil and inaugurated the video game industry – and also ended up creating an industry of clones.
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Video excerpts:
00:00 Start
00:56 The tech scene in California
01:41 Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at Atari?
03:08 Project Stella
04:23 Atari VCS is presented
05:42 The developers' revolt
07:28 Activision inaugurates independent development
09:00 Pac-Man, ET and the buried cartridges
11:08 Competition with PCs and the video game crash
13:16 Nintendo's Atari?
14:23 Warner sells Atari
14:44 Atari in Brazil
15:36 Atari Eletrônica LTDA and the first clone
16:59 The race of clones
17:33 Atari officially arrives in Brazil
18:48 Atari loses momentum in Brazil
19:28 Legacy and Atari today