Atari Flashback 2

During the 70s, the Atari stood out to produce dozens of games for arcade. Time later, Nolan Bushnell sold the company to Warner, who had made an offer irrefutable. Over time, there was a "clash" between the new direction and Nolan Bushnell porcausa manage it differently from the company, and also annoying the magnates who had bought the compainha. This culminated with Nolan Bushnell being fired. The first console was the Atari VCS (Video Computer System), produced in 1977. Its price was too high (around $ 200) and a succession of new console was launched to try to establish a secure source of income, until, in 1978, launched the Atari 2600, by far his biggest success (and later the icon of company). New consoles were launched with more features later (like the Atari 5200, the Lynx handheld, and the latest Jaguar), but none came close to the marks achieved by the sale in 2600 during the 80s. There were hundreds of companies producing games (up to thousands of titles) for 2600, including SEGA, the Joint, and Nintendo. Sales began to fall in the United States between 1983 and 1984. In Brazil was launched in 1983 by the Gradient and continued as the most popular video game until the end of the decade, when the EMS entered the market with the Master System. Still, you can find today developers and small companies producing new games compatible with this console.

The failure to face large brands to emerge from the "third generation" of video games, 8-bit Atari caused the financial problems. In the early 90s, the company invested in portable Lynx, which has not had the same acceptance as the Game Boy competitor of Nintendo. In 1993 launched, in partnership with IBM, the Jaguar, 64-bit console, and the most advanced of its time. But the lack of games and high price of equipment has meant that sales never did, and later eclipsed by Nintendo with the Nintendo 64 as well as Sony, with its first console, the PlayStation.

Throughout the 90s, the inability to monitor the Atari consoles in the market resulted in the sale of its divisions for various computer companies, ending with the sale of own brand to Infogrames in 2001. Since then, the USA company name and logo of the original Atari in their products, and thus produced a successful games, such as the Civilization series.

source : ciao.com