Atari

Atari was the pioneer of video games. Atari was at the height of it's popularity during the late 70's, when it dominated about 80% of the market. Unfortunately, many stupid business decisions along with the video game crash of 1983 nearly killed Atari, and in the space of about 5 years Atari's market share dropped from 80% to 1% as Nintendo and Sega took over the newly revived video game market. Today, Atari lives on as a company with a long, eventful past that any gamer should know about. Unfortunately, the past few years have been a tough time for Atari, with their sales and stock consistently going down, along with the loss of the rights to manufacture Dragon Ball Z games. Slowly, Atari is beginning to crumble, with the possibility of going out of business growing bigger and bigger every year as the company goes more and more into debt.

Information:

Business Rivals:

Nintendo (Former)

Sega (Former)

NEC (Former)

Sony (Former)

SNK Playmore (Former)

Highest Market Share Ever: 80% (1980)

Lowest Market Share Ever: Less than 1% (1995)

Best-Selling Game: Pac-Man

Best-Selling System: Atari 2600 (40 million)

Worst-Selling System: Jaguar

Most Popular Series: Unknown

Number of Systems Made: 6

List of Systems:

Atari 2600

Atari 5200

Atari 7800

Atari Lynx

Atari Lynx II

Atari Jaguar

Slogans:

None.