âIt's a tempting offer, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to take a rain check on that one.â âThanks to all of you who wrote to me with invites for free dinners and guest rooms, but it looks like I'll have to take a collective rain check.â âI've got a lot of studying to do, I'll have to take a rain check.â
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.
Atari was a defining force in both arcades and the home computers throughout the 1970s and 80s (it wasnât until 1993 that it finally shut down its computer manufacturing arm). In one form or another, it brought us everything from Pong to Tempest, Centipede to the famously dreadful E.T. The Video Game.