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 later decided to re-enter the games market with a design that closely matched their original 1978 specifications. In its prototype stage, the Atari 5200 was originally called the Atari Video System X - Advanced Video Computer System, and was codenamed Pam after a female employee at Atari Inc.