Atari Atari Atari SA () is a French corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972, currently by Atari Interactive, a subsidiary of the French publisher Atari, SA. The original Atari, Inc., founded in Sunnyvale, California 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. In 1984, as a result of the video game crash of 1983, the original Atari Inc. was
Access Games Access Games Access Games Inc. is a Japanese company specializing in the planning, development and distribution of video games and the research, development and distribution of software, data and video media. The company was originally founded in 1996 as a computer graphics producer. On January 16, 2002, the company launched a game development division and re-established itself as primarily a video game company. On September 30, 2003, Access Games became a wholly owned subsidiary of Digital Media Lab, in turn a subsidiary of Kaga Electronics. The head office is located in Chūō, Tokyo, but the company's development departments are located