Atari’s Post

Now y'all have to track down ColecoVision.

What does this mean for the Amico?

Atari has always been everywhere: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/apple-nintendo-could-have-been-unknown-lars-johansson 😁

The start of NES came from my ownership of Atari that I was given at 2 yrs old. Paul Allen and I had reimagined gaming systems and developed Nintendo Entertainment Systems with some money from Atari worked for several years on and off on developing a new gaming console...Steve Wazniak got involved. With some Activision money we reimagined video game console games, amd cartridge systems to start ELectronic Arts. Our business plan for NES went as planned and we paid back Atari...then bought Atari...then bought Sony. With Electrinic arts...the business went as planned for about 6 months with video game coding and a newer more detailed and capable cartridge system. But, we expanded into R&D in projects in sciences to help improve video game reality and VR systems development and computer modeling development. EA is still the. World's largest r&d company including all computer modeling, all r&d for military, R&D for sciences. It all was started through Atari. Activision was a subsidiary of Atari.

Atari is where innovation goes to wither away, which is funny because in the past Atari was the helm of innovation. Not to offend, but I remember what Atari did last time it tried to innovate in web3, and it was so out of touch with consumers and failed to adapt and innovate. These 2 brands will get along in the “Resort” of big money bags that just keep things going because it’s good for pockets, without actually doing anything definitive or exciting in the space.

To compete with the Atari 2600, Mattel came up with some pretty innovative tech. As a young electrical/software engineer, better video & sound chips, and some clever controllers caught my eye, but I never got hooked by the game play. I shifted interest to the Arari 800 as both a game console and a programmer-friendly PC. I am interested in seeing what Atari will do with the Intellivision brand & IP. I already received ads for Intellivisions swag from my Atari VCS feeds, lol.

Amazing! Can’t wait to see what comes next.

https://atari.com/blogs/newsroom/atari-acquires-intellivision-brand

My first console was an Atari 7800 and I'm afraid that I wasn't familiar with the Intellivision. However, after watching this video covering the history of the console, it's interesting to see the economics behind the product lifecycle here. There are still lessons that apply to the SaaS market today around supply and demand, brand positioning, product development cycles, and it's relationship with #pricing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhlDH46BzJ0 #branding #videogames #MarketingStrategy #businesshistory #productdevelopment #brandpositioning

Back many years ago, before the 2600 was launched I was a very little kid was introduced into the Twin Cities Atari facilities to make a decision on what to have Atari make. There were four systems. The 2600 Atari gaming console. A home pc style computer like the apple 2c, a small business network system with a hub (4 work stations and main computer), and the super computer. The advanced system Atari really was in technology was the supercomputer they had in 1979 was equivalent to what IBM achieved in the late 1980's and what Cray achieved in the early 1990's. They were more than 10 yrs ahead of their time. I had spent several years with Steve wazniak, Steve Jobs, Paul Allen and Bill gates and the Atari teams were the superior in computer technology. I had a very tough decision that made me cry. I had to decide what to scrap and what to make for production to sell for money. The supercomputer had two customers. IbM and Atari, the hub system had about 150 customers, large to.medium business, and the home pc, seversl.hundred thousand. The 2600..millions of customers.. I cried the world's top engineers in computers had the best supercomputer and I couldn't sell it. 😢 I had to scrap that supercomputer buy told the team keep a record