The Atari brand is 50 years old today
From VGC: "Although the current company that owns the Atari brand name has only done so since 2001, the original Atari Inc was founded on June 27, 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney.
The company was named after a move in the Japanese board game Go. In the game, ‘atari’ means a player’s stones are in danger of being taken by their opponent.
Bushnell and Dabney had previously released Computer Space, the first ever commercial arcade video game, in 1971. The following year the pair set up Atari and hired design engineer Al Alcorn, who then designed Pong, the first commercially successful video game."
