My first system

During the 1970s, Atari Inc. Continued to grow till it had one of the biggest R&D divisions in Silicon Valley. but, it spent most of its R&D budget on projects that seemed out of place at a video game or home computer company, many of these projects never saw the light of day. In the meantime, some number of tries to bring out newer consoles failed for one reason or another, though Atari Inc.'s home computer system the Atari 8-bit family sold reasonably well, Warner was happy as it seemed to dont have end to the sales of the 2600, and Atari Inc. Was accountable for over half of the company's earning. The programmers of many of Atari Inc.'s biggest hits grew disgruntled with the company for not crediting game developers and many left the company and made their own independent software businesses. The most prominent and longest lasting of these third party developers was Activision, founded in 1980, whose titles quickly became more liked than those of Atari Inc. Itself. Atari Inc. Attempted to block third party development for the 2600 in court but failed, and soon other publishers, like Imagic and Coleco, entered the market. Atari Inc. Suffered from a picture problem when a company named Mystique made some pornographic games for the 2600. The most notorious of these, Custer's Revenge, has been protested by women's and Native American groups because it depicted General George Armstrong Custer raping a bound Native American woman. Atari Inc. Sued Mystique in court over the release of the game. Atari Inc. Continued to get licenses for the 2600, the most prominent of which included Pac Man and E.T. Public disappointment with the two titles and the market saturation of poor third party titles are cited as big contributors to the video game crash of 1983. , Atari Inc.'s growth meant it was losing big amounts of money throughout the crash, at one point about $10,000 a day. This in part led to the Atari video game burial of 1000s of unsold Atari 2600 games in the desert in New Mexico. Warner quickly grew tired of behind Atari Inc., and started looking for purchasers in 1984. By mid-1984 most software development for the 2600 had stopped except by Atari and Activision, with third party developers emphasizing ColecoVision games. though not formally discontinued, the 2600 was de emphasized for two years after Warner's 1984 sale of Atari Inc.'s buyer Division to Commodore Business Machines founder Jack Tramiel, who wanted to concentrate on home computers. He ended all development of console games, as well as a 2600 Garfield game and an Atari 5200 port of Super Pac Man. caused by a big library and a low price point, the 2600 and the 2600jr, continued to sell into the late 1980s and wasn't discontinued till 1992. The 2600 ended up outdoing all other hardware that Atari released, in try to replicate its success. The Atari 2800 is the Japanese variant of the Atari 2600, released in October 1983. It was the 1st release of a 2600 intended exactly for the Japanese market, in spite of businesses like Epoch distributing the 2600 in Japan earlier. In fact, Atari's name has been inspired by the Japanese game 'Go'. The 2800 never captured a big market in Japan. It has been released a short time after Nintendo's Family Computer, which became the dominant console in the Japanese video game market of the time. Codenamed "Cindy", and intended by Atari engineer Joe Tilly, the Atari 2800 had four controller ports instead of the standard two on the Atari 2600's. The controllers are an all in one design using a mix of an 8-direction digital joystick and a 270-degree paddle, intended by John Amber. The 2800's case design departed from the standard 2600 format, using a wedge form with non protruding switches. Around 30 specially branded games were released for the 2800. Their boxes are in Japanese and have a silver/red color scheme alike to the packaging of Atari's 2600 branded games of the time. The ROM cartridges themselves had same labels as their 2600 branded counterparts. Sears liked the design of the Atari 2800 so much, they opted to sell a variant under their Tele Games label. It has been released in the US in 1983 as the Sears Video Arcade II, and has been packaged with two controllers and Space Invaders. The Atari 2800's case style has been used as the base for the Atari 7800's case style by Barney Huang. In 1986, a new variant of the 2600 has been released. The newly redesigned variant of the 2600, unofficially called the 2600 Jr., features a smaller cost reduced form factor with a modernized Atari 7800-like look. The redesigned 2600 has been advertised as a budget gaming system under US$50 that has the capability to run a big group of classic games. The Atari 2600 continued to sell in North America and Europe till 1991, and in Asia till the early 1990s. Its last Atari licensed release is KLAX in 1990. In 2007, the Atari 2600 has been inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame, with 40 million units sold in its lifetime, and the youngest toy to be inducted. In Brazil, the console became very liked in the mid-1980s. The Atari 2600 was retired by Atari Corp. On January 1, 1992, making it, at the time, the longest lived home video game console 14 years, four months in video game history. It was afterward surpassed by the Sega Master System, a console that never formally ended production in Brazil. The Atari 2600 was as well, at the time, the best selling American made console, selling 30 million units. This record could afterward be broken by the Xbox 360, which sold 84 million units. The system has been promoted on a United Kingdom TV ad in 1989 in the run up to Christmas, in which it claimed "The fun is back.". The marketing campaign used its price of under 50 as a selling point. The advert was a re dubbed variant of the early original campaign in the United States. as well, the 2600 Jr. Was first to be packaged with a Pro Line joystick the same one used on the Atari 7800 , however when it has been released, it instead included the original CX-40 Joystick. Afterward European variants of the 2600 Jr. Included a joypad, which was shown with the European 7800.