Atari- Introducing 80s kids to home gaming
As famous as Atari was in the 1980s, it struggled in the years after its 1977 release. They had to compete with Intellivision, which was marketed as “sophisticated and graphically superior,” and ColecoVision, a short-lived but high quality gaming system. But in 1978, they had the foresight to license home games of wildly popular games like Space Invaders and Asteroids.
But the biggest boom to the home gaming industry came in 1982, when Atari adapted a maze-and-chase game into a game cartridge for their moderately priced home gaming console. The game was Pac-Man. It was a raging success for Atari, selling over 7 million copies of the game and increasing sales of the Atari console.
