ATARI TRIVIA¢¢TEN FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ATARI¢(Atari ST Review 11/92)¢¢¢Astound and amaze your family and friends by slipping the following details about the maker of your machine into casual conversation:¢¢(1) Nolan Bushnell was the founder of Atari and wrote the first commercial video game, Pong, back in 1972. He claims that his first ever computer game was a little-known effort called Computer Space.¢¢(2) The Atari logo is a representation of Japan's famous volcano, Mount Fuji.¢¢(3) The Atari ST was first unveiled at January 1985's CES show in Las Vegas, just weeks after the Amiga's launch.¢¢(4) Atari has created over 140 coin-ops.¢¢(5) Each coin-op takes, on average, one year to produce.¢¢(6) The company's huge successes include Breakout (1976), Asteroids (1979), Missile Command (1980), Centipede (1981), Pole Position (1982), Star Wars (1983), Marble Madness (1984), Gauntlet and Paperboy (1985), and Hard Drivin' (1989).¢¢(7) Their not-so-huge successes include Cloak and Dagger, Arabian, Bomber and Smokey Joe.¢¢(8) Missile Command, which was launched by the company in 1980, was the first game to use a tracker ball.¢¢(9) Atari paid $23 million for the rights to the ET arcade game. Unfortunately, it flopped.¢¢(10) The name "Atari" is taken from the classic Japanese boardgame, Go. An atari is the equivalent of 'check' in chess.¢¢¢¢Conversion to DOC file by S.J.Murray,¢North Of Scotland Atari User Group,¢14th October, 1992.¢
