Atari Corporation

For information on the Atari brand and its history, see Atari.

Atari Corporation
FormerlyTramel Technology, Ltd.
Company typePrivate
Industry
PredecessorAtari, Inc.
FoundedMay 17, 1984; 40 years ago (1984-05-17)
FounderJack Tramiel
DefunctJuly 30, 1996; 28 years ago (1996-07-30)[1]
FateMerged into JT Storage;[2] assets later acquired by Hasbro Interactive[3]
SuccessorAtari Interactive
Headquarters
Sunnyvale, California
,
U.S.
Key people
Products

Atari Corporation was an American manufacturer of home computers and video game consoles. It was founded by Jack Tramiel on May 17, 1984, as Tramel Technology, Ltd., but then took on the Atari name less than two months later when Warner Communications sold the home gaming and computing assets of Atari, Inc. to Tramiel.[4]

Its chief products were the Atari ST, Atari XE, Atari 7800, Atari Lynx and Atari Jaguar; in addition to hardware, the company also published video games for its home systems and also had an in-house development team for Lynx and Jaguar software for porting, or developing original titles such as Warbirds and Trevor McFur in the Crescent Galaxy. In 1996, the company reverse merged with JTS Corp.,[2] becoming a small de facto non-operating division which itself closed after JTS sold all Atari assets to Hasbro Interactive in 1998.[3]

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