 Logo used until 1996 | |
| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Video games |
| Predecessor | Atari, Inc. |
| Founded | January 11, 1985 |
| Founder | Warner Communications |
| Defunct | February 7, 2003 (disbanded by Midway) |
| Fate | Merged into and later closed by Midway Games |
| Headquarters | 675 Sycamore Dr., , |
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Number of employees | 700 |
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| Divisions | Tengen |
Atari Games Corporation was an American producer of arcade video games, active from 1985 to 1999, then as Midway Games West Inc. until 2003. It was formed when the coin-operated video game division of Atari, Inc. was transferred by its owner Warner Communications to a joint venture with Namco, being one of several successor companies to use the name Atari.
The company developed and published games for arcades under the Atari brand, and across consumer home systems such as the Commodore 16, Commodore 64, Game Boy, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and others using the Tengen label for legal reasons. Some of the games Atari Games had developed include Tetris, Road Runner, RoadBlasters, Primal Rage, Hard Drivin' and San Francisco Rush.
Atari Games effectively operated independently from 1987, when Namco sold its controlling stake, until Time Warner reassumed full ownership in 1994, and it was consolidated into Time Warner Interactive. In 1996, Atari Games was sold to WMS Industries, and the company then became part of Midway Games when that company was spun-off by WMS in 1998. After dropping the Atari name, it ceased operations in 2003; its former assets were later sold back to Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (now Warner Bros. Games) in 2009 following Midway's bankruptcy.
- ^ "Overseas Readers Column: Namco Purchases Atari Games Inc" (PDF). Game Machine. No. 255. Amusement Press, Inc. March 1, 1985. p. 24. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 2, 2019.
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