Atari: 7 Facts About the Video-Game Pioneer

Bulletin Today | LegacyIf you were a teen or young adult in the 1970s and 1980s, the brand-name Atari was synonymous with cutting-edge cool — and not just because of that classic 1978 TV commercial in which a little kid bests Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.  From iconic arcade video games such as Pong and Asteroids to a line of early home gaming consoles that gradually evolved into personal computers, Atari — in its various corporate incarnations under different owners — did more than its share …