Atari is basically the cool grandparent of video games — the one who still insists “back in my day, this was cutting-edge” while showing you a square that’s supposed to be a spaceship.
In the ‘70s and ‘80s, Atari was the name. They invented fun you could plug into your TV, brought arcade hits home, and gave us joysticks that doubled as medieval torture devices. Games were simple back then — you weren’t rescuing princesses or exploring open worlds, you were just a dot trying not to die from slightly faster dots.
Atari’s graphics looked like modern art drawn by a calculator, but somehow it worked. Pong? Two rectangles and a pixel. And yet, entire family feuds were born from that thing.
Then came the crash of 1983, when Atari released E.T., a game so bad it practically buried the entire industry — literally, in a desert. But hey, legends never die. Today, Atari lives on as that retro logo you see on t-shirts, reminding everyone of a time when your imagination had better graphics than your console.