Amazon Prime's documentary Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of ATARI told of a small group of "hackers" who developed some technology for the arcade (although their original arcade-games were sold to bars, and the arcade-game industry was a little bit of a mafia-business), who then developed the technology into home Video Computer Systems, who then fell apart when things started developing 'too fast' ...
Or maybe I forget their explanations of the many factors that played into their 'fate.' But I was a little distracted by a) a timeline that happened a little earlier than I remember & b) their failure to mention ATARI's 130XE (nor the 400, nor the 800XL; though they mentioned the 2600 and the 7800)!
Their timeline put most of the video-game stuff in the late-'70s/early-'80s; I was born in '81, and didn't even think they'd invented computers/video-games until 1985! (and to my mind, the technological advancement (in that arena) went 'ATARI 130XE, Commodore 64, Nintendo, Sega, Sega Genesis, XBox ...' with Apple & Microsoft etc. throwing in computers that could sometimes handle the graphics involved
(of course, my perspective might be limited due to my living a) 'way out' in the Plains States (Oklahoma) and b) in a middle-class bracket.)
The word “ATARI” is built on ancient words that mean |Check! (as announced in Chess, but 'Atari' is the word used in the Japanese strategy-game Go).
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