Atari's Last Home Console - The Atari Jaguar
89With the AtariBox slowly stealing headlines, it’s an interesting opportunity to look back at what Atari means to you. The original company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney mostly dealt with cutting-edge arcade entertainment. Releasing games like Pong, Asteroids and Space Invaders into the arcades and eventually, on their Atari VCS home console (later named the Atari 2600).
In the mid-80’s, Atari was split into two departments. Atari Games was set up to continue work on arcade titles and Atari Electronics to handle home consoles and computer systems. It was at this point Jack Tramiel’s company, Tramel Technology Inc, developed the Atari ST range of personal computers and later on, Atari home consoles like the Atari Lynx and the Atari Jaguar.
For a lot of people, including me, this incarnation of the Atari Corporation stood as the last remnants of the organization that created those amazing games that hooked me as a kid. The same corporation that rolled out Atari’s swansong systems before being dissolved into a data storage company in 1996.
The AtariBox has been labeled the latest Atari system, but the company that built the name since the 70’s was effectively stood down and dismissed after the Atari Jaguar failed to compete with the Sega Saturn and Sony Playstation.
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https://medium.com/@chrisbruiser/ataris-last-console-meet-the-jaguar-b4f02ed08ecb
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