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Atari Inc. Business is Fun now available for immediate shipping
After a very long process and a lot of starts and stops, the book is finally available for immediate purchase and shipping.
The full detailing of Atari from its primordial incubation within the hallways of AMPEX from 1969 to it colossal rise up to a $2 billion juggernaut and its $538million death spiral and split up by June 1984.
This a full detailing of Atari, its details and days from Winchester Blvd to its Corporate HQ in Sunnyvale, CA. there is a great deal of details of the stories and history, told directly by the employee's themselves, cross-checked with many other employee's and backed by memo's, court documents, rare and never before seen photo's, all detailing Atari's days of struggles and triumphs.
With nearly 300 pages of photos, docs and materials included in this 800 page book, you will get an in-depth read of Atari's coin-op, research, consumer, computer, marketing and much more. Plus very detailed side-stories on things such as "Rick Rat's Big Cheese Restaurant" which would become "Chuck E Cheese", Atari's very own "Xerox PARC" research center in the Sierra Foothills where their first project with a wireless Pong arcade machine! to details on Atari's far reaching and near disasterous global expansion and management changes that nearly put Atari out of business in 1974 before it even got off the ground. Another important story, one not even properly told in Walter Isaacson's "Steve Jobs" book is the accurate and fully detailed history of Steve Jobs employment at Atari, the REAL story behind Breakout and what happened, including direct information from Steve Wozniak who contributed to that chapter.
If you love Atari, or have a friend or family member who does, this will make THE perfect gift for yourself or someone else:
https://www.createspace.com/3928085
If you're not in a rush and want to wait till January 2013, order through this link and get an additional $5.00 off the price:
http://tinyurl.com/bs7kor8
www.ataribook.com
After a very long process and a lot of starts and stops, the book is finally available for immediate purchase and shipping.
The full detailing of Atari from its primordial incubation within the hallways of AMPEX from 1969 to it colossal rise up to a $2 billion juggernaut and its $538million death spiral and split up by June 1984.
This a full detailing of Atari, its details and days from Winchester Blvd to its Corporate HQ in Sunnyvale, CA. there is a great deal of details of the stories and history, told directly by the employee's themselves, cross-checked with many other employee's and backed by memo's, court documents, rare and never before seen photo's, all detailing Atari's days of struggles and triumphs.
With nearly 300 pages of photos, docs and materials included in this 800 page book, you will get an in-depth read of Atari's coin-op, research, consumer, computer, marketing and much more. Plus very detailed side-stories on things such as "Rick Rat's Big Cheese Restaurant" which would become "Chuck E Cheese", Atari's very own "Xerox PARC" research center in the Sierra Foothills where their first project with a wireless Pong arcade machine! to details on Atari's far reaching and near disasterous global expansion and management changes that nearly put Atari out of business in 1974 before it even got off the ground. Another important story, one not even properly told in Walter Isaacson's "Steve Jobs" book is the accurate and fully detailed history of Steve Jobs employment at Atari, the REAL story behind Breakout and what happened, including direct information from Steve Wozniak who contributed to that chapter.
If you love Atari, or have a friend or family member who does, this will make THE perfect gift for yourself or someone else:
https://www.createspace.com/3928085
If you're not in a rush and want to wait till January 2013, order through this link and get an additional $5.00 off the price:
http://tinyurl.com/bs7kor8
www.ataribook.com



