Atari produced a second home video game console in 1982, the Atari 5200, and four more home computer versions. From that point onward Atari developed both arcade games and console games, and in 1979 added games for their first home computers, the Atari 400 and 800. In 1975 Atari released Home Pong, its first of several Pong-based dedicated video game consoles, and in 1977 released its first home video game console, the Atari Video Computer System (later renamed the Atari 2600). Atari itself was sold to Warner Communications in 1976 and merged with Warner's WCI Games division, keeping the name Atari, Inc. In 1973 Atari set up a secret subsidiary company, Kee Games, which was intended to sell clones of Atari's games in order to reach more distributors Kee was merged with Atari the following year. In the early 1970s, distributors bought games on an exclusive basis, meaning that only one distributor in each distribution region would carry products from a given arcade game manufacturer, restricting the manufacturer to only the operators that distributor sold to. The arcade game market is split into manufacturers, distributors, and operators manufacturers like Atari sell game machines to distributors-who handle several types of electronic machines-who in turn sell them to the operators of locations. After its founding in 1972, Atari released Pong, believed to be the third arcade video game after Computer Space and a clone game and the first commercially successful arcade video game machine, and thereafter produced numerous arcade games, including video games and pinball machines. The game in part marked the end of the early history of video games and the start of the rise of the commercial video game industry. Atari began its operations by developing and producing some of the first arcade video games the first commercial arcade video game, Computer Space, was released in November 1971 by Atari founders Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in partnership as Syzygy Engineering. During its years of operation, it developed and produced over 350 arcade, console, and computer games for its own systems, and almost 100 ports of games for home computers such as the Commodore 64. was an American video game developer and video game console and home computer development company which operated between 19. For the games produced by the second company by that name, see List of Atari, Inc.
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