What destroyed Atari?
Warshaw also believes that Atari’s downfall was more a result of their business practices—including alleged block booking of poorly selling games with successful ones when dealing with distributors—than any specific failed games. In 1986, Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi noted that Atari collapsed because they gave too much freedom to third-party developers and the market was swamped with rubbish games.GameSpy’s Classic Gaming called E. T. Atari’s biggest mistake, as well as the largest financial failure in the industry. Reiley commented that the game’s poor quality was responsible for ending the product life of the Atari 2600.
When did space invaders come out on the Atari 2600?
Space Invaders was released for the Atari 2600 on March 10, 1980. At its release in 1978, Space Invaders was a cultural and technological phenomenon, and its appeal endures strongly to this day.