Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972, currently by Atari Interactive, a subsidiary of the French publisher Atari, SA (ASA). The original Atari. founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney was a pioneer in arcade games, home video game consoles, and home computers. The company's product like the Atari 2600, helped define the electronic entertainment industry from the 1970 to 1980.
In 1984, the original Atari . was split due to its role in the video game crash of 1983, and the arcade division was turned into Atari Games Inc. Atari Games received the rights to use the logo and brand name with appended text "Games" on arcade games, as well as rights to the original 1972–1984 arcade hardware properties.
In 1998, 6th of November Hasbro Interactive acquired all Atari Corporation related properties from JTS,[8] creating a new branch, Atari Interactive. Infogrames Entertainment bought Hasbro Interactive in 2001 and renamed it to Infogrames Interactive, later Atari Interactive in 2003, when Infogrames Inc. licensed the Atari name and logo from the latter and changed its name to Atari Inc., a name used for a company founded in 1993 as IESA also renamed to Infogrames, Inc. and acquired a 62% controlling interest in by 1999.
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Because it deviated from traditional MMORPG norms in a number of areas and that it focused more on player vs. player , it was marketed as competitive online role-playing game. It provides two main modes of gamepla..A cooperative role-playing component and a competitive PvP component,both of which are hosted on ArenaNet's servers. Three stand-alone episodes, one major expansion pack, and several "mini"-expansions were released in the series from April 2005 to April 2013. The games depict the history of the fictional fantasy world of Tyria; each campaign online play without subscription