Atari

	Founded on June 27th, 1972
	Atari (1972-1976)
	From 1972-1973: Nolan Bushnell (50%) Ted Dabney (50%)
	From 1973-1976: Nolan Bushnell (100%)

	Sold to Warner Brothers, Inc. for $28,000,000
	Atari, Inc. (1976-1984)
	Warner Brothers, Inc.

Sold to the Tramiel's		Left at Warner Brothers, Inc.
Atari Corporation (1984-1996)		Atari Games Corporation (1984-1996)
Tramiel family: about 51%, Warner Brothers: about 25%, Sega (1996): 7.1%		Warner Brothers, Inc. Namco, Inc.
Video game consoles and computers, no coin-op business allowed		Coin-operated games, video games under the Tengen-brand

Reverse merger with		Sold to
JTS Corp. (1996-1998)		Midway Games (1996-)
Stopped all operational Atari-business and filed for bancruptcy in 1998		Williams Electronics

Sold ALL rights / properties to Hasbro, Inc. for $5,000,000 in cash		January 14, 2000
ATARI brand-name (1998-2000)		Midway / Williams officially announced to stop all activities on its brand "Atari Games", i.e. "Rush 2049" (1996) will be the last game to be published with the "Atari Games" logo.
Hasbro Interactive, Atari is reborn as their home-video-game label

Sold ALL rights / properties to "Infogrames", for $100,000,000 (including ALL of "Hasbro Interactive")
ATARI brand-name (2000-)

Jan. 14, 2000: Midway / Williams officially stopped all activities on its "Atari Games" brand.

Dec. 6th, 2000: The "Atari" label has been sold to "Infogrames" (along with all of "Hasbro Interactive"), a french third-party-developer, for $100,000,000!