| 1972 | Atari Inc. founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. The arcade game "Pong" becomes a big hit! |
| 1973 | Ted Dabney sells his half of Atari Inc. to Nolan Bushnell |
| 1974 | Joe Keenan is made President of Atari Inc. |
| 1975 | Atari Inc. releases Home Pong. |
| 1976 | Atari Inc. sold by Bushnell to Warner Inc. for $28,000,000. |
| 1977 | Atari Inc. releases the Atari VCS, the world's most successful video-game-system. |
| 1978 | Atari Corp. launches its home computer division, Bushnell leaves Atari. |
| 1979 | Atari releases the 400 and 800 line of home computers. |
| 1980 | Atari Inc. posts record sales. $2 billion profits annually. Atari occupies 80 offices in Sunnyvale, CA. |
| 1981 | Atari Inc. releases the Atari 400 and Atari 800 home-computers. |
| 1982 | Atari releases the Atari 5200 Super System. The Atari VCS is renamed to Atari 2600. |
| 1983 | Atari replaces the 400/800/1200XL line of home computers with the 600XL and the 800XL. Atari Inc. faces record losses of $536,000,000, (up to $2,000,000 daily). |
| 1984 | Warner divides Atari Inc. The home division (Atari Corp.) is sold to Jack Tramiel. The 5200 is cancelled! |
| 1985 | Atari Corp. releases the Atari ST home computer series and replaces the 600XL and 800XL home computers with the 65XE and the 130XE computers. |
| 1986 | Atari Corp. releases the Atari 7800 console. |
| 1987 | Atari Corp. announces the XE Game System |
| 1988 | Atari Corp. announces the signing of Nolan Bushnell to develop games for the Atari VCS. |
| 1989 | Atari Corp. releases the Atari Lynx, the world's first color hand-held video game system; but only in New York and Los Angeles. Atari releases the Atari "Portfolio", the smallest IBM-compatible computer. |
| 1990 | Atari releases the Lynx nationwide. |
| 1991 | Rumours about the "Panther", a 32bit video-game-console by Atari; project stopped; 64bit-project announced, called Jaguar; Lynx II released. |
| 1992 | Atari announces the Jaguar to be released in 1993. |
| 1993 | Atari Games becomes Time-Warner Interactive. Atari Corp. releases the Atari Jaguar 64, the world's first 64-bit home video game system. |
| 1994 | Atari Corp. stops supporting the Lynx. |
| 1995 | Atari Corp. releases the Jaguar CD-ROM. |
| 1996 | Atari Corp. merges with JTS Corporation, a small manufacturer of hard disk drives for personal computers. Time-Warner Interactive (Atari Games) sold to WMS. |
| 1997 | All Atari-operations are stopped at JTS. |
| 1998 | Hasbro acquires the rights to Atari Corp.'s name and properties from JTS Corporation for $5,000,000 in cash! |
| 1999 | Hasbro declares the Jaguar as an "open" system; Atari is reborn as their new home video game label. |
| 2000 | Many different game-titles to be announced for the Jaguar 64 and the Atari Lynx... |
| 2000 |
"Infogrames" acquires rights to the "Atari" label... |