... come up with unique ideas and then copyright them to avoid competitors using his ideas. The next year Atari released a racing game, a football game, and their famous tank game (http://hmk.best.vwh.net/ahistory.htm). By the end of 1974 Atari had developed a home version of Pong. ... that would feature home entertainment. The growth and expansion of the first Atari products were phenomenal. Atari jump-started the home video game industry by being the first company to seriously leverage 8-bit microprocessor technology exclusively through video games. Atari made headlines being the first ....

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