Company Profile
ATARI
Company Overview
Celebrating its 20th birthday this year, Atari has grown to become one of the world largest publishers of interactive entertainment software, at the forefront of the fastest growing and most lucrative sector in entertainment.
Atari publishes and distributes video games for all major consoles, including the Sony PlayStation game console and PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, the Xbox from Microsoft, the Nintendo GameCube system, Nintendo GameBoy Color and GameBoy Advanced, and the Macintosh and personal computer. With hard-core, genre-defining games such as Driver, Enter the Matrix, Neverwinter Nights, Stuntman, Test Drive., Unreal. Tournament 2003, and Unreal. Championship; and mass-market and children's games such as Backyard Sports, Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues and Dora the Explorer, Civilization., Dragon Ball Z. and RollerCoaster Tycoon., the future is bright for Atari
Today, Atari has more than 700 employees in the U.S., with extensive operations worldwide and a management team of industry veterans with strong backgrounds in all forms of entertainment. Creativity and passion drive everything we do at Atari. From game development to marketing and sales, Atari thrives on the energy of its employees. We understand that work and fun CAN go hand in hand, and we prove it every day.
Although is an established industry leader, it's our entrepreneurial spirit and contagious energy set us apart from the rest.
Company History
Founded in 1983 by Bruno Bonnell and Christophe Sapet, Atari today has more than 1,800 employees worldwide (approximately 60% in Europe and 40% in the U.S.). A publicly traded company, Atari is one of the top five publishers of interactive entertainment software in the world and is widely regarded for developing and distributing quality games for the mass entertainment audience.
Atari comprises two main subsidiaries: 1) the U.S. based, publicly traded Atari (NASDAQ National Market under the symbol “ATAR.”) and 2) Infogrames Entertainment, SA, (Euronext trading code “5257”)which represents the Company's original operations. Atari includes the former GT Interactive and Infogrames; Atari also manages the former Hasbro Interactive on behalf of its parent company.
Notable Products / Brands
With more than 1,000 titles in its global catalog, Atari is one of the world's largest publishers of interactive games. The Company's products span all genres of entertainment and include some of the industry's leading franchises and some of the world's most recognizable licenses. Key Franchises Alone in the Dark Backyard Sports Big Price Civilization Deer Hunter Driver Freddi Fish Independence War Oddworld Pajama Sam Putt Putt RollerCoaster Tycoon Test Drive Unreal Tournament V-Rally Key Licenses Asterix Digimon Dragon Ball Z Le Mans 24 Hours Looney Tunes Lucky Luke Men In Black Mission: Impossible The Matrix NASCAR Smurfs Superman Survivor Terminator Tintin Publishing Atari's products are developed internally at development studios owned and/or managed by the Company around the world, as well as as with external development studios whom the Company contracts to develop specific properties. Over the years, Atari has cultivated relationships with many of the industry's most widely regarded development studios: Angel Studios (Transworld Surf) Appeal (Outcast) DarkWorks (Alone in the Dark) Deep Red (Monopoly Tycoon) Eden Studios (V-Rally) Epic Games (Unreal Tournament) Firaxis (Civilization I, II, III) Humongous Entertainment (Backyard Sports, Freddi Fish, Putt Putt, Pajama Sam, Spy Fox) Legend Entertainment (Unreal, Unreal 2) Oddworld Inhabitants (Munch's Oddysey) Paradigm Entertainment (Looney Tunes' Duck Dodgers) Particle Systems (Independence War) Pitbull Syndicate (Test Drive, Demolition Racer) Reflections (Driver) Rainbow Studios (Splashdown)
Benefits
The opportunity to guide the next generation of entertainment and create the next pop culture phenomenon