Atari
Atari put the arcade in the living room. It started in 1972 with a Pong cabinet in a Sunnyvale bar that jammed because the coin box was too full, and five years later the 2600 settled what a console is: the hardware stays, the cartridges change. Asteroids, Centipede, Missile Command, Tempest, Adventure, Lunar Lander and the rest are all here. Whether you fed these machines quarters or found them forty years later, start below.
All Atari
Adventure
Asteroids
Atari Football
Breakout
Centipede
Crystal Castles
Gravitar
Lunar Lander
Major Havoc
Missile Command
Pong
Star Raiders
Swordquest
Tempest
Yars' Revenge
Atari took its name from the board game Go, where atari announces that a stone is about to be captured, and the stylised A in the logo is usually read as Mount Fuji. Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded the company in 1972; Warner Communications bought it in 1976, and the value of that purchase collapsed within a decade, taking much of the American games industry with it.
The games in this collection carry their own history. Centipede was designed by Dona Bailey, one of very few women working in arcade development at the time. Missile Command's designer has spoken for decades about the nightmares it gave him. And Adventure hides the first Easter egg in video game history: Warren Robinett received no credit for the games he wrote, so he buried a secret room containing his own name, reachable only by carrying an invisible one pixel dot to the right wall. Atari discovered it after he had already left.
Every design is officially licensed and printed on soft ring spun cotton in unisex sizes up to 5XL, depending on the shirt colour, with youth, hoodie and long sleeve options across much of the range.
