List of Atari, Inc. games
In 1975 Atari released Home Pong, its first of several "Pong"-based dedicated video game consoles, and in 1977 released its first home video game console, the Atari Video Computer System (later renamed the Atari 2600). From that point onward Atari developed both arcade games and console games, and in 1979 added games for their first home computers, the Atari 400 and 800. Atari produced a second home video game console in 1982, the Atari 5200, and four more home computer versions. Beginning in Summer 1981, Atari published the Atari Program Exchange, a quarterly mail-order catalog of software written for Atari computers by external developers which Atari then distributed to customers. In May 1983, Atari started the Atarisoft division, which produced ports of games by Atari and others for non-Atari home computers. In July 1984, as a result of falling sales due to the video game crash of 1983, Atari, Inc. was split apart by Warner Communications; the arcade division continued as a subsidiary of Warner under the name Atari Games, while the console and computer games divisions were sold off as Atari Corporation.
Gran Trak 10
Atari reported a loss of $500,000 for the 1974 fiscal year, roughly as much as the previous year's profits, with "Gran Trak" as one of the major causes. This led Atari into deep financial problems, leaving part of "Gran Trak"s legacy being "the game that nearly put Atari out of business". In September 1974, Atari announced plans to merge with its subsidiary Kee Games; Kee's final game "Tank", released in November 1974, was a commercial success, however, and is credited with buoying the finances of the newly merged Atari at a critical time for the company. The "Gran Trak 10" game itself, after its problems were resolved, was considered a success, and Atari released multiple versions of it: a clone version titled "Formula K" was released through Kee Games for different distributors around July 1974, and Atari produced a small cabinet version in late in the year titled "Trak 10". According to Ralph H. Baer, "Formula K" sold "6,000" units. A two-player version titled "Gran Trak 20" was released in August, along with its own clone version from Kee Games titled "Twin Racer" and its own small cabinet version, "Trak 20". Baer estimates that "Gran Trak 20" sold 4,500 units. Atari produced numerous other racing arcade games in the same style as "Gran Trak", including "Le Mans" (1976), "Sprint 2" (1976), "Super Sprint" (1986), and "Badlands" (1989). "Gran Trak 10" was the first arcade car racing video game and the first game to use a steering wheel, and is known as the "grandfather of car-based racing games", though a simple racing game, "Wipeout", had been released in 1972 for the Magnavox Odyssey home video game console and a spaceship drag racing arcade game, "Space Race", had been released by Atari in 1973.