Atari’s biggest year was 1982, when it earned $320 million on $2 billion in sales. But it ended on a very sour note. On December 8, 1982, its parent company, Warner Bros, announced it expected a dramatic slump in fourth quarter per-share earnings largely because of disappointing sales of Atari’s video game cartridges. The news of Atari’s earning miss sent Warner’s stock price reeling, losing $16.75 per share the day after the announcement.

David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.










