Losses and layoffs at Atari
Toy store owners and other retailers queue up at the Consumer Electronics Show every June to place orders for the Christmas selling season. When participants gather this week in Chicago for the annual bazaar, however, the hot topic of conversation will not be whether Zaxxon or Keystone Kapers will unseat Centipede as the industry's bestselling videogame. It will be: What's going on at Atari?
The company that pioneered video-games and a year ago still had 80% of that exploding market is getting zapped. Last month another 225 workers were...
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