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Kee was formed by Joe Keenan, a friend and neighbor of Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, in September 1973.In reality, Bushnell had worked with Keenan to create Kee Games in response to the pinball and arcade distributors of the time who demanded exclusivity deals; Bushnell believed that Kee Games could offer similar but renamed arcade games, or "clones", to distributors, which would greatly ...
In 1973, Atari secretly spawned a competitor called Kee Games, headed by Nolan's next-door neighbor Joe Keenan, to circumvent pinball distributors' insistence on exclusive distribution deals; both Atari and Kee could market nearly the same game to different distributors, each getting an "exclusive" deal. Joe Keenan's management of the ...
While early Kee games were near-copies of Atari's own games, Kee began developing their own titles such as that drew distributor interest to Kee and effectively helping Bushnell to realize the disruption of the exclusive distribution deals. [26] In 1974, Atari began to see financial struggles and Bushnell was forced to lay off half the staff. [24]
Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and video game console and home computer development company which operated between 1972 and 1984. During its years of operation, it developed and produced over 350 arcade, console, and computer games for its own systems, and almost 100 ports of games for home computers such as the Commodore 64.
Tank is an arcade game developed by Kee Games, a subsidiary of Atari, and released in November 1974.It was one of the few original titles not based on an existing Atari property developed by Kee Games, which was founded to sell clones of Atari games to distributors as a fake competitor prior to the merger of the two companies.
Atari 50 features an interactive timeline (pictured) which presents text, images, video footage and playable games to form a narrative of the history of Atari. The game's editorial director, Chris Kohler, joined Digital Eclipse in July 2020 following the departure of Frank Cifaldi.
April – Indy 800 by Atari (published under the Kee Games label) begins production. [17] The game features color graphics and an eight player cabinet powered by eight circuit boards . Despite its massive profile and price restricting the range of venues, the game is highly successful and proves the earning power of large, multiplayer games.
Pursuit is a single-player arcade video game by Kee Games, originally released in 1975. The player plays a World War I flying ace who tries to shoot down enemy planes. Gameplay is from a first person perspective. Pursuit marks the first time Atari Inc. publicly acknowledged its relationship with Kee. [1]