What does Atari mean?

Re:What does Atari mean? by ajmurmann on Sunday February 19, 2017 @02:51PM (#13681596)

Mh, I had always assumed it was inspired by the term from the Go board game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Go_terms#Atari

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Re:What does Atari mean? by VonGuard on Sunday February 19, 2017 @02:52PM (#13681602)

It absolutely was. Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, went on to found another company called Sente [ http://senseis.xmp.net/?Sente ].

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Re:What does Atari mean? by zero_iq on Sunday February 19, 2017 @03:23PM (#13681778)

This was my impression too. Pretty sure I read it in an Atari magazine back in the 80s (Most likely "ST Format").

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