Before the time when Nintendo dominated the console space in the 80s, and long before the console wars of the 90s took over the world, video games had a different industry leader. Atari was the company that captured the attention and minds of young people who played games at home or in the arcades, and it was a force to be reckoned with. The Atari 2600 is one of the most important video game consoles of all-time, and is still beloved to this day by people who did and didn’t grow up during its heyday. The console itself was released at a point when video games as a medium were young and still evolving, with t**les that were at the starting point of creativity with limited technology that pushed people’s imaginations. You couldn’t go anywhere in the late 70s or early 80s and not see a fan of Atari’s home video game system.