{"id":15144,"date":"2019-10-14T23:16:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T23:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/atari-launches-home-video-gaming-8\/"},"modified":"2019-10-14T23:16:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T23:16:29","slug":"atari-launches-home-video-gaming-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/atari-launches-home-video-gaming-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Atari Launches Home Video Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sys_AtariVCS.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2304]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2307\" title=\"Original Atari VCS &quot;Heavy Sixer&quot;\" alt=\"Original Atari VCS &quot;Heavy Sixer&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/63886__sys_AtariVCS-300x154.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sys_AtariVCS-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sys_AtariVCS.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>October 14, 1977<\/p>\n<p>Atari releases their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atari_2600\" target=\"_blank\">Video Computer System<\/a>\u00a0(known as the VCS and later as the Atari 2600). It took two years for the VCS to gain traction, but by 1979 it was the best selling gift of the Christmas season. Once it was established, the Atari VCS took the market by storm, popularized home video gaming, and helped cement the video game movement into mainstream culture.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/10\/14\/atari-launches-home-video-gaming\/\">Atari Launches Home Video Gaming<\/a> is original content of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/63886__12895768.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tracking.feedpress.it\/link\/1823\/12895768\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 14, 1977 Atari releases their\u00a0Video Computer System\u00a0(known as the VCS and later as the Atari 2600). It took two years for the VCS to gain traction, but by 1979 it was the best selling gift of the Christmas season. Once it was established, the Atari VCS took the market by storm, popularized home video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[2390,1420,291,230,461],"class_list":["post-15144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-atari","tag-gaming","tag-home","tag-launches","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}