*Atari Games (formerly the arcade division of Atari, Inc.) owned Tengen, which did games for the NES. Commodore founder Jack Tramiel's Atari Corporation (formerly the home division of Atari, Inc.) released the 7800, Jaguar, and Lynx. They were two different companies at that point.
*Atari, Inc. was originally going to release the 7800 in 1984 (in fact, it was test marketed then), but it was canned after Tramiel bought the home division from Warner and decided to focus on computers. Tramiel only released the 7800 because home video games were becoming popular again.
Play Value - Atari vs. Nintendo
*Atari Games (formerly the arcade division of Atari, Inc.) owned Tengen, which did games for the NES. Commodore founder Jack Tramiel's Atari Corporation (formerly the home division of Atari, Inc.) released the 7800, Jaguar, and Lynx. They were two different companies at that point.
*Atari, Inc. was originally going to release the 7800 in 1984 (in fact, it was test marketed then), but it was canned after Tramiel bought the home division from Warner and decided to focus on computers. Tramiel only released the 7800 because home video games were becoming popular again.