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Atari established the home video game industry, and its name immediately became synonymous with 8-bit adventure. The Atari 2600 system was the first piece of gaming equipment to dominate the world s collective living room, offering the most iconic titles of all time, like Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Defender, Joust, Pitfall and many, many more. But the gaming giant fell just as swiftly, due to a full-scale video game crash in 1983. Even after this catastrophe, Atari soldiered on, and just one year later, produced the powerful 7800 console — a machine that should have returned Atari to its former glory, had everything gone according to plan…