Essays on Sega

Atari Rapid Growth

Atari’s rapid growth is attributed to the decision of its founder to transform the traditional gaming machines into a smaller home machine. Bushnell compressed the coin-operated Pong game into a smaller home system. The Atari 2600 was the most successful home based gaming system that used cartridge.

How Did Ninitendo Successfully Recreate the Home Video Game Business Following the Atari - Era Boom and Bust?

After the boom and bust of the Atari, Nintendo focused on a diversification strategy. Initially, the company focused on the production of playing cards before the diversification to the production of the video game business. As such, the organization acquired a licensing to produce video games from Magnafox, which led to ...

1. In class (and in the text) we discussed the use of incentives, such as tax credits, to help develop the video game industry in Ontario, BC, and in Quebec. Discuss how these types of programs are structured to encourage investment in the industry and discuss why/why not you think these programs are a good idea. Can you relate the video game industry incentives to the film tax credits that used to exist in New Brunswick/Nova Scotia? What other industries rely on incentives? The video and TV generation industry in Canada keeps on growing. In 2015, its yearly volume ...

- According to “The Video Game Industry. An Industry Analysis from a VC Perspective” (2005) by Nik Shah, “video games are large and growing market”. (1) The author claimed that there are only selected areas, which contain some investment opportunities. He exemplifies these statement by analyzing prospects of such areas as online games and platforms, mobile gaming, developing new software toolkits etc. Nonetheless, successful market entrance depends not only on identifying key performance areas, but combining different strategies to reach profitability. Here we would like to identify keys of success of Atari, Nintendo Strategy, 3Do approach and approach developed by ...