{"id":915,"date":"2012-11-29T16:55:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T21:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=915"},"modified":"2012-11-29T17:06:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T22:06:40","slug":"epic-atari-history-book-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/915\/epic-atari-history-book-released","title":{"rendered":"Epic Atari History Book Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Atari-Inc-Mr-Curt-Vendel\/dp\/0985597402\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='\/wp-content\/atari_book_small.jpg' alt='Atari History Book' class=\"retroscan\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just a few days ago, renowned video game historians Marty Goldberg (formerly of ClassicGaming.com) and Curt Vendel (Atari collector extraordinaire) published their epic Atari history book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Atari-Inc-Mr-Curt-Vendel\/dp\/0985597402\/\" target=\"_blank\">Atari Inc.: Business is Fun<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And by epic, I mean 800-pages epic.  Its launch coincides with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/846\" target=\"_blank\">40th anniversary of the legendary video game company<\/a>, which happens to be this year.  (In fact, the 40th anniversary of Pong&#8217;s public debut happens to be today.)<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t gotten my hands on a copy of this massive work yet, but I thought I&#8217;d let you guys know about it because it promises to be an interesting read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few days ago, renowned video game historians Marty Goldberg (formerly of ClassicGaming.com) and Curt Vendel (Atari collector extraordinaire) published their epic Atari history book, Atari Inc.: Business is Fun. And by epic, I mean 800-pages epic. Its launch coincides with the 40th anniversary of the legendary video game company, which happens to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21,9],"tags":[84,83,170,271,268,269,270],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","category-retrogaming","tag-84","tag-anniversaries","tag-atari","tag-books","tag-curt-vendel","tag-marty-goldberg","tag-pong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}