A Ridiculous Love Letter to Atari, Part Two: a Rise, a Fall, and a Legacy
Ridiculous History
iHeartPodcasts
4.2 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Oof! Atari! As our producer Max likes to say, 'it was a thing.' In the second part of this two-part series, Ben, Noel and Max explore the pioneering rise of Atari, corporate overtake, and the final words of its founder.
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| 0:00.0 | Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show, fellow ridiculous historians. |
| 0:29.4 | Thank you, as always so much for tuning in. |
| 0:32.1 | That's our super producer, Mr. Max, Magnavox, Williams. |
| 0:36.7 | Max Atari Teenage Riot Williams. |
| 0:39.9 | Remember them? |
| 0:40.8 | Oh, man. |
| 0:41.1 | Those guys are real. |
| 0:42.2 | That's Noel Brown. |
| 0:44.1 | I'm Ben Bullen. |
| 0:45.3 | This is part two of the ridiculous history of Atari. |
| 0:48.8 | So if you haven't heard part one yet, please get the to thy podcast platform of choice and check it out because part two will make |
| 0:56.7 | a lot more sense when you've heard part one. |
| 0:59.2 | It's true, but it's a pretty good division. |
| 1:00.9 | I mean, we definitely recommend checking out episode one. |
| 1:03.7 | You probably already have, but we're going to start from kind of the fall from grace |
| 1:08.4 | type period of Atari. |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah, more money, more problems. Indeed. As biggie would say, this is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. We're here in what we call |
| 1:27.4 | the post-pong era. |
| 1:30.1 | Yeah, I guess we're still in the post-pong era. |
| 1:32.3 | I think we are, man. |
| 1:33.6 | I think we are. |
| 1:34.2 | Like post-modernism, one weird term. |
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