And the Hello and welcome to the corporate casket a bi-weekly series where bad businesses go to die.

We discuss anything and everything from bad charities, terrible CEOs, and businesses

that have a lot to hide.

I'm the Illuminati, and today we are following up on

another gigantic video game publisher, Activision. I know there's a lot to get into

when discussing this company so let's just cut to the chase video game companies in the world behind Tencent and Nintendo.

Their revenue can reach around $1.7 billion per quarter

and at least several billion per year.

It looks like they took a bit of a hit in 2019,

6.5 billion as opposed to 7.5 billion in 2018 but I mean

that's still billions of dollars they're doing just fine however Activision

wasn't always this huge, obviously.

Our story of how the company was founded starts with David Crane in 1977,

when he joined Atari at that time.

The company was maturing from a feisty Silicon Valley startup to a mass market entertainment company.

Nolan Bushnell had recently sold to Warner, but he was still around offering creative guidance.

Most of the drug culture was a thing offering creative guidance.

Most of the drug culture was a thing of the past

and the days of hot tubbing in the office were over,

Crane recalled.

The sale to Warner Communications had given Atari

the much-needed financial stability required to push into the

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