1 янв 1979 г. - 1979 : Activision Founded
- Founded by David Crane and Alan Miller, both programmers who left Atari
- Atari did not give credits for game designers
- First developer and distributors of video games for home consoles
- Third party companies began to make games for Atari 2600
- Most known for side scrolling platform games of the era
- legitimised third-party development in video game industry