The original Atari logo is as close to a religious symbol for old-school gamers as you can get. Atari may have lost its soul since it changed ownership (Ed: on countless occasions), but the vision of its original founders (Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney) and game creation engineering geniuses, will always be (fondly) remembered.
For the history conscious, on this day [November 25] in 1975, Atari registered its now ubiquitous logo. The logo design started as a doodle by George Faraco and later refined by Atari’s in-house graphic designer, George Opperman. George created lots of art for Atari’s coin-ops, but his most famous work will forever be that beautiful ‘Mt. Fuji’ logo. Just to set the record straight, the design of the logo had nothing to do with Mt. Fuji – the logo was to have a stylised letter A, the first letter of the company name, and the three prongs were a salute to its first gaming hit, Pong. All hail, the Atari logo!
