Atari was a video game and home computer company founded in 1972. It was a major producer of the Space Race, a popular arcade game released in 1981. The game was a two-player competitive space race, where players had to navigate their spacecrafts through an asteroid field while avoiding obstacles and collecting power-ups. Atari was also responsible for the development of other classic games such as Pong, Asteroids, and Missile Command.