{"id":13863,"date":"2018-02-27T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/315056"},"modified":"2018-02-27T21:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T21:57:00","slug":"obituary-former-president-and-ceo-of-atari-ray-kassar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/27\/obituary-former-president-and-ceo-of-atari-ray-kassar\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Former President and CEO of Atari Ray Kassar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gamasutra has learned that Ray\u00a0Kassar, President and CEO of Atari Inc. from 1978 to 1983, passed away in Vero Beach, Florida on December 10, 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The news comes courtesy of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/sfgate\/obituary.aspx?pid=187558023\">obituary posted to\u00a0Legacy.com<\/a>,\u00a0originally syndicated\u00a0via the San Francisco Chronicle&#8217;s website on December 18th, 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the condolences, Kassar\u00a0became President and CEO of Atari in 1978, following the company&#8217;s acquisition\u00a0by Warner Communications in 1976. His leadership\u00a0was timed with an explosive growth in Atari&#8217;s business, although many developers and senior management left the company at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Kassar was also the (reverse-spelled) namesake of <em>Yars Revenge<\/em>, Howard Scott Warshaw&#8217;s 1981 game for Atari 2600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamasutra has learned that Ray\u00a0Kassar, President and CEO of Atari Inc. from 1978 to 1983, passed away in Vero Beach, Florida on December 10, 2017.\u00a0 The news comes courtesy of an obituary posted to\u00a0Legacy.com,\u00a0originally syndicated\u00a0via the San Francisco Chronicle&#8217;s website on December 18th, 2017.\u00a0 According to the condolences, Kassar\u00a0became President and CEO of Atari in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}