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Most The Atari 2600, which never featured any kind of copy protection, was mobbed as publishers as diverse as Parker Brothers to CBS began making and publishing video games. The flood of the best third-party games for the system were original creations by Activision and Imagiclack of quality control from other companies left many customers dissatisfied, both of which were comprised (at least eventually became another factor in part) of former Atari employees who grew disenchanted with the company’s policies regarding royalties and programmer credits1983 Video Game Crash.
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==Games==
Former Atari employees founded the earliest example of the third-party game publisher. Alan Miller, designer of early launch titles like ''Surround'' and ''Basketball'', left with fellow designers Bob Whitehead, Larry Kaplan, and David Crane to form Activision in 1979 with the help of music lawyer Jim Levy. Atari unsuccessfully pursued legal action for a while to keep Activision from publishing games on ther platform. Another publisher, Imagic, was founded by Atari and Mattel Electronics alumni the following year.
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