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Forty years. That's a long time in the tech industry and Atari knows it. Today it celebrates four decades in the game, and quite the tale it is. Highs, lows and everything in between, Atari has been there. As one of the most influential brands both in gaming and technology, it only seems right to take a look over the company's history and chart some of the more significant twists in its less than straightforward journey. After the break we speak to the man that started it all and the one currently at the helm, as well as some of the many people whose lives were irreversibly changed by its influence. Happy birthday to you, Atari!

It’s every little potential Sith Lord’s (or lady’s) dream to have their own Death Star to call home. And, if they are very lucky, sometimes they can make their dreams a reality.

Mike Dillon from Dillon Works and Eric Ward from Definitive Audio count themselves as some of the few to have ever constructed such a project.
Back in 2001, they were commissioned to build a Death Star home theater, featuring the hundreds of Star Wars memorabilia pieces the client had collected over the years — and this month, it became a sensation online, when aslideshow went viral on sites like Buzzfeed.

The plans had been drawn up by Doug Chiang, the design director for Lucasfilm on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones. All the teams had to do was make it reality. Dillon Works was in charge of the design and installation of the piece. Owner Dillon said his crew watched the films over and over again for inspiration, but it helped that some of the crew were Star Wars fanatics themselves. Plus, the client had specific instructions for their dream theater.