Infogrames Entertainment SA (IESA) (Euronext: ATA) is an international French holding company headquartered in Villeurbanne, Lyon, France. It is the owner of Atari, Inc., headquartered in New York City, and Atari Europe. It was founded in 1983 by Bruno Bonnell and Christophe Sapet using the proceeds from an introductory computer book. Through its subsidiaries, Infogrames produces, publishes and distributes interactive games for all major video ga...
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Infogrames Entertainment SA (IESA) (Euronext: ATA) is an international French holding company headquartered in Villeurbanne, Lyon, France. It is the owner of Atari, Inc., headquartered in New York City, and Atari Europe. It was founded in 1983 by Bruno Bonnell and Christophe Sapet using the proceeds from an introductory computer book. Through its subsidiaries, Infogrames produces, publishes and distributes interactive games for all major video game consoles and computer game platforms.
The founders wanted to christen the company Zboub Système, but were dissuaded by their legal counsel. According to Bonnell in a TV interview, they then used a mix-and-match computer program to suggest other names, one of which was "Infogramme": a portmanteau of the French words "informatique" (information technology) and "programme" (a computer program). The final choice, "Infogrames", was a slightly modified version of that suggestion, and is pronounced /ˌɪnfoʊˈɡræmz/ in English.
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