This series contains documentation created and maintained during a game’s development. Game documentation may include game proposals, game descriptions, game designs, cost estimates, notes, project status reports, production schedules, internal memos, correspondence, focus group results, and field test collection reports. (Some games are more heavily documented than others, and not all Atari games are represented in these folders.) Of note are the extensive game development documentation on Asteroids, Atari’s best-selling game, and Star Wars. This series also includes a hand-drawn Star Wars storyboard that displays Atari’s initial vision for the iconic arcade game.

Folders are arranged alphabetically by game, and types of documentation are delineated in the folder title. Folders that have EIRE in parenthesis after the game title were projects developed and manufactured at Atari’s Tipperary Town, Ireland plant.