Why so many early video-game companies had names starting with A

A lot of the big companies of the 80s video-game boom all had names beginning with A — like Atari, Activision, Accolade, and Acclaim. Why?

Over at Debugger on Medium, Garry Kitchen — a designer who joined Activision in 1982 — explains one hypothesis: All the companies were trying to get on the first page of the huge, paper company-directory of CES. — Read the rest