Development of the Amiga began in 1982 with Jay Miner, developer of the Atari 800 chip set, as the principal hardware designer of Amiga Corporation.

The Atari 5200 SuperSystem, commonly known as the Atari 5200, is a video game console that was introduced in 1982 by Atari Inc. as a higher end complementary console for the popular Atari 2600.

In addition to the ECS module, 1982 also saw the introduction of a redesigned model, called the Intellivision II ( featuring detachable controllers and sleeker case ), the System Changer ( which played Atari 2600 games on the Intellivision II ), and a music keyboard add-on for the ECS.

Shortly after The Texas Chain Saw Massacre established itself as a success on home video in 1982, Wizard Video released a mass-market video game adaptation for the Atari 2600.

* Bomb Buenas Aires ( VIC-20, 1982 ; Atari ST, 1988 ) ( A. K. A.

* Gridrunner ( Atari 2600 / VIC-20 / ZX Spectrum, 1982 ; C64, 1983 )

* Matrix: Gridrunner 2 ( VIC-20, 1982 ; Atari 2600 / C64, 1983 ; C16, 1986 )

In 1982, Atari attempted to take advantage of the craze following the arcade game Pac-Man by releasing a version for the Atari 2600.

Millipede is a 1982 arcade game by Atari, Inc. and is the sequel to the arcade hit, Centipede.

) is a notorious 1982 adventure video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 2600 video game console.

Atari anticipated enormous sales based on the popularity of the film, as well as the stability the video game industry was experiencing in 1982.

On November 1, 1982, Atari informed them that their contracts were canceled and that exclusive deals would be established with select distributors.

By the end of 1982, Atari had begun to lose dominance as more competitors entered the market.

* Journey Escape, a 1982 Atari 2600 video game featured the band Journey

Tax Avoiders is a single-player video game for the Atari 2600 released in 1982.

The company produced and published adventure-games for the ZXSpectrum ( along with the Atari ) range of home computer from 1982 to 1997.

* In 1982 Activision produced a Barnstorming game cartridge for the Atari 2600

* Pac-Man ( Atari 2600 ), a famous 1982 port of the arcade game for the Atari 2600

Some common elements of survival horror games can be found in the 1982 Atari 2600 game Haunted House.

* 1982 – The first Compact Discs ( CDs ) are released to the public in Germany.

The software is developed and sold by Autodesk, Inc., first released in December 1982 by Autodesk in the year following the purchase of the first form of the software by Autodesk founder, John Walker.

The first album to be released on CD was Billy Joel's 52nd Street, that reached the market alongside Sony's CD player CDP-101 on October 1, 1982 in Japan.

From this trip, Marker first published the photo-essay Le Dépays in 1982, as well as using the experience for his next film Sans Soleil, released in 1982.

The ColecoVision is Coleco Industries ' second generation home video game console which was released in August 1982.

** Commodore 64 ( or C64 or C = 64 ), an 8-bit home computer released by Commodore International in August 1982, the single best-selling personal computer model of all-time

In 1982, they released their second studio album, Plastic Surgery Disasters.

A 1993 compilation called Lucky Thirteen was released, but it only covered Young's 1982 – 1988 output.

In March 1982, the month before Paul Schrader's film Cat People came out, Bowie's title song, " Cat People ( Putting Out Fire )", was released as a single, becoming a minor US hit and entering the UK top 30.

An Ethernet adapter card for the IBM PC was released in 1982 and by 1985, 3Com had sold 100, 000.

Although Coppola was not credited for his effort, according to one source, " by the time the final version was released in 1982, only 30 percent of Wenders ' footage remained, and the rest was completely reshot by Coppola, whose mere ' executive producer ' credit is just a technicality.

Charlie Ahearn's independently released fiction film Wild Style ( Wild Style, 1983 ), the early PBS documentary Style Wars ( 1983 ), hit songs such as " The Message " and " Planet Rock " and their accompanying music videos ( both 1982 ) contributed to a growing interest outside New York in all aspects of hip hop.

The closest successor to the Torana was the Camira, released in 1982 as Australia's version of GM's medium-sized " J-car ".

When released in 1982, the Camira initially generated good sales, which later declined because buyers considered the 1. 6-litre engine underpowered, and the car's build and ride quality below-average.

Previously unreleased studio and live material were added to these albums tracklistings and also released on the compilation Farewell Song in 1982.

The film was released in 1982, along with his television adaptation of the acclaimed play The Rainmaker.

Pop vocalist Dan Fogelberg composed the song " Run for the Roses " which was released in time for the 1982 running of the race.

Carducci suggested they sign with the label, and the Meat Puppets released their first album Meat Puppets in 1982, which among several new originals and a pair of heavily skewed Doc Watson and Bob Nolan covers, featured the songs " The Gold Mine " and " Melons Rising ", two tunes Derrick and Cris originally had written and performed as Atomic Bomb Club previously.

The third movie, Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space, was released in 1982.

* 1982 – Michael Jackson's Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, is released.

After viewing the first 20 minutes of landmark cyberpunk film Blade Runner ( 1982 ), which was released when Gibson had written a third of the novel, he " figured was sunk, done for.

* 1982 – Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.

The Odyssey² was released in Japan in December 1982 by Kōton Trading Toitarii Enterprise ( コートン ・ トレーディング ・ トイタリー ・ エンタープライズ, a division of DINGU company ) under the name オデッセイ２ ( odessei2 ).

In 1982, a comic book adaptation of the film called A Marvel Comics Super Special: Blade Runner was released by Marvel Comics.