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| What do you consider Atari? |
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| sin2beta:
This is a question I was thinking of recently. Atari filed bankruptcy months ago. Well, more precisely, the company that now owned a portion of the Atari name filed bankruptcy. The name has been bought and sold several times. I was wondering, when do you guys think that Atari was no longer Atari. Warner had Atari during the 2600 days. They developed up to the 7800, but sold the company in 1984 to Jack Tramiel. He then released the already developed 7800 and then developed the Lynx and Jaguar. Then the name was sold to other companies. Basically, do you consider the Lynx and the Jaguar as being real Atari systems. Or do you think Atari stopped with the 7800 or possibly before. Before, I always considered the Lynx and Jaguar to be Atari, even though they did seem out of place. But as I learn more about Atari. The more I don't consider them part of Atari proper. And the more comfortable I am with those systems place in history. |
| htimreimer:
atari died with the crash and everyone else are imposters, the atari the we know of today has been around since 1983 and was originally called infogrames and to call atari a mess would be an understatement, think of this one, mitsubishi has partial ownership of some classic atari games ,atari is a company that no government wants to deal with and that why they have not died, the death of atari would take years and years and years to deal with because there that much of a legal,financial & copyright mess, i pray for the death of atari but its not happening anytime soon because the french and us government does not want to deal with it |
| psydswipe:
While you could argue it's all the same Atari, I'd say I stopped viewing them as the original Atari when Hasbro Interactive got the brand. I know Infogrames got Atari when they got Hasbro, and eventually changed their name to Atari but I still consider them Infogrames. |
| pceslayer:
Atari died with the 7800.. |
| soera:
Atari died in October of 1985 when the NES was released stateside. Anything after was a small grasp to try to regain the top of the video game market they had with the 2600 and pretty much bombed every time. |
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