Yes those numbers are actually real as unbelievable as it may sound .
The original Atari is long gone, Atari SA is a holdings company that renamed itself after acquiring the Atari brand from Hasbro. There has not been a contiguous Atari company making games or systems.
ah that makes sense. I fucking hate all the corporate metamorphosis shit that I can never follow.
Companies get bought and sold all the time, in the case of Atari there is actually some continuity between the different versions of the company over the decades ;
I think the reason why modern Zoomer gamers have very little knowledge about Atari is because the company was very badly mismanaged during the 2010s ( there was even a bankruptcy in 2013 which they have since rebounded from ). I doubt most people born after the year 2000 ever played a game that had an Atari logo slapped on it.
Yeah I guess I meant that particular kind of thing was why I didn't bother keeping up with the details of who owned what. Especially in the games industry. The whole first/third party development corporate publishing bullshit structure is part of why the AAA games industry sucks so much ass.
If you're asking who is the Thunderful Group they're the guys that develop and publish the Steam World games , Planet of Lana , Viewfinder etc it's an indie game developer/publisher that at one point was very successful ( maybe under new leadership they will be successful again, only time will tell ).
Oh, those Steam World games are pretty good. Seems like a high price just to acquire them though.
I believe its when they first went bankrupt and were bought out. I think the guy that bought it even has Giant gold statues or awards filled with jewels that were supposed to go to winners of an Atari contest.
To be fair, Atari was badly mismanaged for much of its life.
Atari brought back a (modernized) 2600 that takes the old cartridges and shit, they are still doing stuff, just at their own pace.
That isn't true at all. The 7800 actually had fairly interesting specs but...
I stand corrected. The 7800 was still too little too late, especially in the face of Nintendo and Sega's 8-bit offerings which felt like an entire generation ahead of the 7800. I wonder how much of impact of VCS/2600 backward compatibility had on the 7800's image?
The Lynx was very cool.
Because it wasn't the same company. In 1984, Warner Communications sold the bulk of Atari to a company called Tramel Technology, owned by Jack Tramiel, which renamed as Atari Corporation after the acquisition. What was left became Atari Games, the arcade division (but only new arcade games, not legacy IPs). Atari Games lasted until 2003 when it was shut down under parent company Midway. If you want to get super-autistic Atari Games was made a subsidiary of "AT Games" (a joint venture between Warner Communications and Namco), with "AT Games" becoming the "new" Atari Games and the "original" Atari Games/Atari becoming Atari Holdings and then getting merged back into the "new" Atari Games in 1994.
