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If the current Atari owns the intellectual property of the original Atari, is that all that different than the current EA being able to trace itself to the orig
by Mountain_Skies 4y ago
If the current Atari owns the intellectual property of the original Atari, is that all that different than the current EA being able to trace itself to the original Electronic Arts that made Archon, M.U.L.E., and Pinball Construction Kit? How many of those responsible for creating those early games are still with EA?
- danuker 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
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- Cpoll 4y agoI was thinking that too, but there's possibly a distinction between repairing a ship and buying a new ship and naming it after the old one.
- ofrzeta 4y agoI don't know. I just wanted to raise that point because it bothered me. What could be a required property for a successor company to be "legitimate"? Some kind of merit that's in the spirit and the culture of the original company? Maybe the revival of unreleased arcade games could be it. Then again there should be more than this single event. Or maybe the even need some hardware of their own.
- ido 4y agoA nitpick, but I feel it's worth noting EA didn't "make" any of these, but published them. These were all developed by 3rd party developers