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Atari Declares Bankruptcy
- orangethirty 14y agoI wished they would re-issue the 2600 console and games.
- Tichy 14y agoI think there was an Atari "Joystick" available a couple of years ago that included an emulator with lots of 2600 games.
- csixty4 14y agoThere's been a couple generations of the Atari Flashback console. From the second generation onward, they were replicas of the actual hardware. You could solder in a cartridge port and play your original games.
- orangethirty 14y agoI did not know that. Thanks! (Heading to ebay to score one).
- chii 14y agowow, didnt know they were in trouble - they had http://atari.com/arcade http://atari.com/arcade (which i thought was cool).
- speeder 14y agoThey are not. Atari US ( real Atari ) is doing a legal maneuver to get rid of the parent company Atari France ( that in reality is just infogrames thinking using Atari name will help them somehow )
- philbarr 14y agoThis would seem to be a pretty important point missed completely by the article. Do you know a better article we could read?
- pmelendez 14y agoThis article is a bit better. http://www.dailytech.com/Atari+Files+for+Bankruptcy+Looks+to+Escape+French+Parent+Company/article29705.htm http://www.dailytech.com/Atari+Files+for+Bankruptcy+Looks+to... Having worked for a company which publisher was Atari and having Atari cancelled all other games in development with the excuse of going just mobile... I can't say I am surprised :)
- jgeralnik 14y agoThis reddit comment also explains: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/16zlo7/atari_files_for_chapter_11_bankruptcy/c80wn6d http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/16zlo7/atari_fil...
- Tloewald 14y agoWhile Marketplace missed this they do seem to be in pretty serious trouble.
- newobj 14y agoWho cares? This thing called Atari is really just Infogrames with a borrowed name. And Infogrames is really just GT Interactive. So it's more like "company currently in possession of borrowed and reborrowed name declares bankruptcy."
- orionblastar 14y agoThis is the best of Atari: http://www.atariage.com/ http://www.atariage.com/ http://www.atari.org/ http://www.atari.org/ Atari Force go! http://www.atariage.com/comics/index.html http://www.atariage.com/comics/index.html I still have a working Atari 2600 system and some carts. Too bad the Atari company is but a name for Infogrames and is nothing like the original Atari.
- erickhill 14y agoAs it was pointed out to me a day ago, here are a few more versions of the story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5090807 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5090807 (venturebeat.com) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092088 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092088 (telegraph.co.uk) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092123 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092123 (bloomberg.com) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092327 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092327 (guardian.co.uk) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092447 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092447 (latimes.com) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092764 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092764 (lohud.com) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092889 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092889 (bbc.co.uk) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5093489 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5093489 (cnn.com) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5094529 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5094529 (wsj.com)
- sehugg 14y agoThis covers the convoluted history pretty well: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/01/todays-atari-bankruptcy-latest-in-a-long-history-of-corporate-deaths/ http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/01/todays-atari-bankruptc...
- drcube 14y ago> "People, once upon a time, would use 'Atari' in place of the term video games," I'm a little young for Atari, but a decade or so later, when I was a kid, we would use "Nintendo" or "Mario" as synonyms for "video games". "Hey want to play Mario?" "Sure, what game?" "Double Dragon/Zelda/Excite Bike/etc" Was a common conversation among my friends circa 1988 or so.