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I'm surprised Google made this game under the name "atari breakout." Atari is very protective of their trademarks.

• dspillett 13y ago
  Aye, they had the excellent little distraction PlasmaPong (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_Pong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_Pong) shut down as they own the rights to Pong, a property they were doing sod all with at the time, thereby adding themselves to the list of companies that I'll think twice and thrice before given any money to. I'm guessing they are unlikely to try bully Google though as they aren't significantly smaller than them.
  • mikegagnon 13y ago
    Plasma Pong was actually what I was thinking of when I wrote my comment. :-) The author of Plasma Pong (Steve Taylor) was my roommate when Atari shut down his game. As far as litigation is concerned, I would expect that bigger companies would tend to get sued over trademark issues. After all, isn't that where the money is at?