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… "For more than five decades, Atari has created games and worlds that have remained part of popular culture long after their original release," Atari chairman and CEO Wade Rosen told the site. …
… But it looks like that's about to change: Atari has announced it's acquired "the complete and exclusive rights" to the first five Wizardry games and their "underlying IP". That's pretty big news for CRPG enthusiasts, especially since Atari seems pretty eager to get them back on the market. …
… And yet the sticks attached to my friend's dusty Atari 2600, discovered in a box of his parents' old junk, still managed to make the arcade cabinet sticks look good. …
… The more amusing element here however is the reference to Montezuma's Revenge, a 1981 Atari 2600 game that is weirdly resistant to typical AI game-playing strategies. …
… Atari 2600 box art never looked like the Atari 2600 game on the cartridge, for example. …
… Obsidian seemed to have an easier go of things with Atari and Neverwinter Nights 2. Atari pushed back the deadline to give the team more time, and there was support from BioWare as well. …
… Compulsion launched as a support studio—its website says it got its start in 2009 "as a home office providing services to other game studios," including THQ and Atari—so this isn't entirely unfamiliar territory. …
… "Your friend got a new Atari game, and everybody knew about it, and you went to their house and that was such a huge deal—and whether it was good or not, that was what you had. …
… In April, Atari published Jay and Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt Punch , which is also a sidescrolling beat 'em up but with a modern comic book presentation. …
… He also held executive roles at Midway, Atari, and Accolade. …