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[–] Glowstick@lemmy.world 87 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

atari hasn't been the original company called atari in a long time, it's just a brand name that has been bought and sold

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Basically a Ship of Theseus argument though. The current iteration of the company is selling their retro games and hardware again at least.

[–] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Even original Nolan Bushnell's Atari, was bought by Warner Brothers, then (mostly) bought by Jack Tramiel after leaving Commodore. So it's not an unbroken line. Infogrames Fr's new management has quit with the NFT nonsense, and is making Atari-related stuff that isn't awful.

[–] neutron@thelemmy.club 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's like governments representing succeeding states of long dead countries that were in a war centuries or millennia ago coming together to shake hands and take pictures.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No way the vgm guy sold? No more almost-releasing-a-new-version? Aw.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ah.

The deal doesn’t include the long-delayed Intellivision Amico retro console. Intellivision Entertainment LLC will continue working on the Amico as a separate and rebranded company and will use a license provided by Atari to release Intellivision games on it.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol

Fucking Tallarico, man. Even Atari doesn't want anything to do with that mess.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 year ago

But, but, the Amico is on the launchpad and just needs a little more fuel!!!

/s

[–] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

This is actually the best case scenario for Atari.

[–] TheDeepState@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

Not consumers, that's for sure

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago
[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Pit Fall Harry won.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At the time, Atari did. At least between those two.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

From the article...

It did manage, however, to release a truly bizarre app for iOS and Android devices that requires two smartphones or tablets to work. One device displays the game and the other acts as a controller. It’s a weird idea and, according to Kotaku, "one janky piece of crap."

The only reason I can think of them doing that is maybe because of CPU overutilization?

Either that, or they wanted to set one up as a game server, and then have multiple phones be the clients. They just forgot to add the feature to let the server run locally on the client.

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[–] Glowstick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For many many years even low end Android phones can perfectly run emulated game systems that came out a decade or two after atari, so cpu probably isn't a bottleneck at all

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

For many many years even low end Android phones can perfectly run emulated game systems that came out a decade or two after atari, so cpu probably isn’t a bottleneck at all

Yeah, I kind of agree, but I just threw it out there as a possibility, as maybe their code base is really bad and non-performant.

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[–] SharkAttak@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe they wanted to one-up the PS Portal? XD