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Retro Gaming Gets Hot
An anonymous reader writes "Apparently, retro gaming is big business, according to a recent article in The Rocky Mountain News. The story talks to Nintendo, Namco and the maker of those all in one controllers that feature games from old systems like Atari. Lin Leng, who's working on the latest Pac-Man game, summarizes it best: 'The games today are hyper-realistic, photo-realistic and take a long time to complete, an average of 20 hours of gameplay,' he said. 'But with Pac-Man you just jump in and play and you get a quick fix. It also brings back childhood memories for some of us.' There's also an interesting sidebar to the story talking about Invader, the Parisian graffiti artist tagging famous locations around the world with images from Space Invaders. The author's website has the full interview with Invader posted in his weblog."
Take for instance a band called The Ataris, who cover a fucking Don Henley song and are passed off as cool. Don Henley, for shit's sake!
Listen, Atari's had some weird people tied to it (Howard Scott Warshaw), but we don't need some mall punk band with a vicarious link to Don Henley bopping around, acting all cool, selling records, using the Atari name! Hell, we don't need Infogrames using the Atari name, either, but they kinda bought them...
Fuck it, make like their was no agreement to let the band use the Atari name and sue the shit out of them. Try to make up for your wrongs, Infogrames version of Atari.
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