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Atari CEO Confirms the Company Is Working On a New Game Console (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the it's-coming dept.

Dean Takahashi, reporting for VentureBeat: Atari CEO Fred Chesnais told GamesBeat in an exclusive interview that his fabled video game company is working on a new game console. In doing so, the New York company might be cashing in on the popularity of retro games and Nintendo's NES Classic Edition, which turned out to be surprisingly popular for providing a method to easily play old games like Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda in HD on a TV. Last week, Atari began teasing a new product called the Ataribox. The video released on a non-Atari web site showed a picture of some kind of hardware product, but many people wondered if the teaser was fake. Others had no idea what the video was showing about a "brand new Atari product years in the making."

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  1. Don't waste your time on the article by damn_registrars · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's a couple paragraphs speculating a 22 second video clip of nothing. Do a google image search for the Atari Logo and you will be just as well informed.

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    Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
  2. Re:Sigh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If it's just another Emulator with pre-loaded ROMs, not interesting.

    If they made a fully programmable console with ports for removable media - even if it was just emulating the 2600 - that's a little more interesting

    A catchy tune more about the ZX Spectrum, but still: https://youtu.be/Ts96J7HhO28

    Imagine a modern console platform anybody could cut software for without all the fuckery. Spicy

  3. Just a name, several times over by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Atari (home console company) died when they were reverse-taken over by JTStorage, a hard drive manufacturer, after the Jaguar failed. A whole three Atari employees joined the company (I think one of them did Jaguar technical support for a few more years). Even that tenuous link was broken when JTStorage when out of business and sold the Atari name to someone else. It's been passed around every since, and anyone claiming to be them now just bought the name from someone who bought it from someone, etc.

    The arcade games half of Atari split off and followed it's own path to being a slightly-valuable trademark.

    1. Re:Just a name, several times over by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      It's been passed around every since, and anyone claiming to be them now just bought the name from someone who bought it from someone, etc.

      I worked at Accolade when Infogrames went on a buying spree prior to the dot com bust. After they bought Accolade, they bought Hasbro Interactive that also owned the Atari intellectual property rights. It wasn't a coincidence that headquarters got moved from San Jose to Sunnyvale, home for the original Atari, and the company renamed itself to Atari. I believe that Accolade/Infogrames/Atari (same company, different owners, multiple personality disorders) is still behind the current Atari after the most recent bankruptcy. Whenever I wear an Atari t-shirt out in public, I still run into people who worked at the original Atari.

  4. Re:Jaguar Mark II? by RavenLrD20k · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When you had to put down $5,000 - $6,000 for a PC that could play the games available at the time as opposed to $200-300 on a console that had a larger library and arguably better graphics until EGA/VGA started becoming a thing... PC gaming didn't make sense. It was when Doom came out that the landscape really started to change towards PC's favor.