Atari Is Jumping on the Crypto Bandwagon (bloomberg.com)

Atari has announced plans to create a company token and potentially develop cryptocurrency-based casino platforms. The company, commonly associated with arcade classics such as Asteroids, Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Pong, seems to believe new life can be breathed into the casino industry through cryptocurrency. From a report: "Blockchain technology is poised to take a very important place in our environment and to transform, if not revolutionize, the current economic ecosystem, especially in the areas of the video game industry and online transactions," Atari Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Frederic Chesnais said in the statement. "Our aim is to take strategic positions with a limited cash risk, in order to best create value with the assets and the Atari brand."

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Code signing in the Atari 7800

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Especially because Atari was the first console maker to jump on the actual crypto bandwagon, using code signing in the Atari 7800 ProSystem firmware.

Nintendo's competing solution was a pseudorandom number generator called 10NES that ran on a pair of matching microcontrollers, one in the console and one in the game cartridge, not interacting with the game program itself in any way other than to trigger release from reset. True, synchronized PRNGs could be considered a stream cipher, but when viewed as such, the plaintext is a constant stream of zeroes.