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"Atari" goes down the crapper

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  • ViscountalphaViscountalpha The pen is mightier than the sword http://youtu.be/G_sBOsh-vyIRegistered User regular
    edited November 2007
    august wrote: »
    You obviously don't hate games enough to be trusted to run Atari.

    Ever since ray kassar, Atari was never the same. That is when atari started to die. And it has been a long, slow, miserable death since.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kassar

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  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Which version of Atari was it that published Unreal Tournament 2k4?

    I was fairly sure that it was the Infogrames version, but now I'm less confident.

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  • VoodooVVoodooV Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    korodullin wrote: »
    Think about it. Do you really want the Infogrames of today attempting to revive X-Com? Hell, even the Infogrames of a few years past.

    Fuck, just a simple repackaging of the games to run on current systems would have been nice. I know you can play X-com on current systems now, but I think you have to use dosbox. But there are other issues with it no? Just an update so that all we have to do is install and go.

    They released TFTD on Steam. why not the rest of X-com? Or they could have finished X-Com: Alliance, the FPS version of X-Com. Maybe it would have stunk like Interceptor, sure. But it would at least be nice to have the option of playing it and finding out for ourselves!

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  • cloudeaglecloudeagle Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    august wrote: »
    You obviously don't hate games enough to be trusted to run Atari.

    Ever since ray kassar, Atari was never the same. That is when atari started to die. And it has been a long, slow, miserable death since.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kassar

    Well, Atari started to die during the whole E.T. debacle, which according to that article was a decision made by his corporate overlords (Warner Bros.).

    I actually convinced myself at the age of seven that that was a good game, even though I needed a strategy guide to figure out what the hell was going on.

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  • GrimReaperGrimReaper Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Saddler wrote: »
    *snip*

    * A.P.B.

    *snip lots of great games *

    APB would rock as a remake, imagine something of a cross between Crazy Taxi/GTA. Plus, they'd have to keep the police brutality interrogation mini-game. They could flesh it out a bit, let you go all guantanamo on suspects.

    "Talk!" (complete with water boarding)

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  • RookRook Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    GrimReaper wrote: »
    Saddler wrote: »
    *snip*

    * A.P.B.

    *snip lots of great games *

    APB would rock as a remake, imagine something of a cross between Crazy Taxi/GTA. Plus, they'd have to keep the police brutality interrogation mini-game. They could flesh it out a bit, let you go all guantanamo on suspects.

    "Talk!" (complete with water boarding)


    I thought APB was being made into an MMO by some ex-GrandTheft people.

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Wait, Infogrames bought Microprose? The guys that made Air Duel? That game was the fucking shit back in the day, and a buddy of mine used to play with me over our 56k modems. :D

    edit: Turns out Air Duel was only published by Microprose. Oh well, the point still stands that it was awesome.

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  • Forever ZefiroForever Zefiro cloaked in the midnight glory of an event horizonRegistered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Atari went down the crapper when Bushnell sold it off

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Rook wrote: »
    GrimReaper wrote: »
    Saddler wrote: »
    *snip*

    * A.P.B.

    *snip lots of great games *

    APB would rock as a remake, imagine something of a cross between Crazy Taxi/GTA. Plus, they'd have to keep the police brutality interrogation mini-game. They could flesh it out a bit, let you go all guantanamo on suspects.

    "Talk!" (complete with water boarding)


    I thought APB was being made into an MMO by some ex-GrandTheft people.

    There is APB being made by RealTime Worlds (the Crackdown chaps), but I don't know how much of an MMO that is, or how much relation it has to the original.

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