Atari just bought Intellivision, putting an end to the very first console war
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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
Basically a Ship of Theseus argument though. The current iteration of the company is selling their retro games and hardware again at least.
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.
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.
No way the vgm guy sold? No more almost-releasing-a-new-version? Aw.
Ah.
Lol
Fucking Tallarico, man. Even Atari doesn't want anything to do with that mess.
But, but, the Amico is on the launchpad and just needs a little more fuel!!!
/s
This is actually the best case scenario for Atari.
Who won?
Not consumers, that's for sure
Nintendo.
Pit Fall Harry won.
At the time, Atari did. At least between those two.
From the article...
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.
AntiCommercial-AIlicense(CCBY-NC-SA4.0)Maybe they wanted to one-up the PS Portal? XD
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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