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Atari just bought Intellivision, putting an end to the very first console war (www.engadget.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 86 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Basically a Ship of Theseus argument though. The current iteration of the company is selling their retro games and hardware again at least.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

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.