7th September 2023, 3:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 7th September 2023, 3:44 PM by A Black Falcon.)
I can't imagine they would buy the site only to delete the forum, at least not anytime soon; it's one of the main features the site has. But this sure explains why AtariAge removed all unlicensed releases based on games from publishers other than Atari earlier this summer! Huh. I hope that Atari runs AtariAge well, it is an important retro-gaming site.
The current Atari started out as Infogrames, the French game studio. They bought Atari from Hasbro in the early '00s or so, then changed their name to Atari. Then they fell apart as an actual game studio and shut down, and spent some years as just a licensing company lending out Atari's name and logo.
But then, they decided to get back into games in a small way, focusing on retro. They released their computer console thing the Atari VCS, and also they've re-released some 2600 games on real carts. There's also Atari 50, of course, which is a very impressive collection. It's the most interested in their history Atari we've had in a long time. That they'd want to buy out AtariAge, the best known Atari fan community and homebrew game store for Atari consoles, makes sense when you think about it. I'd imagine they would mostly want to use it for what it is but more official now, not shut it down.
And on that point, apparently Al, the guy who runs AtariAge, will be an Atari employee now. I imagine that AtariAge could well get shut down eventually, but I don't think it will be now.
Despite that, do I think this is good, probably not; fansites usually do go downhill once they go corporate. But maybe it'll be okay.
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/354609...age-atari/
The current Atari started out as Infogrames, the French game studio. They bought Atari from Hasbro in the early '00s or so, then changed their name to Atari. Then they fell apart as an actual game studio and shut down, and spent some years as just a licensing company lending out Atari's name and logo.
But then, they decided to get back into games in a small way, focusing on retro. They released their computer console thing the Atari VCS, and also they've re-released some 2600 games on real carts. There's also Atari 50, of course, which is a very impressive collection. It's the most interested in their history Atari we've had in a long time. That they'd want to buy out AtariAge, the best known Atari fan community and homebrew game store for Atari consoles, makes sense when you think about it. I'd imagine they would mostly want to use it for what it is but more official now, not shut it down.
And on that point, apparently Al, the guy who runs AtariAge, will be an Atari employee now. I imagine that AtariAge could well get shut down eventually, but I don't think it will be now.
Despite that, do I think this is good, probably not; fansites usually do go downhill once they go corporate. But maybe it'll be okay.
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/354609...age-atari/
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