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In article <880501041352.036351@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA> Friesen@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA writes:

> like to see Atari (arcade games division) get together with Atari
> (computer division) and program some of their arcade games for the ST.

Atari Games is a subsidiary of Warner Communications.  Atari Corp is a
computer company, sold by Warner to the Tramiels several years ago.
The two companies, therefore, are totally distinct (they do not have
the same corporate parent, in fact, Atari Corp is public), and neither
really cares what the other does.

> I have played two fairly new games in the arcade by Atari, and they are
> excellent.  They are Roadblasters, and Blasteroids.

Roadblaster (singular, I believe) is indeed excellent, but then, the
quality of the average Atari coin-op is very high.   Witness 720,
Rolling Thunder, I Robot, Dragon Spirit, Gauntlet and Gauntlet II,
Major Havoc, APB, et. al.


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