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Article #487Re: Gauntlet (Atari, actually)
From: Tom Westberg
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1986 14:57
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1986 14:57
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In article <1005@mit-eddie.UUCP> nathan@mit-eddie.UUCP (Nathan Glasser) writes: > >What makes you think that they are not the same Atari? Because of >what you heard about Marble Madness? To the best of my knowledge >there is only one Atari company. > The Atari which built Gauntlet and Marble Madness is named Atari Games. The computer company which produces the 800 and the 520 ST is named Atari Inc. They USED to be the same company. When Jack Tramiel bought Atari he didn't want to do games. He wanted to beat Commodore in home computers. He took the computer and consumer games assets from Atari (owned by Warner Communications) and left Warner the video game assets (which they renamed Atari Games). There is probably some relationship at the companies' high levels (since Warner still has some interest in both companies), but not much. The old Atari would NEVER have supported a Commodore computer (with Marble Madness) before their own.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gcc-milo.ARPA Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!gcc-milo!tom From: tom@gcc-milo.ARPA (Tom Westberg) Newsgroups: net.games.video Subject: Re: Gauntlet (Atari, actually) Message-ID: <443@gcc-milo.ARPA> Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 09:57:44 EST Article-I.D.: gcc-milo.443 Posted: Tue Jan 21 09:57:44 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Jan-86 21:00:15 EST References: <160@ulowell.UUCP> <1295@hpda.UUCP> <507@well.UUCP> <1005@mit-eddie.UUCP> Reply-To: tom@gcc-milo.UUCP (Tom Westberg) Distribution: net Organization: General Computer Company, Cambridge Ma Lines: 21