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Re: Gauntlet (Atari, actually)

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From: Brian Smithson
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1986 18:07
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In article <534@well.UUCP> farren@well.UUCP (Mike Farren) writes:
>In article <507@well.UUCP> I wrote:
>>...Anyhow, the Atari that makes the 520ST is NOT the
>>same as the Atari that makes arcade games.  Witness Marble Madness, 
>>which will be released first for the Amiga - Atari's not even involved.
> 
>To which, Nathan Glasser (nathan@mit-eddie.UUCP) replied:
>> 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.
>
>     This is the BEST of your knowledge? :-)
>     When Warner Communications sold Atari to Jack Tramiel, the only thing
>they sold was the home computer division.  The coin-op division is still
>owned by Warner.  I can't recall what it is, but there is some small
>difference in the names of the two Ataris.

I hope that this isn't the best of *your* knowledge, either.  Warner sold
both divisions, perhaps not at the same time.  The coin-op division is owned
by Namco.

OK, anyone want to suggest that there are *three* Atari companies? :-)
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From: smithson@calma.UUCP (Brian Smithson)
Newsgroups: net.games.video
Subject: Re: Gauntlet (Atari, actually)
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Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 13:07:59 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 23 13:07:59 1986
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