Atari buys up over 100 'groundbreaking and award-winning' games from the '80s and '90s and says 'many' will be re-released
Something strange has been going on at Atari in recent years: Under CEO Wade Rosen, who's held that position since April 2021, Atari has overseen some good re-imaginings of its old titles, culminating in a 50th anniversary game smooshing together elements of the company's history that was pretty great.
Atari has now announced via press release it's acquired «more than 100 PC and console titles from the 1980s and 1990s.» The games seem to be mostly from the back catalogues of three publishers: Accolade, Infogrames and Microprose. Included among them are games from the Bubsy the Bobcat series, Hardball, Demolition Racer, and the 1942: Pacific Air War, F-117A, and F-14 air combat series. Following the acquisition Atari is going to look to re-release certain of these titles, sell merch, and most importantly «create new games based on the IP.»
«This is a deep catalog that includes groundbreaking and award-winning titles from Accolade, Infogrames and Microprose,» said Atari CEO Wade Rosen. «Many of these titles are a part of Atari history, and fans can look forward to seeing many of these games re-released in physical and digital formats, and in some cases, even ported to modern consoles.»
As part of the deal Atari's also acquired the Accolade and GTI brands, the former of which in particular makes me rather nostalgic: Accolade was a big player in games publishing until it went down in 2000. This follows hot on the heels of last month's announcement of the purchase of the (so far excellent) Nightdive Studios, which can fairly be called a retro specialist studio, and the acquisition of the classic Berzerk game.
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