Atari Has Acquired Over 100 Video Game IPs From The 1980s and 1990s

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Atari seems to have gone hoard mode when it comes to video games IP, as they have announced they have recently acquired over 100 IPs, mainly from games and companies from the 1980s and 1990s.

Quite recently, Atari revealed they would be acquiring NightDive Studios. That news seems to integrate completely with this, as NightDive may be assigned to some of these newly acquired properties.

In the official press release, Atari named these properties in particular:

Atari CEO Wade Rosen also stated that these games they had picked up were from publishers Accolade, Infogrames, and Microprose, though they didn’t say they picked up those three trademarks in particular.

We had already covered this before, but as a refresher, this Atari is not the original Atari from 1972. The company that currently calls itself Atari was originally a French game company called InfoGrames, founded in 1983.

In other words, this Atari is really acting like newer companies like City Connection and Piko Interactive. These companies specialize in rereleases of older video games from the 1980s and 1990s, but you likely won’t be seeing them making new games from those properties.

Some of you reading this aren’t old enough to remember these games, so we’ll briefly run them down below

Bubsy the Cat is a mascot platformer franchise that got its start in 1993 on the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. While often the subject of parody for its poorly received Bubsy 3D, the franchise experienced an unlikely revival a few years back. The most recent game in the series, Bubsy: Paws on Fire!, released in 2019.

Hardball! is a baseball simulator published by Accolade in 1985. It release on multiple 8-bit computers like the Apple ][ and Amiga, and would eventually make