Oh no, Atari have bought MobyGames

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The creature wearing the skin of Atari mostly makes stupid junk I don't care about. It can trade on other people's glories by spaffing off blockchain rubbish and hotels that won't get built and bad microconsoles and endless re-releases with the logo and rights it bought, and I'll think it's stupid but basically not care (aside from that cryptojunk, which is abhorrent). This has now changed with the news that the creature wearing the skin of Atari has bought MobyGames, the extremely good video games database. No, creature, please don't touch things I use and care about.

MobyGames is fantastic. It's a vast database filled by volunteers with information on almost 300,000 games from over 300 platforms spanning decades. It has room for screenshots, artwork, credits, box art, marketing materials, editions, international releases, critic reviews, player reviews, trivia, and more. Like IMDB, but video games. It's hugely impressive and hugely useful.

I turn to MobyGames when a press release claims someone working on a new game was the "creator" of a much-beloved classic, and looking in the credits usually turns up that they were, like, a junior programmer. I turn to MobyGames when I'm trying to figure out if a game I think I remember really was that. I turn to MobyGames when I'm looking to see what else a long-forgotten developer made. It is a website I use personally and professionally, and I worry for its future under the creature wearing the skin of Atari (the French company formerly known as Infogrames).

"The MobyGames community has played a sustained and important role in the documentation, celebration and preservation of video games and supporting MobyGames allows us to give back to the community, and contribute to its