cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15718927
Atari® — one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — announced today it has purchased the Intellivision brand and certain games from Intellivision Entertainment LLC. Intellivision Entertainment LLC will rebrand and continue its business of developing and distributing the Amico brand game console with a license from Atari to continue to distribute new versions of the Intellivision games on the Amico console.
Atari will seek to expand digital and physical distribution of legacy Intellivision games, potentially create new games, and explore brand and licensing opportunities as part of a long-term plan to create value from the Intellivision properties.
Calling the ATARI computers a “bomb” is a bit disingenuous. The C64 and Amiga computers were more popular, but ATARI was still selling theirs by the millions as a close second.
They’re not even second place in that sentence.
The Atari 8-bit line did okay at best, in a very wide field. The ST was as doomed as all other 68K systems. The Falcon was a brilliant machine - specifically, it was a NeXTstation. Their portables had it going on, but that market was teensy and they weren’t hot in it.
Admittedly their later computers did better than their later consoles, which, I mean, Christ. How do you release the 5200 without 2600 compatibility when the goddamn Colecovision has 2600 compatibility? Which snort proposed making the Lynx bigger?