Atari Declares Bankruptcy

Who cares? This thing called Atari is really just Infogrames with a borrowed name. And Infogrames is really just GT Interactive. So it's more like "company currently in possession of borrowed and reborrowed name declares bankruptcy."

As it was pointed out to me a day ago, here are a few more versions of the story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5090807 (venturebeat.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092088 (telegraph.co.uk)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092123 (bloomberg.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092327 (guardian.co.uk)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092447 (latimes.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092764 (lohud.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092889 (bbc.co.uk)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5093489 (cnn.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5094529 (wsj.com)

> "People, once upon a time, would use 'Atari' in place of the term video games,"

I'm a little young for Atari, but a decade or so later, when I was a kid, we would use "Nintendo" or "Mario" as synonyms for "video games".

"Hey want to play Mario?" "Sure, what game?" "Double Dragon/Zelda/Excite Bike/etc" Was a common conversation among my friends circa 1988 or so.

This is the best of Atari: http://www.atariage.com/ http://www.atari.org/

Atari Force go! http://www.atariage.com/comics/index.html

I still have a working Atari 2600 system and some carts.

Too bad the Atari company is but a name for Infogrames and is nothing like the original Atari.

I wished they would re-issue the 2600 console and games.

wow, didnt know they were in trouble - they had http://atari.com/arcade (which i thought was cool).