Author: Steve (xosun221.starstream.net)
Date: 12-26-2003 08:11
Sure the 8-but machines actually never lost their grassroots support and while most of the third party vendors have died off, a few others have actually cropped up.
Also, emulation and the internet have fed the previously unquenched world-wide thirst for the 8-bits that until this time have gone unanswered. What I mean by that is the hundreds of thousands of "isolated" i.e. pre-internet Atari lovers who never had an opportunity to get or use a wide variety of the available software or games are now doing so via the internet and the emulators are fueling new interest among the previous followers and bringing many newcomers as well.
In addition after what was left of the original Atari was finally absorbed by JTS in 1996 the rights were then sold to Hasbro than eventually to the MAJOR PC game maker INFOGRAMS who bought all rights and has renamed the company ATARI! The Atari name is now all over the boxes of the finest state of the art games available today such as the Unreal Tournament games 2003, 2004, Unreal II The Awaking, DragonBall Z: Budokai 2, Stuntdriver, etc.
The Atari symbol is finally all over national television again every day, just like it was in the 80s so all is right with the world again. :)
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