Author: Mike (1Cust224.tnt8.minneapolis.mn.da.uu.net)
Date: 10-17-1999 01:50
Hey, this is mike from Atari A**ed Pants, Inc. Intl-Ltd (http://aapinc.intl-ltd.net), and I hope that your msg does get to hasbro. If they won't be doing anything but sitting on Atari then hand it over to me, and let me have a go at the 256-bit market when it comes.
carmel_andrews wrote:
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I sure you've all heard by now, that hasbro interactive have got their 'dirty' mits on our beloved Atari- and for what, a paltry 5 million dollars, and what are they doing with it... nothing, after all what's the point of having an acquisition like Atari and turning it into little more then a software company, after all could you imagine IBM turning to manufacturing cosmetics, or sega manufacturing detergents, or sony corporation doing jeans and haute couture, no I didn't think so- so my question is what the bloody hell is Hasbro playing at, obviously they don't know much about Atari's past, because if they did, then they would have kept well away from software publishing, as the last two occasions Atari tried (without much success)to get into the software industry, only eventually led to Atari being sold or bought out
I also seem to remember a hasbro employee saying on their (hasbro/Atari's)website that with the acquisition of Atari, they are looking to recapture past glories (when ....
carmel_andrews wrote:
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I sure you've all heard by now, that hasbro interactive have got their 'dirty' mits on our beloved Atari- and for what, a paltry 5 million dollars, and what are they doing with it... nothing, after all what's the point of having an acquisition like Atari and turning it into little more then a software company, after all could you imagine IBM turning to manufacturing cosmetics, or sega manufacturing detergents, or sony corporation doing jeans and haute couture, no I didn't think so- so my question is what the bloody hell is Hasbro playing at, obviously they don't know much about Atari's past, because if they did, then they would have kept well away from software publishing, as the last two occasions Atari tried (without much success)to get into the software industry, only eventually led to Atari being sold or bought out
I also seem to remember a hasbro employee saying on their (hasbro/Atari's)website that with the acquisition of Atari, they are looking to recapture past glories (when ....
carmel_andrews wrote:
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I sure you've all heard by now, that hasbro interactive have got their 'dirty' mits on our beloved Atari- and for what, a paltry 5 million dollars, and what are they doing with it... nothing, after all what's the point of having an acquisition like Atari and turning it into little more then a software company, after all could you imagine IBM turning to manufacturing cosmetics, or sega manufacturing detergents, or sony corporation doing jeans and haute couture, no I didn't think so- so my question is what the bloody hell is Hasbro playing at, obviously they don't know much about Atari's past, because if they did, then they would have kept well away from software publishing, as the last two occasions Atari tried (without much success)to get into the software industry, only eventually led to Atari being sold or bought out
I also seem to remember a hasbro employee saying on their (hasbro/Atari's)website that with the acquisition of Atari, they are looking to recapture past glories (when ....
carmel_andrews wrote:
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I sure you've all heard by now, that hasbro interactive have got their 'dirty' mits on our beloved Atari- and for what, a paltry 5 million dollars, and what are they doing with it... nothing, after all what's the point of having an acquisition like Atari and turning it into little more then a software company, after all could you imagine IBM turning to manufacturing cosmetics, or sega manufacturing detergents, or sony corporation doing jeans and haute couture, no I didn't think so- so my question is what the bloody hell is Hasbro playing at, obviously they don't know much about Atari's past, because if they did, then they would have kept well away from software publishing, as the last two occasions Atari tried (without much success)to get into the software industry, only eventually led to Atari being sold or bought out
I also seem to remember a hasbro employee saying on their (hasbro/Atari's)website that with the acquisition of Atari, they are looking to recapture past glories (when ....
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