Atari has introduced the acquisition of over 100 PC and console titles launched within the Eighties and Nineties from Accolade, Micropose and Infogrames. Engadget reviews: Atari’s possession and catalogue have modified palms a bit since its heyday, so the acquisition features a homecoming for a few of Atari’s IPs. It is also including Accolade’s trademark to its vault. The newly Atari-owned video games embrace the Demolition Racer collection, Bubsy and Hardball. “Many of those titles are part of Atari historical past, and followers can look ahead to seeing many of those video games re-released in bodily and digital codecs, and in some instances, even ported to fashionable consoles,” Wade Rosen, Atari’s CEO, mentioned in a press release.
Atari is actually gunning for a comeback, with a “multi-year effort to remodel the corporate” and investments in IPs folks care about (reimagined variations of Asteroids and Missile Command are reportedly within the works). […] With its newest buy, Atari says it can rerelease already current video games on fashionable consoles and create new variations of previous storylines.