Atari Acquires Retro Specialist Digital Eclipse

@Olliemar28 Ah yes, the critically-acclaimed ‘Man Legacy Collection’.

Atari Anniversary Celebration sounds amazing, and the kind of thing only games can do with their history. I just hope they do it with a company or series I actually care about next, although being owned by Atari now probably makes that unlikely.

Please can we have a Midway Anniversary collection.

Atari 50 is literally the next title I plan to pick up. Bite sized gaming, especially from the classics I grew up with (yup, I'm old ), will always be hard to pass by.

In regards to the acquisition, I'm glad they still have the freedom to go outside the Atari library, and I can't wait to see what they're able to put together in the coming years.

I'd love a re-release of Activision Anthology with the Digital Eclipse touch.

It's neat that Atari is letting Digital Eclipse continue the Gold Master series, I'm still really interested in what they have for the future. But I honestly can't blame Atari for wanting to get Digital Eclipse. When they make a collection like Atari 50 and make your sometimes "Eh" line up of games look historic and amazing, you got something special on your hands.

This sounds fantastic considering I was just planning on buying a VCS this Black Friday. Digital Eclipse has always made bundles of old games something special.

I wish they would remake Klax and Paper Boy….

I'm glad that Atari seems to do ok.

I bought the Atari 50 collection back in june, and I've put more than 40 hours into it since; especially the 2600 port of Millipede is fantastic imo.

The interviews/documentary part of it was also very interesting (I realized how amazing it is what they got out of the Atari 2600's 128 bytes of (ram) memory - and how difficult it really was to code for it) and it lasted me a good 3 or 4 hours.

@Divide_and_Wander I’m an oldie like you and love the classic “bite size games” of that era. The Atari 50 collection is nice but I personally enjoyed the previous Atari collection on Switch more than this 50 set. I also wish they’d bring an Activision Classics out for Switch. The last one published on a Nintendo system, if I recall correctly, was on the GameBoy Advance, so that’s about 20 years old now!

@Kiyata - That’s the compilation i was referencing, only I owned the PS2 version at the time. I put in some solid time playing those games… particularly mega mania, pitfall, river raid, and. spider fighter. That and Midway classics.

"It's also been confirmed that while Digital Eclipse will now fall under the Atari umbrella, the studio will still be free to work on projects with other parties."

This is a huge sigh of relief, and I'm really happy to hear it. They're arguably the best archivists in the business right now, and their work is more important than ever.

I'm glad Atari 50 came out first so that it could be objective.

Seems like thd new Lead of Atari has a Focus and good Direction

Glad they’re able to continue to work on outside projects without issue. After the likes of the Mega Man Collection, Disney Afternoon Collection, Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, and the Cowabunga Collection, I’d be furious if they wouldn’t be able to be behind a Mortal Kombat Kollection, a Tiny Toons Collection, and an Adventure Island Collection, among others.

@Markiemania95 why does Man need a collection? Is he stupid?

Which Atari though?

@90sRetroGaming would love a Tiny Toons collection. Most of the games are solid. Though I have picked almost all of them up in recent years.

@Olliemar28 does this mean that you use some kind of computer software to proof read? Is this common with other websites? If so, it explains why there’s been a dreadful downturn in standards over the last few years (this site is actually very good compared with some).

It does seem that Atari has been doing better for the past few years, but the phrase "Atari's management expertise" still seems silly.

@rockodoodle I don't know, do you think there's still time for Klax in the '20s?

@KingMike I hope so. I wouldn’t want to wait 70 years for a centennial edition, Lol.

Nintendo 50? What do you think this is, 1939? The next solid, round anniversary date you could hope for with Nintendo is 150, and that won't be until 2039. Unless you want to use multiples of five or ten. In that case, maybe 135th anniversary next year? Nintendo doesn't seem to publicly acknowledge their true anniversary date/year though like they do Mario and Zelda.

Still, it would be kind of weird to have a 140th anniversary celebration out of nowhere when Nintendo themselves do not typically publicly acknowledge their past beyond 1985 (or 1981 if you consider Donkey Kong in arcades--which these days sometimes it feels like even Nintendo forgets about...).

IDK about this. Atari has been doing better, but it's not enough of a track record for me to have high confidence this won't wreck DE. I think some good things could come from it: 1) if DE can work on Atari's vast IP catalog. 2) For sure as long as DE can take work from outside of Atari. But, this is the point I'm most concerned with. It could easily get into a conflict of interest, or conflict of priority when it comes to meeting Atari's financial performance schedule - which is the same fate most developers suffer when they get bought by a publisher. I'll hold judgement, but I'm not real favorable to this news.

@GrailUK me too!! Unfortunately we need Warner Bros to unlock their classic arcade vault for all games Midway and Atari Games. It’s the biggest missing retro gap on the Switch hands down.

Wow this Atari ownership Is really making some moves. Like a month ago they acquired AtariAge and now this with DE! I’m impressed.
Also they’re snapped up quite a few retro gaming IP’s as well lately! And I’ll be grabbing the 2600+ as well and a set of brand new paddles so I can finally play a proper round of Kaboom again! Lol

I'm okay with this alignment. It's funny to me how, Atari was what it was back in the day and went through so much, and now it seems like the Atari of today are trying to corner the bite-sized retro vibe, and seem more capable of handling that better than most. I guess what I'm saying is, Atari is "retro vibing" and "retro cool" moreso now than they were in their prime it seems. Atari was technically concurrent to my young self as I just missed being a true Atari kid, and ended up kicking off with the NES with the rest being history, so I have an ongoing fascination with this company's output.

@MeloMan I haven't stopped calling "current Atari" what is still their real name to me, Infogrames. Don't care what the law says.