Atari's 2024 Recap Video Shows How Important Its Acquisitions Have Been

Fun Fact: Wade's Brother is apparently the head of "Games and Emerging Media" at Paramount.

Wait... Aren't these people who also bought, and closed, Awesomenauts' devekopment team?

They are making much smarter decisions lately for sure. No idiotic hotels, bad revamps that look like asset flips, or Speaker Hats. I love the Digital Eclipse collections, and Nightdive is doing God's work.
So, Atari? Do NOT screw this up. Please.

While I generally feel like acquisitions are almost always bad for consumers, with Digital Eclipse and Nightdive Atari really did a great job pulling together developers that were kind of naturally aligned to what modern Atari was attempting anyway.

I'm really impressed with their recent projects, especially the Karateka and Llamasoft collections, along with Tetris Forever. They definitely are bringing a refreshing take to retro collections lately and I am here for it!

@Paraka Nah, Atari simply bought that studio's (Ronimo Games) IP after they filed for bankruptcy, IIRC

I wish they would do something with the Rush franchise, specifically a Rush 2 remaster. That would be awesome!
That’s assuming they even own the IP now though. I have no idea who owns it at this point.

@Laurenzio - Oof, another good one bites the dust.

But alas, thus is the warning from making service games.

Good recap. Just made me realize I still don't play Atari games for some reason, although the anniversary set has piqued my interest. Maybe 2025 will be a good year to dive in.

I thought system shock was a remake and not a remaster. Am I wrong or are you just using the term remaster as a catch all?

“Stellar year for Atari,” is not a sentence I thought I’d ever read this long after 1983.

@Pillowpants Play Yars Rising. It is th best looking WayForward game ever (yes i say that as thrle guy who liked the project the team rolled off from; Re-Boot Camp)

@Chibi Rush was made after the first buy-out of Atari by Warner Bros, and as an Arcade game made in that time stayed at Warner Bros following the divorce along with the rest of the arcade division from that time. Zaslov keeps it lumped in with the Midway stuff for thr occasional barcade/micro console license deal. But seeing as Zaslov seems to only see value in Mortal Kombat (and maybe Rampage) it may end up in the Wade horde eventually.

@JohnnyMind We still blame that entirely on Randy, and the government of Montreal.

@Zeebor15 Right! Yars Rising is published by Atari, but developed by WayForward.

And it was a lot of fun. 😊

@DwaynesGames And we thank U&I Entertainment everyday that we can buy it at Target, and not get the Josh Fairhurst special.

@DwaynesGames @Zeebor15 came here specifically to ask if Yars' Revenge was any good — thought it looked decent and been hovering over a sale purchase for a fair bit.

@Andee I found it to be a fun metroidvania, but I also have a lot of nostalgia for the IP. It probably won’t be too difficult for most, but I wasn’t looking for a “hard as nails” game. And I did like the soundtrack. Enjoy! 😊

@DwaynesGames oh yeah, same — Dead Cells is just about my level of comfortable peak difficulty; I have too big a backlog to be a full-time masochist

@Andee It's much closer to Zero Mission than anything else, meaning it's easy if you take your time. Until the final boss bends you over a barrel. That's a bit of a spike.

Like in the older times, Atari rises again while Coleco, Odyssey, and Intellivision are dead and gone.

@Zeebor15 ouch!

I really like the way "new" Atari are going about things. The acquisitions of Digital Eclipse and Nightdive are a great match and they've done a lot to reignite interest in their own back catalogue.

The Atari 50 collection is exactly how those types of games should be done. Long may they continue.

Stellar year for the zombie company wearing Atari's skin, which only exists to acquire other companies because it can't create anything of its own and can't survive solely on the reanimated bits.

I wish they could get the rights to Paperboy….do a modern remake….

@Coalescence This Atari actually respects its heritage. Does it not count as Atari unless the original programmers come back?

If you haven't played Atari 50 yet, I would highly recommend it.

Companies change and evolve. Atari has, for the better.

So happy with Ataris direction. There’s some seriously fun games there.