Atari Has More Hardware To Come

The people at Time Extension and Atari CEO Wade Rosen have been having a conversation about how things are going for Atari: the old name has had something of a revival lately. Not only has Atari found success in software with the well received Atari 50 collection, but we’ve even had new Atari consoles release. The 2600+ not only let long time fans play their old cartridges, it also came with a set of new games that Atari released on a physical medium.

In the recent interview with Time Extension, Wade Rosen explained:

‘We’ve been really happy with the reception from fans and just the reception from the market. So there will certainly be more projects in that vein.’

Just what we’ll see from Atari is anyone’s guess, but the possibilities are certainly intriguing. Not only has Mr. Rosen shown a willingness to pull from Atari’s fast back catalogue, he’s also shown he a desire to expand that catalogue with purchases of other IPs that Atari lost in the past. On top of that there’s been a storm of acquisitions of other developers; Nightdive Studios came with their expertise in bringing old games to new consoles with their Kexs engine, and no one has proven better at puting together a compilation like Digital Eclipse.

New consoles? New games? I think it’s safe to say we’ll be seeing both in the future.

Playing videogames, writing about videogames, considering videogames—that about sums it up. Videogames are the one hobby that I’ve kept since I was only little, zapping ducks on the NES or knocking out MR. X. And when I’m not enjoying classics from the bit generation of games or checking out those earliest of polygons, I’m probably playing something from today’s age of modern gaming: if I’m not complaining about it. Something I’m doing at the moment? Returning to Triangle Strategy to see some of the other endings.