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Didn't know Infogrames still existed. I only knew them back in the old SNES days with games like Asterix etc.

the atari didnt help with the gaming world .... it just spawned a **** load of crummy pixels all piled on top of each other ... pong . honestly, shockin game !

Hey if you don't make great games it doesn't matter who you fire.

"Kanaric
"Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms On-Line" game"
I don't trust them to make that right now. If they do they better make it have great pvp and lots of player owned content, like Star Wars Galaxies and Shadowbane had. They will just make a WoW clone, a bad WoW clone."

You are right. And that is depressing. Damn Wizards of The Coast for giving Atari the sole ability to make D&D games. This sucks. WHO do you think COULD make an awesome "Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms On-Line" game these days if they were allowed to?

You can have as many finacinal advisors as you want but if you don't make good games, you won't make money.

well, regardless of who is running things behind the curtain, I'm sure Neverwinter Nights 2 will help bring Atari a little more success for a short while

Bring back WELL DONE next generation versions of arcade games like Paperboy, Joust, Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters, A.P.B, Super Sprint, Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom, KLAX, Rampart, Pole Position, Missile Command, Major Havoc, Gauntlet, 720, Hard Drivin, Marble Madness, STUN Runner, Cyberball, Xybots, Toobin...................and on, and on, and on. Bottom line is that instead of making all of this s***, hire some good programmers and designers and start using the intellectual properties that made Atari an arcade legend. It might take more $$$ to start out with (as opposed to making several s*** titles), but Atari will become a powerhouse(and money maker) once again.

they do have a lot of bad games... or at least in my opinion

What they need to do is give their companies time to make their games and use their GREAT IP they own effectively.
They own X-Com, Master Of Orion, all of Microprose's IP that they had no problems making money with. How is Atari having problems? Oh they hire bad developers and fire their award winning designers.

Also they need to make Baldurs Gate style RPGs rather than this Demon Stone crap.

"Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms On-Line" game"
I don't trust them to make that right now. If they do they better make it have great pvp and lots of player owned content, like Star Wars Galaxies and Shadowbane had. They will just make a WoW clone, a bad WoW clone.

.... No, not going to help in the least. They need to start making great games, that's the only thing that can help.

It won't help because the games still suck monkey ballz.

Note to new Atari Board Members: Make a "Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms On-Line" game and you will be richer than Blizzard with World of Warcraft! Make it the WHOLE "Forgotten Realms" . It will be the best MMORPG ever made. Your D&D: Online Game blew Monkey Ballz. Not because it is D&D, but because the world of Ebberon is lamer than a dead duck. So make the "Forgotten Realms" and start in Waterdeep and the North! Then expand the Realms every year or so with a new expansion pack. D&D player will be addicted! I know I would be. Otherwise you fools and doomed to fail.

The thing about this generations "ATARI"

look for DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 3 to be a big seller from atari. I hope they make another test drive for Xbox 360 also, that was a good game!

wow these guys dont give up.

they should make a next gen joust, E.T, moon patrol, and other atari classics

I thought this was about an actual board...not a board of directors!

Lawyers and bean counters. Not a gamer or visionary in the bunch. Look for more of the same from the brand.

It would be nice to see Atari get to the point where they have some small amount of industry respectability but I'm not holding my breath.

A new console maybe? Hmmmmm, better then the Jaguar I hope, eventho I didnt mind it, I was playing on it at my friends house the other day actually. A little Doom action...heheheh

@ dreamer77dd:
Clearly they've already sapped your spelling ability with their "mind contral"

Good on you guys. You need something to bring you back to form and hopefully this is it!

bring back the oldschool games

Hmm think atari has bin saving there money and privately funding a military style take over. There going to suck the information out of are brain and run tests on us with out us knowing it well we play something. Mind contral. There not about the game, there about the brain. hmm

Atari, ay? Used to be the best in the bizz, now I cant see them getting anywhere anymore.

Old Atari: Legendary.
New Atari: Sucks assary.

I wonder if this will be enough...

The only Atari title I liked is Driver..................Oh wait Ubisoft now own that. So that means there is pretty much nothing left that I like?
Marc Eckos getting up was good but I dought we'll see a sequel. (I hope so though)
I'm hoping Atari make it back up the ranks again, here's hoping to them making a killer new i.p in the near future.

I've got a crazy idea how about putting a Joe Gamer on the board?

Lets hope that this move will save Atari from shure parish ... I really hope so

The wii really only has 1st party games for it and developers aren't jumping to develop innovative games.If Atari focuses on the wii they could build their profits going that route.About the onlyt shot they have unless they go the usual route of making crappy FPS games.

To me, Atari is a legendary name within the gaming world. If these moves help bring the company back, then so be it.

Atari should just die already.

I don't think that Atari can be saved... I just don't see them coming back... Sad as that is.

About time. This company has been going down for a long time. Hope they can bring it back, it would be a shame to lose the Atari brand.

The_Weekend == ...that they are still number one :p

Atari!?....hmmm...i heard that name before....somewhere.

And what are they hoping to proof here?

didnt atari go bust because of that god awful E.T game ?? that a bundle of copies got buried in the new mexico desert ??

Yeah i dont know about a comeback in the hardware biz, but some good software would be nice. I dont think anyon should jump into the hardware biz at the moment because i think the market is already flooded.

Atari needs a comeback in the hardware biz.

I have been digging through my massive Atari ST collection recently, gotta love the old Atari ST

Anyways - From being so wrapped up in Atari ST over the last few weeks, seeing this article kinda made me get all wide-eyed about Atari making a new "board".
And for some reason, I interpreted that asthem making some sort of motherboard for a new computer or console.

My obsession with Atari ST recently made me think that this article was in relation to Atari coming out with a new generation of console. Bring back the old computer/console hybrids....

Unfortunately, this news is non essential as changing directors around won't improve Atari's credibility.
Atari need to think outside of the box and make a portion of the market their own, like Nintendo have done.

I loved the Atari ST, but since then everything else from Atari has been a complete waste of time and money.
Unless they are bringing out a next-gen opensource atari st - im not interested!

How is this news?

I thought we were talking about a new something. Don't really care to much about board members, as long as they push out great games.

And I got my hopes up for a new console .

Atari isn't even Atari anymore. It's just a name and it's been on life support for years. For the oldest gamers, I know it's hard...but you have to let go at some point.

slick title

it's been over for atari, maybe this will help accomplish something