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PC Gamer: Atari acquires massive Atari archive after revealing a ‘new’ 2600 that takes cartridges

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PC Gamer: Atari acquires massive Atari archive after revealing a ‘new’ 2600 that takes cartridges. “Atari is to acquire AtariAge, which you could call a retro forum though that would vastly undersell what it is: over time this has grown into the best repository for everything Atari (as well as some other companies), both hardware and software, as well as being a major publisher for homebrew software….On top of this [AtariAge founder Albert] Yarusso is to become Atari’s internal historian, which seems rather a good fit, and the site will get the investment it needs for some long-mooted ecommerce functionality.”

GlobeNewswire: Atari Announces the Launch of a Fully Rebuilt and Optimized MobyGames Website (PRESS RELEASE)

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GlobeNewswire: Atari Announces the Launch of a Fully Rebuilt and Optimized MobyGames Website (PRESS RELEASE). “Atari and the team behind MobyGames are pleased to share that all game and account information, contributions, game collections, reviews, images, and more have been successfully migrated to the new website.” This includes, as the release notes, “323,918 games across 311 platforms.”

IGN Southeast Asia: Atari Completes Acquisition of Video Game Online Database ‘MobyGames’

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IGN Southeast Asia: Atari Completes Acquisition of Video Game Online Database ‘MobyGames’. “Similar to the television and film-centric IMDb database, MobyGames provides in-depth and accurate video game credits and information for titles ranging from Triple-A to obscure independent projects. Atari’s role in establishing the modern video game industry directly correlates to MobyGames’ mission to catalogue the history of video games. So it is interesting to see what enhancements can be made to the site from here on out.”

NME: Atari snaps up MobyGames gaming database for £1.1million

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NME: Atari snaps up MobyGames gaming database for £1.1million. “Atari has announced that it is acquiring a user-driven video game database, MobyGames, for £1.1million ($1.5million USD). MobyGames is a resource for gaming history fans. It provides a place to upload summaries, screenshots, box art, and information on developers and their work. The database covers many different games, from the very first games in the 1970s to upcoming releases. The database currently stores details on 300,000 unique titles.”

Boing Boing: Atari ST in daily use since 1985 to run campground

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Boing Boing: Atari ST in daily use since 1985 to run campground. “Here’s an Atari ST that’s been in daily use since 1985 as a general-purpose business machine at a campground, complete with software written by its single careful owner, Frans Bos. Victor Bart interviews him about his decades of happy computing.”

New-to-me: Database of Video Game Consoles

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New to me: a database of video game console variations. Not everything, though, just the top video game companies. “This website is the aim to database all the console variations in the world of the 5 most impactful companies: Nintendo, Atari, Sega, Sony and Microsoft. We have all the console and controller variations ever made.”

Atari Podcast Reaches 200-Interview Milestone

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Like video games? The Atari Podcast has reached its 200th “interview” episode. “The retrocomputing podcast ANTIC: The Atari 8-Bit Podcast was launched in June 2013 and over the course of more than 200 episodes has interviewed people from virtually all aspects of computer history, from game designers to copywriters to corporate executives to attorneys. The subjects were involved in early personal computers such as the Atari 400 and 800 as well the company’s home gaming systems. Some hadn’t been interviewed since the 1970s or ‘80s, and many had never before gone on the record about their roles.”