Atari might close :(

[Schwarz]

I started playing video games with the Atari.
I know Atari have not made much since the 80s but Atari still brings back nostalgia and good memories to me.
In a now merciless market in the videogame dapartement, Atari has already closed several studios that were losing money for the next-generation gaming.
Atari would need a good selling game very soon because so far the sales have gone done the drain from 539.5 million in 2003 to 395.2 last year in 2005.
This is a big 26 percent loss in 2 years...

- Schwarz

[liqnit]

539.5 million in 2003 to 395.2 last year in 2005.
it is still one of the largest game company around so i am not sure close is very near
any way you probably know that Atari is just the name beeing bought
by Infogram and use by it since then.
it is not your nosltalgic comany you remember.

But yest this name does affect the a hurt

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[digitalwanderer]

Damn it, I remember too many late nights with my 2600 as a kid back when it was just called "an Atari". :?

I even was excited when I found the Atari stickers in UT2k3, (or UT2k4, I space which), and slapped one on my monitor right away....and it always gives me a smile. :)

I hope they make it, they've fooled me before into thinking they were dead....

[pym]

Well, it will be really sad if they will be closed.
My first video game was Pong on the Atari.
I remember the day I got it, those are really warm memories...
Although, as liqnit said, it is not exactly Atari that we knew back then...

Anyway, the next game that should help Atari out and I guess is the most important for their survival is Driver Parallel Lines.
Atari tries to convince us that this sequel in the good old series is going to be different, much better one.
A bunch of screenshots that were released gives us some idea about the very good looking graphics.
Offers an open, fast-paced driving action-movie experience and features an unfolding storyline of double crossing and revenge
The first half of Driver: Parallel Lines is set in New York City during the 1970s.
TK, an 18 year-old driving prodigy and one of the best drivers-for-hire in town and is known by everyone.
TK gets involved with a group to act as the getaway driver.
He has been double crossed and ultimately is imprisoned for 28 years.
Jumping to 2006, into the action, TK is older, meaner and seeking revenge and his lost fame.

Driver: Parallel Lines will be released Mar 14, 2006 to PS2 and XBOX.
I sure hope that Atari's new Driver will be good enough too push her forward into the future!
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