GCW Wants to Reset Atari, raising funds to acquire the brand

Xuphor · Mar 11, 2013

No, just not worth it, at all.

I'm with Hadrian on this one, oddly enough. They weren't that good to begin with and are not by a long shot worth all that money to put them onto another system, just let them stay dead. Or, if you want to play them, then just play them on any other the other ~15 systems they're out on. If you want it on handheld so desperately, buy a PSP for $50 or less and emulate all of them pretty much perfectly. Also throw in SNES, GBA, and PS1 with those if you do that though.

Senbei Norimaki · Mar 12, 2013

I can already play Atari games on my Xbox and probably also my phone, psp , wii, and 3ds. Why would I want GCW to own the games?

Snailface · Mar 12, 2013

nukeboy95 said:
ha ha ha

digging up the landfill

Now that's a shovel-ready kickstarter I can get behind!

None of this, "give us $150 bucks so we can slap a few 2600 ROMS on your GCW", nonsense.

Hielkenator · Mar 12, 2013

just to remind some people,
ATARI did A LOT more than 2600 games.
They where distributing many TOP games, also.

c_house · Mar 12, 2013

I'll be surprised if they pull this off, although Atari probably isn't worth much nowadays

. Not going to support them on this, but definitely thinking about buying the console.

Ergo · Mar 12, 2013

I fail to see how this benefits anyone but GCW? Surely they aren't just going after this for some legal 2600 (or Jaguar or whatever) ROMs for the GCW when they're basically enabling piracy of every other console pre-PlayStation? This sounds more like "we'll get the entire brand, etc., lock, stock, and barrel by leveraging the goodwill GCW has, and then we'll go and make bank on licensing and merchandising after we throw the community a bone with some free 2600 games--thanks suckers!"

I dunno, maybe I'm just too cynical...

(Also, to me at least, 250k sounds awfully lowball for the back-catalog *and* the brand.)

Surkow · Mar 12, 2013

This is the main motivation to get more legal offerings (people don't seem to read the Kickstarter page):

We want to create a repository, similar to an App Market, where users can download free, open source software and also buy closed-source/indie software from developers. We would like to have classic games in this repository as well: for games that have an open source engine and proprietary data, we would like to make it simple for users to buy and install the data files. A successful KickStarter project could help attract attention of proprietary data rights holders. This would allow us to host or provide it along with the game engine. All games/applications submitted to the App Market will be reviewed for copyright compliance.

Senbei Norimaki said:
I can already play Atari games on my Xbox and probably also my phone, psp , wii, and 3ds. Why would I want GCW to own the games?

Do you think there is a guarantee the new owner (if the campaign fails) will allow GCW to license them? There is no guarantee.

It is solely intended to make it easier for users. Users who prefer to use their own games can still do so after this. Emulation will not become a walled garden.

Ericthegreat · Mar 12, 2013

So if they acquire atari that means we get legacy of goku 4 right? If not then screw this....

urbanman2004 · Mar 18, 2013

I would be kind of leary of their move as well... no point to fund when I can emulate Atari on various gaming platforms available to to me already.

FAST6191 · Mar 18, 2013

urbanman2004 said:
no point to fund when I can emulate Atari on various gaming platforms available to to me already.

Will it matter practically to people that do well on this website? No not really. However it is not entirely without merit should it allow for the games to be distributed somewhat more easily and, more importantly, legally; copyright lasts an awfully long time and as such there is not much in the way of public domain for games and a healthy public domain is a good thing indeed. The trouble for me comes in their intended mode of business once they get them; I could see immediately turning them to the public domain or an extremely permissive license and I could see them setting up a kind of foundation to manage it with fairly permissive licensing but they have not gone into much detail as to what they plan (at least at the time of the OP- I do not know what they have said since) and funding just another IP grab is what would not sit right with me. Had they come out and led with the former I would be there waving the flag but pending further info I will be merely be keeping an eye on it.

Ziggy Zigzagoon · Apr 7, 2013

The funding thing was cancelled.
I hope that the 'public domain' option is on, now.

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