Interesting article about Atari....or is it more miss-information

[carmel_andrews]

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http://www.whoinventedit.net/who-invented-atari.html

 

 

Particularly interested in the following text in the above link

 

 

Fall of Atari

The history of Atari in the 1990s and 2000s was that of being sold and resold. A company called Sega put in $40 million to gain rights to all is property. Two years later a new division of Atari was setup but it failed.

 

 

I think that is the 'miss-information' bit, from what i remember the 40 million mentioned in the article was nothing to do with sega getting any Atari properties, sega and atari from what i remember settled a patent case out of court that had been going on a 2 years or so, the 40 million atari received was part of the settlement as well as sega obtaining about 8 p/c of atari stock/shares, and in any case sega certainly didn't acquire any of Atari's properties though they did subsequently sign a joint software licencing agreement....Sega didn't 'put' 40 million into Atari

 

The other bit of the article that i found interesting was the bit about this 'atari division' that was started up and then failed, what Atari division was this, or are they referring to the Atari/JTS merger, which resulted in JTS offloading atari shortly after to hasbro (since it, JTS could'nt make any money from Atari....there again neither did hasbro make any money from atari, which is why i guess hasbro sold it's atari assets, as well as microprose etc to Infowhatsitsname)

[Rybags]

Interesting? Not really. A brief article with little attention to detail, they even list the sale to Warner as 1975 when it was 1976.

 

There's a rating thing on the article, I got the ball rolling with "1/10"