Atari funded the setting up of Lucasfilm’s Games Group?

[barnieg]

This article about the making of Rescue on Fractalus http://www.nowgamer...._fractalus.html states ...Lucasfilm’s Games Group had been set up with $1 million of funding from Atari...

 

Can our resident Atari historians confirm this as true?

[high voltage]

The force was strong with ATARI: