Atari poll

[2600Lives]

Ok, so Atari has had a pretty storied past. Everyone knows about the dumping of the E.T. cartridges and the internal squabbles that plagued the company. That being said, who do you think would be the most generally hated person in Atari's history? My vote goes to Jack Tramiel. He basically flipped all of the video game players the bird and made computers. So, in essence, he went from a market in which Atari had little competition (seriously, how many kids did YOU know that had an Intellivision or a Colecovision?), to one in which the competition was becoming quite fierce and was becoming more fierce daily. So, who from Atari do you hate the most?

[King Atari]

Tramiel, of course.

[Chris++]

Ditto.

[Happy_Dude]

Tramiel was just an idiot.

And youd have to be a bigger idiot to sell Atari to him

[Nall3k]

Ray Kassar, because hes the one that sold Atari to Tramiel in the first place.

[AtariDude]

The entire Tramiel family (I wish I had one ring to bind them all - Lord of the Rings reference) for being idiots as well as not buying Amiga Inc when they had the chance. Just imagine the Atari Amiga computer (The ST was a good machine but only Europe was somewhat successful).

 

Ray Kassar for not negotiating better with Nintendo and getting them to sign on the dotted line.

[MegaManFan]

Kassar for just plain blowing it by getting in a snit about Donkey Kong.

[Brad2600]

'Ol Jackie boy is the one I don't like.

 

The rest of the Tramiels can suck on donkey kong's shit.

[2600Lives]

Agreed. When you badmouth your developers, the people who are working for peanuts and making it possible to buy that 4th house, you are in serious need of a good ol' fashioned country ass kicking. It would have been better if the whole of Atari just walked out on Tramiel rather than have him sully the name of Atari.