"The Atari x Activision Collaboration Celebrates Our Connected History" - Atari Reveals Its Big Announcement

Here's hoping for an Activision collection for Atari 50

I hope the announcement lives up to the hype. I really hate these announcements of an announcement... But I'm a big fan of current Atari and what they've been doing, hope it's something cool.

Maybe it's another Atari shaped Blade Runner-esque hotel, just what we all need.

I hope it's an FPGA recreation of the Atari 800XL so that it can find a new home next to my Commodore 64 Ultimate.

We’ll hear it second here won’t we??!
I’m fine with that.

My hope is that it's some sort of evercade esque device/collection.

@SpinEnDash Atari has literally been dead for nearly half a century now. I wouldn't dare bet on that lmao.

Imagine if Atari took the reins on Microsoft's Xbox console business.

It's a good time to step in and promise physical media.

Wade now seeking the title of "Vauge Posting King"

I believe with what I heve learned & heard so far that this may be Atari & Strictly Limited reviving the 'Mr Nutz' franchise, as least Strictly Limited tweeted this out yesterday and said its coming today along with Atari. So we shall see. I explain this in my last 2 newslines which aired last night..

https://rumble.com/v7eesls-atari-newsline-484-ataris-big-mystery-cracked-is-ataris-big-announcement-mr.html?e9s=src_v1_upp_f

Looking forward to seeing whatever it is.

@ballistikcoffeeboy I hope it's not just this, that would be lame and not the biggest announcement!

I hear you Andy... And not that u are but dont shoot the messenger I know this is being announced today due to Strictly saying it was on Twitter yesterday, that its coming today, so we shall see! games AND hardware would be nice imho

Announcement of an announcement… no thanks.

Unless they're announcing another Ataribox, I really don't care.

Atari holds the world record for bankruptcies due to all the terrible management it's done, and somehow some naive soul always seems to come along and try to salvage its reputation (personally, I'd salvage the names of Jaleco, Technos, or Data East if I had the money, but never Atari's). And every time they theoretically start doing things right, they end up screwing it up when they try to "reinvent" or "improve" themselves.

The only way Atari could surprise me would be through Night Dive Studios, but Atari alone is in no way capable of surprising me with the announcement of a console nobody asked for, or with unnecessary remakes of Pong, Asteroids, Centipede, Missile Command, Yars, Breakout, etc. I wouldn't even be surprised if they announced adaptations of the games they bought from Ubisoft, like Child of Eden, Cold Fear, Grow Home, Grow Up, and I Am Alive.

It will be interesting to see what it is.

@ballistikcoffeeboy That could be cool.

@Ruka Looking at their output in recent years I would argue against that. 🤔

It's a plastic case molded to fit about a dozen Atari cartridges.

@SecretSeashell I read this as COMPLETELY literal.

"something big"
"game changer"
"We have a vision for your game shelf"

It will be some kind of multi-cart living room thing to hook-up to your 2600+ and let you choose games. It will be massive, wood paneled, and it will be Atari's "jump the shark" moment with their old fans who have been waiting for something actually significant, only to have them snickering over their own jokey word play.

Maybe they are going to be a boutique physical media publisher. If they work for the publishers and only publish on an as needed basis. It could be a good gamble for them.

Though it is doubtful, maybe Atari fully merged Playmaji into their company. It would be beneficial for those of us waiting for our Polymega Atari modules.

I would really like a better way to play the Midway games than the 360 collection I have.

Well I’m definitely curious but meanwhile where the heck is the new batch of 7800 games?

The current Atari reminds me an awful lot of the Tramiel era Atari i grew up with, announcements coming thick and fast in an attempt to grab headlines, maintain a presence etc.

Which is fine as long as the finished products appear and live upto expectations.

The running joke with Tramiel Atari was why buy an Atari product today, when they will only annouce a newer, more powerful one, tommorrow.

@roguetrooper That's an extremely thin line to tread, as soon as the press catches on to what you're doing, they'll either blacklist you at best, or completely turn on you.

"We have a vision for your game shelf"

A Colecovision console?

My out there hope: Atari has acquired the rights to Secret of Evermore, is rereleasing an enhanced port of it that also includes the original, and is working on a sequel.

What it probably is: Jaguar Mini.

What will it be, been waiting on some actual atari news for a while, not the usual news about games they publish for modern platforms

They're certainly setting expectations quite high to promise one of the biggest announcements ever from a legendary company like Atari.

The problem with something like Centipede is Atari, when reinventing the back story for the home versions, didn't even stick to 1 character. You had Oliver The Elf and his spark firing magic wand on the 2600 version for example, but Lord Motley Bugnuts for the Atari 400/800 version.

If your going to use the flimsy back stories for the basis of a film adaptation, which do you go for?

I was dismissive when this latest incarnation of Atari emerged as they have tried multiple times to rise from the heap. I can say, in my opinion, they have done a decent job carving out a distinct and promising path. I do not think reissued OG Atari games will be enough to sustain them as most of these were not that great to begin with. I do respect the retro culture they have embraced but they need to make bolder moves either in software or decent hardware and not rely on branded items. So far it has been uhh lackluster but hopeful. This “announcement” could certainly be a bad idea if it really is not “big” .

@roguetrooper The only was I see the movies working is if it uses something like the Adam Sandler “Pixels”. There is certainly no storyline I see that could hold my interest.

From an interview "There's a new, 'old' platform / console coming next year. It's more powerful than NEO-GEO AES+" The Atari Jaguar certainly meets the criteria of being both "Big" and more powerful than a Neo Geo and given PLAION's history already with the Atari 2600 it makes sense.