http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Schlussverkauf-bei-Atari-1868325.html

This is as much "Atari's Burial" as the bankruptcies of all "Commodore" trademark owners who came after 1994 were "Commodore's Burials".

Yep, Atari in name only.
That ship sailed years ago.
You could probably make more selling Atari logo'd clothing then trying to sell those games.

There are plenty of big big names that are nowadays dead an buried. That's just how things go. However, Atari will always be famous for being the biggest among the firsts. Which is more than Commodore got even though they deserve a whole lot more credit for being biggest among the first in the personal computer market.

Yeah, but the 2600 was SO awful.
And I hate that when I use an 8bit Atari computer (which I still occasionally do) its graphics processor steals cycles from the CPU.
Yeah, collision detection, sprites (missiles, I believe, in Atari's world), very neat the way you could change the palette every scan line, all pretty neat for the time.
But to top it off, and this might bug some of your Commodore oriented guys, but I never really liked the 6502.

@Jim

Yep, things are a whole lot better now all and all (except that the OS Big 3 are not my personal cup of tea) but the downside is that the challenge is long gone. Remember the good old days when people tried to push the most out of ones computer? Today there's really no point.

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still it was a very impressive CPU at the time, especially for a retail price of 25$ (most competitors were about 75/100$). And it inspired the ARM family of CPUs which are widely used now, so it's legacy is still very alive : )

[ Edited by SoundSquare 25.05.2013 - 00:41 ]