Lamest boot screen EVER.

[Kitsunexus]

Yes the Atari Jaguar sucked, but Atari is far from defeated. Even though Atari has not released another system since the Jaguar, Atari has been getting a little help from high places technology wise. I learned after the Jaguar failed markets worldwide, the U.S. military bought the company. That's were they are getting help and that's where the mystery pops in.

Not true. The company merged with a disk drive manufacturer who had no interest in their gaming properties, these properties were sold to Infogrames.

The unsold stock of Jaguars were shipped to companies who used them in kiddie rides like Skycopter II, and the case molds were sold to a company that makes cameras for dentists (it's unbelievable, I wish I could find that site that had the picture).

BTW, if any of you have the Reservoir Dogs 10 year DVD, pop in the widescreen disc, go to deleted scenes and watch the scene "Background Check". The female police officer is using an Atari ST. 

[FM-77]

The Atari name's still tormenting us with awful game releases... or at least they have been. I think they finally went bankrupt or something, but I might be confusing things.

[Kitsunexus]

The Atari name's still tormenting us with awful game releases... or at least they have been. I think they finally went bankrupt or something, but I might be confusing things.

See above, they went bankrupt, merged with a disk drive manufacturer, and sold the Atari name and game licenses to Infogrames.

[FM-77]

Yeah exactly. That's why I said Atari name. Infogrames, a company that has never made or published a good game, put the Atari name on their lame productions. Ban Infogrames.

[Joe Redifer]

I used to have a job as a game tester and one of the games was a PC military simulator designed to train soldiers over yonder in that Iraq place.  It was designed to keep them on the look out for IEDs and whatnot.  It had nothing to do with Atari.  I truly hated that job.  Here are two screenshots I swiped and e-mailed to myself (a big no-no) of that game:

[FM-77]

Is that game ancient? It looks ancient.

...I hate football too.

[Kitsunexus]

What engine is that, Operation Flashpoint?

[kenomac78]

yea what you talking about?  atari wasnt bought by the govt!  they got sold to JTS who literally threw out age of atari history in the dumpster then went under, scooped up by hasbro, wo made those 3d pong remakes. then sold off to infogrames who i think is doing OK with the name and at least keeping atari in the social consciousness by putting out flashback 1 and 2. its better than letting it totally dissapear.

the one good ting is the rights to develop jaguar games is now open to the  public!

and the govt was interest in atari after battlezone

[Joe Redifer]

Is that game ancient? It looks ancient.

It felt ancient.  I have no idea what engine it ran on.  Probably Unreal 6 or something old and shitty like that.  But this is the US Government.  The budget was/is extremely low for troop training.  Actually "Flashpoint" does sound familiar.  I hate PC games with a passion so I'm not sure. 

[Kitsunexus]

Yeah, I've looked it up. It isn't Operation Flashpoint, that game looks too nice, and was also probably to expensive to liscense.

No, it's actually the original Quake engine that's source was GPL'd so those Army bastards wouldn't have to spend any money.

[Joe Redifer]

No, it wasn't Quake.  Flashpoint sounds much more familiar.

[Kitsunexus]

No, it wasn't Quake.  Flashpoint sounds much more familiar.

Operation Flashpoint WAS liscensed by the Army at one point, but it looks SO much nicer than those shots, hell even Novalogic's special edition Delta Force looks nicer than that!

There was a Quake 1 army sim developed, look it up, it looks REMARKABLY similar.

[Hobo Xiphas]

I doubt that a Quake 1 era army simulation would involve IEDs.

[terrormask]

The Atari name's still tormenting us with awful game releases... or at least they have been. I think they finally went bankrupt or something, but I might be confusing things.

See above, they went bankrupt, merged with a disk drive manufacturer, and sold the Atari name and game licenses to Infogrames.

The Atari company was made of 2 parts: Atari corps., and Atari games. The military bought off the main hardware manufacturing part of Atari which was Atari corps. Atari games was sold to Infogrames.

[Kitsunexus]

The Atari company was made of 2 parts: Atari corps., and Atari games. The military bought off the main hardware manufacturing part of Atari which was Atari corps.

http://www.scripophily.net/atcorstocmad.html

In 1996, the company announced that it was starting a new business called Atari Interactive to make and distribute games for personal computers. The video-game pioneer intended to draw heavily on its library of 1980s-vintage video games, such as Asteroids and Pac Man; remaking them with 3-dimensional graphics and stereo sound to capitalize on the latest generation of high-powered PCs. The company merged with JTS Corporation that same year. Following the merger, Atari functioned as a division of JTS until its purchase by Hasbro in March 1998.


Wherever you heard that they merged with the military, that is a LIE. JTS Corp. is NOT a military owned company, it is a simple disk drive manufacturer from San Jose, CA.