Seriously WTF? Atari has now gone out and attacked fans who have had websites up for years, YEARS! Atari2600.org now is left with a single text message from it’s owner:
“Following a ‘request’ from Atari Legal’s lawyer to hand them this domain, and to show my good faith and intentions with regard to their trademark and claims thereof… I have removed all content of this site.
I’m a bit of a retro-gaming nut. Over the 11 years I’ve ‘owned’ this domain, the site was used as a personal/hobbyist site for my interest in ‘2600 homebrew programming. It’s variously been used to promote my ‘2600 game Qb (2001-2003), my extensive tutorials on ‘2600 programming, as a domain for the ‘2600 programmers’ [stella] mailing list (2004-2010) and more recently linking to some of my videos and demos for the platform. The ‘2600 platform has been near and dear to my heart for a long time.
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Seems like the worst thing a company can do, especially one that almost relies on nostalgia to keep it going. When was the last time you even bought something because of the Atari name? If anything I’m going to guess the Atari Flashback consoles and even that was few and far between. First the whole GameStop debacle and now this, what the hell is going on?
Source Link: gameinformer
