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From: tom@gcc-milo.ARPA (Tom Westberg)
Newsgroups: net.games.video
Subject: Re: Gauntlet (Atari, actually)
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Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 09:57:44 EST
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In article <1005@mit-eddie.UUCP> nathan@mit-eddie.UUCP (Nathan Glasser) writes:
>
>What makes you think that they are not the same Atari? Because of
>what you heard about Marble Madness? To the best of my knowledge
>there is only one Atari company.
>

The Atari which built Gauntlet and Marble Madness is named Atari Games.
The computer company which produces the 800 and the 520 ST is named
Atari Inc.

They USED to be the same company. When Jack Tramiel bought Atari he didn't
want to do games. He wanted to beat Commodore in home computers. He took the
computer and consumer games assets from Atari (owned by Warner Communications)
and left Warner the video game assets (which they renamed Atari Games).

There is probably some relationship at the companies' high levels (since
Warner still has some interest in both companies), but not much.

The old Atari would NEVER have supported a Commodore computer (with
Marble Madness) before their own.