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From: ad329@james.hwcn.org (Chris Cracknell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit,comp.sys.atari.advocacy,comp.sys.atari.programmer,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari Has been Sold (100% Facts)
Date: 14 Mar 1998 18:02:27 -0500
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In article <350a64eb.118756143@news.abs.net>, 'remove'tim_k@post2.com (Tim K.) wrote:

>Face facts people. The Lynx, Jaguar, and ST were all better than their
>competition, yet all bombed. I got burnt a number of times by buying
>Atari. Don't get your hopes up for a new and improved anything with
>the Atari name.
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And the reason why those superior products fails rests largely on the
managerial and marketing incompetence of the Tramiels. They're the ones
who ran the company into the ground. Hasbro is the world's second largest
toy company so I'm willing to be they have the marketing and managerial
savy to redeem the name Atari.

Developers will be much more eager to make games for an Atari machine
under Hasbro than they ever would have been to make one for
Atari under the Tramiels.

Gee, if Hasbro does reserect Atari ther'll be a book called
"The rise and fall, and rise and fall, and rise of Atari" ;)

                                CRACKERS
                       (never say die from hell!!!!!)



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