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From: Laurent FAVARD <l.favard@france2.fr>
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Subject: Atari aurait ete vendu...
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:02:26 +0100
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je viens de recevoir ce message....

ATARI SOLD TO HASBRO

Hasbor has officially purchaced all the rights to Atari.  The deal was
made on
Febuary 28, 1998 "consisting primarily of Atari home computer games and
the
intellectual property rights and license agreements associated with such

games."  This means that Hasbro owns all of Atari.  It's unknown what
Hasbro
plans to do with Atari, but one source stated on JI exactly "HASBRO WAS
INTERESTED IN THE ATARI NAME FOR A NEW VIDEO GAME CONSOLE SET TO COME
OUT IN
TIME FOR THE 1998 CHRISTMAS SEASON. SAID HUGH LAMBERT, VICE PRESIDENT
FOR
HASBRO "WE'RE GOING AFTER A RETRO-SORT OF MARKET. OUR SYSTEM IS BASED ON
A
68040 MICROPOCESSOR FROM MOTOROLA, AND IS BASICALLY ABOUT AS POWERFUL AS
ANY
OF THE CURRENT CROP OF SYSTEMS. HOWEVER, WE WERE INTERESTED IN THE ATARI
NAME
BECAUSE WE PLAN ON RELASING MANY OF THE SAME GAMES PEOPLE GREW UP WITH
ON
THEIR 2600S."  I have not yet been abel to confirm this statment, but I
havn't
seen anything contridicting it either.  Hasbro owns all rights to Atari,

including the Jaguar and the Lynx, so we may possibly see more games for
these
systems in the future, but it is doughtful as they could possibly
release a
newer and better system.  Things are really starting to look up for
Atari, and
there will be much more news to report on in the coming weeks.  I will
keep
you all fully up to date as new infoemation becomes available.

-Brian
-The AtariNews E-mail List
-http://www.geocities.com/timessquare/arcade/8063


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