Great Atari News!

Ask Peter Hirschberg what he thinks of this 'new strategy'.
 
Attention Atari:

Reopen your pinball division and let me run it.
I have a MBA from a top tier university , lemme at it!
 
Attention Atari:

Reopen your pinball division and let me run it.
I have a MBA from a top tier university , lemme at it!

I have thought about applying for an engineering job at Bally locally, but I would never be happy doing slot machines when I know they used to do Pins and arcade games. I would have a hard time not trying to get them to go back to that, and I imagine that wouldn't go over well.
 
Awesome! I was wondering what happened to Atari. I'm glad their getting back to the basics on a modern platform. Time to blow some dust off my Atari 2600!
 
Atari is a shell of nothingness. They also screw the little guy for having an app that looks remotely like atari used to make.
 
I didn't think there was anything left of the Atari we knew. It's just a name that has been whored out to half a dozen conglomerates.

It's the gaming equivalent of a Schwinn bike from Walmart.
 
Atari is a shell of nothingness. They also screw the little guy for having an app that looks remotely like atari used to make.

I agree Brett... However, Vector Tanks is a direct copy of Atari's trademarks and now that they are in the business of selling iOS and Android apps it's in their best interest to protect their trademarks.

This 100% sucks ... But, are we 100% sure that Atari didn't buy the code from Peter?
 
as pissed as he was, i'd say no. And a line drawing of a tank is no more atari's than me drawing a pizza and having pizza hut send me a C&D
 
ector Tanks is a direct copy of Atari's trademarks

That's a negative. Trademarks are litterally "marks" used to distinguish goods or services in the marketplace. Atari's marks include it's "logo" or the Atari symbol, and the name "Battlezone" when used in conjunction with "computer software, namely, interactive games, pre-recorded floppy and hard discs containing video games, pre-recorded video game programs, pre-recorded computer game programs, video game cartridges, and video game machines for use with televisions." It's serial number is 75350949, if you want to look it up on uspto.gov.

To my knowledge, "Vector Tanks" makes no use whatsoever of any of Atari's marks, registered or otherwise. Atari does not own the concept of a "tank game with simple green line graphics." Such basic concepts are not any protected type of intellectual property; as they are not marks (which can be trademarked), creative works (which can by copyrighted), nor an invention (which can be patented).

Peter's software sure looks in the clear to me, with respect to IP.
 
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what he just said. Yet the knee jerk reaction was to pull vector tanks from the app store. How about a giant FUCK YOU to big corporations.
 
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