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  • The original company is not.

    On February 13, 1996, Atari agreed to merge with JTS Inc., a short-lived maker of hard disk drives, in a reverse takeover to form JTS Corporation.[4][2] The reverse merger was completed on July 30, 1996.[1] Atari’s role in the new company largely became a holder for most of its properties. Most of Atari’s staff members were either dismissed or resigned, and its Atari Interactive division was quickly shut down,[27] with the remainder of its employees being relocated to JTS’s headquarters.[5][28] Consequently, the Atari name almost vanished from the consumer market.

    On March 13, 1998, JTS Corporation sold the Atari name and assets to Hasbro Interactive for $5 million,[3] less than a fifth of what Warner Communications had paid 22 years earlier. The transaction primarily involved the brand and intellectual property rights, which Hasbro Interactive largely used as a brand name for retro game releases.[a][b]

    On January 29, 2001, Hasbro Interactive was sold to Infogrames,[31] which renamed it Infogrames Interactive and then the Atari Interactive name in 2003. The present day Atari Interactive, through Atari SA, continues to hold and license all Atari trademarks as well as produce many new games, some based on Atari’s original properties, to this day.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Corporation






  • It’s weird they are touting their sign up process.

    I tried to sign up on Beehaw multiple times on multiple days and could never complete the process despite manually typing out answers to their inane questions several times. Some of the times it would just time out. When it would go through, I’d never get a response on my account.

    So I ended up on lemmy.world.

    And let’s be honest, it’s not like ChatGPT couldn’t generate responses to those questions. In a certain sense, maybe them self-quarentining is a good thing for this and other reasons. I guess that’s also part of the point of federation vs a single entity in control of everything.