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The Atari VCS, what on earth is going on there?

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The Atari VCS, what on earth is going on there? To say Atari have fallen from grace is one of the biggest understatements to be made in the gaming industry. In fact Atari today isn’t even really Atari, just a mask with a moustache worn by someone else and not really the legend of old. The original company went bankrupt and has had its name and IP sold and traded more times then the world has had economic collapses. Once one of the biggest names in gaming, and probably the main company that got so many kids hooked into the hobby back in the 80s, it’s now very much a shadow of a shadow of a shadow puppet of it’s one mighty self. Nowadays their real name is Atari SA and even then that comes as a rebranding of the Atari names current French owners, Infogrames Entertainment SA. And let's not even go into the number of different companies that have had a claim on the name of Atari. And the most recent news about it’s plan to make a comeback? Well, it’s not good. As part of Ataris planne