And which Atari are you referring to? .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari,_Inc

Hmm, if you're talking about the early '80s video game crash, there was no pressure needed. There was a glut on the market from all the Activision wannabees and little to no control over who released what on what platform compared with a couple years later under Nintendo.

It was hardly an Atari only problem. They were a huge market at the time, but when you're talking about barrels of unrelated games from various companies and anybody that's capable of programming combined with the cash to make it happen, blaming Atari is really missing the point.

I'm not blaming Atari, I'm just saying that their business MO was what people are complaining nowadays about Blizzard and EA. Pumping out below standard games with no regards to quality just to maximize profits.

I have no problem with Atari. But I also have no problem with EA.

I call out on double standards.

I don't know, that it's really a double standard. That happened 30 years ago and during a period in gaming history best forgotten because it was endemic to the industry. EA OTOH has been purposefully pushing some equally obnoxious policies rather further than where the rest of the industry has gone.

It'll be interesting if in 30 years we're still saying what we're saying about EA because I don't think people were saying that about Atari back then, at least not commonly. But, I was like 2 at the time so I don't really remember.

You mean Infogrames.

The Atari name covers too many different people, companies, and businesses. It's become incoherent as an identity. :/

I'd rather just celebrate the individual anniversaries of cool gaming stuff like the VCS, the Atari 800, or Gauntlet.

Atari has being dead for decades. Long live to Atari (in my MAME ROMS....)!