Why are there Atari games in the Midway Arcade T. Col.?

[digtempest]

I thought stuff like Rampart,Toobin', 720, were Atari games. Please educate me. I know Namco had Atari release Dig Dug, P. Position and other Namco game here in the USA. Did Midway and Atari had a similar deal, eventhough both were based in the USA.

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Howdy dig,

It's actually simpler than that. When Warner Bros. put Atari on the block in 1984, Jack Tramiel bought the company. Tramiel split the arcade division off and sold it to Midway, who kept the 'Atari Games' name going as a kind of 'imprint.' So those Atari Games coin-ops developed under Midway's umbrella, Midway still has the rights to and releases in its retro collections.

Hope this helps, and welcome to the boards! Feel free to introduce yourself in this thread if ya get the chance.

[SoulBlazer]

It was shut down?

There goes another aracade company......

Seriously, who makes games for the arcades these days? I think Capcom and Sega are it.

[digtempest]

Ok, so does Infogrames own all of the older Atari arcade games like Fire Truck, Kangaroo, Road Runner, Basketball, the X and O Football, etc...? Also if I already own the Midway Atari Greatest Hits 1 & 2 and the Arcade Party Pak for the PS1, is worth buying Midway Arcade T. for PS2?

[dethink]

It was shut down?

There goes another aracade company......

Seriously, who makes games for the arcades these days? I think Capcom and Sega are it.

sega (who is under the wing of sammy)
capcom
sammy (all future SNK/Playmore & ARC system releases are on the AtomisWave, which is pretty much based off/similar the Naomi architecture.)
konami (all the rhythm games)

does namco even make arcade games anymore?

so basically, that leaves sammy (since sega is under sammy, and capcom uses sega's hardware for a lot of titles) and konami...

[Lady Jaye]

It's worth getting Midway Arcade Treasures if only because it also includes great Williams and Bally Midway classics (such as Defender, Spy Hunter, Robotron 2084, etc.)...

Because you see, the entity now known as Midway is actually Atari Games, Bally/Midway and Williams Electronics all merged up. And even though it's now called Midway, it was actually Williams who swallowed up the other two.

And it is correct: the pre-split (pre-1984) Atari coin-up game rights belong to Infogrames (or if you prefer the current Atari).

[TheRedEye]

It was shut down?

There goes another aracade company......

Seriously, who makes games for the arcades these days? I think Capcom and Sega are it.

Yep, shut down, while Hydro Thunder 2 was in development by the original team.

[Ed Oscuro]

That settles it...all this time I thought Rampart was a Konami release! I was wondering about that last night.

[digtempest]

I thought Namco still make arcade games. Time Crisis 3 comes to mind as recent example.

[StartTheBiddingLow]

When Warner Bros. put Atari on the block in 1984, Jack Tramiel bought the company. Tramiel split the arcade division off and sold it to Midway, who kept the 'Atari Games' name going as a kind of 'imprint.'

OK, so after 1984 Atari Games made coin-ops and Atari made XL computers, etc.
So why does the arcade game Gauntlet bear '1985 Atari Games' in the corner of the screen but Gauntlet II has '1986 Atari'?
I notice the design/programming teams are mostly the same.

Edit: (waits a few days) OK, I'll start a new thread.