Hard to say. Atari has been cannibalized so many times it's hard to recognize what's what anymore. Much of the IP was parted out and sold off.
As far as the company proper goes, the original Atari Inc from 1972 was broken up by Warner into two parts in 1984. The consumer division became Atari Corp, while the coin op division became Atari Games.
Atari Games was partially owned by Warner/Namco for a while, then JTS, Hasbro, was at Midway Games for a while, but now is back at Time Warner / Warner Bros. Games.
Atari Corp ended up at Infrogrames (IESA) in 2001ish. They bough up all public shares and took the company private in 2008. They then renamed IESA to Atari SA to better represent the brand. So IESA doesn't really exist anymore. It's all Atari SA now.
Good news is that since 2020/2021 Atari SA seems pretty focused on restoring the brand. For a long time they didn't release hardware and simply regurgitated/licensed old titles. But recently they've released new hardware/software again. Their focus seems to be around being a "retro gaming" company, old style gameplay on newer hardware. For example, there's this [1] and this [2]
Personally I'm excited that there seems to be an attempt to make Atari a "product company" again. They seem the most focused they've been since Jaguar. Who knows if it will pay off, but at least they're swinging.
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Hard to say. Atari has been cannibalized so many times it's hard to recognize what's what anymore. Much of the IP was parted out and sold off.
As far as the company proper goes, the original Atari Inc from 1972 was broken up by Warner into two parts in 1984. The consumer division became Atari Corp, while the coin op division became Atari Games.
Atari Games was partially owned by Warner/Namco for a while, then JTS, Hasbro, was at Midway Games for a while, but now is back at Time Warner / Warner Bros. Games.
Atari Corp ended up at Infrogrames (IESA) in 2001ish. They bough up all public shares and took the company private in 2008. They then renamed IESA to Atari SA to better represent the brand. So IESA doesn't really exist anymore. It's all Atari SA now.
Good news is that since 2020/2021 Atari SA seems pretty focused on restoring the brand. For a long time they didn't release hardware and simply regurgitated/licensed old titles. But recently they've released new hardware/software again. Their focus seems to be around being a "retro gaming" company, old style gameplay on newer hardware. For example, there's this [1] and this [2]
Personally I'm excited that there seems to be an attempt to make Atari a "product company" again. They seem the most focused they've been since Jaguar. Who knows if it will pay off, but at least they're swinging.
[1] https://atari.com/products/mr-run-and-jump [2] https://atari.com/products/mr-run-and-jump-2600
Thanks, that's very helpful!