Purchase of Intellivision Trademarks and Games Unites Competing Brands from the ‘70s and ‘80sPARIS and NEW YORK, May 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Atari® — one of the world's most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — announced today it has purchased the Intellivision brand and certain games from Intellivision Entertainment LLC. Intellivision Entertainment LLC will rebrand and continue its business of developing and distributing the Amico brand game console with a licen
  • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    69·
    5 months ago

    “Uniting Atari and Intellivision after 45 years ends the longest-running console war in history,”

    Sure, but they both lost the war long ago. This is just some archeologist coming along to display both their bones in a museum hoping to boost gift shop sales.

    • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.socialEnglish
      7·
      5 months ago

      Two of my favorite consoles of all time. If they could do an updated retro console based on the Intellivision II and allow playing Atari 2600 games without buying a separate adapter I would be in heaven.

      I have bins of games, but my controllers did not age 40+ years all that well. 😞

      • TexasDrunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        I cannot speak to Intelliviaion, but you can get 2600 replacement controllers. If you’ve still got them it’s also likely that you can get someone to repair them if the issue is the electronics.

        • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.socialEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          My Atari joystick still works, it’s more my Intellivision controllers. But having a nicer way to play on a modern TV with the original games with higher quality controllers would be amazing.

    • snownyte@kbin.social
      2·
      5 months ago

      Which is hilarious because they were both part of the reason the video game market crashed back then.