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That is not quite accurate, and the Marble Madness page was also in error on this point until I just corrected it. The confusion, as is often the case with corporate shenanigans, is that there were two companies named Atari Games in this time period. After the sale of the consumer business to Jack Tramiel, Atari, Inc. was renamed Atari Games, Inc. Exact same company, just a name change. In February 1985, Warner sold the coin-operated games division of Atari Games, Inc. to Namco, which created a new subsidiary the month before called AT Games, Inc. to absorb these assets. After the purchase, AT Games was renamed Atari Games Corporation, and Atari Games, Inc. became Atari Holdings, Inc. So, in short every arcade game developed before February 1985 was developed by Atari, Inc., not Atari Games Corporation. Indrian (talk) 17:41, 16 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
How technical do we get with corporate shenanigans? It seems we currently consider Atari Games under Namco and Warner separate companies mostly because they were separate corporations, despite having the same business (Atari Holdings being a shell corporation). However, we do not apply the same measure to Atari, Inc. before and after Warner's purchase. The old Atari, Inc. (California 0654542) was merged into WCI Games Inc. (Delaware 827117) on 4 October 1976. Atari, Inc. ceased to exist and WCI Games Inc. was renamed Atari, Inc. as part of the merger agreement. The California "bizfile Online" service has the merger filing for the state. Michael Current's lengthy history seems to be the only somewhat reputable secondary source for this on the web at the moment. IceWelder [✉] 19:39, 17 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
An excellent question for sure, and one I have grappled with as well. I am aware that technically the Warner Atari was a different company from the independent company, but this seems a minor distinction not worth splitting articles over since the new company just engulfed the entirety of independent Atari and its assets consisted only of independent Atari. This situation is different though. Atari, Inc. to Atari Games, Inc. was only a name change. No shuffling of assets, no change in corporate overlord, no reincorporation, just a name change. Atari Games Corporation does not exist until 1985. The asset sale that created Atari Games Corp. is no different from the consumer asset sale that transformed Tramel Technology, Ltd. into Atari Corporation. Indrian (talk) 20:53, 17 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Who's Gordon?
In the section Early arcade and home games (1973–1976) it suddenly starts talking about a person called Gordon who isn't mentioned anywhere else in the article. There's no explanation of who he is. keypunch (talk) 18:52, 29 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
