Well technically no, because the real Atari went broke during the gaming crash. While the assets of Atari would then be divided to a new company that would also use the name and do videogames and consoles that company also eventually went under. If I'm not mistaken the current Atari is basically the publisher Infogrames who bought the rights years ago.
Regardless, all of Atari's burdens at this point are WITH Infogrames, still doing a fair bit of damage to that brand AFTER the NA crash.
This is not gonna be much better than it was under Tallarico. Considering Atari even via Infogrames still attached their name to poorly received licensed games (Enter the Matrix, various DBZ games not Budokai 3, more notiously Sagas and UB22) in Gen Six, to investing in NFTs and screwing up the VCS release.
It's amazing how Tommy Tallarico pretty much ruined his reputation with that fraud Amico console.
Yup... and though I didn't plan on buying it (nor did I donate... I never do unless it's a round-up at a store checkout), I WAS looking forward into how it turned out AT LEAST. Yet, from Pat the NES Punk (who kind of grifted off the matter in his own right) to left-wing YouTuber Harry "hbomberguy" Brewis, boy what a mess...
Even his buddy Victor Lucas (who I still follow) seemed lost during one E3 stream.
This is not gonna be much better than it was under Tallarico. Considering Atari even via Infogrames still attached their name to poorly received licensed games (Enter the Matrix, various DBZ games not Budokai 3, more notoriously Sagas and UB22) in Gen Six, to investing in NFTs and screwing up the VCS release.
This rumor was rooted when leaked FTC documents revealed MS wanted to try again in buying Nintendo, adding Valve in the mix, which ultimately revealed that the Activision buyout was NOT noble at all.
Also while I will never put the US intelligence services on a pedestal I'd like to think we've learned some lessons over the years, i.e. don't overthrow nations "cuz communism" and so on.
The CIA didn't overthrow regimes in the past simply because of communism. That was just an excuse. The real reason was to eliminate threats to American imperialism. Nothing has changed in that regard. The CIA still serves the same purpose today.
With that said, I doubt the CIA were directly involved in this incident. It's more likely to be either an accident or related to internal Iranian politics. It wouldn't really make sense for the CIA to make a martyr of him, as that would only be counter-productive to the CIA's goal of regime change in Iran.
I think that's why he air quoted and had the memematic misspelling of "because".
And this reception is going to be questioned as soon as Digital Foundry makes their video. Not because of one of them already expressing disappointment that the Switch version has lower framerate than the GCN version, but the internet's tendency to blow a DF video out of proportion, given DF's history of defending some games with uneven framerate.
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