On Twitter, Atari shared the news in this way: “We acquired the Intellivision brand and game library. “This was a very rare opportunity to unite former competitors and bring together fans of the ...

Atari and Intellivision launched dueling consoles, the Atari 2600, and Intellivision. Intellivision was developed by Mattel Electronics and introduced to the world in 1979. It took a while, but Atari ...

Two classic game companies have united under one roof as Atari has acquired the Intellivision Entertainment brand, though left its disastrous Amico console behind. That's because Atari hasn't acquired ...

Atari has announced it has acquired its former competitor from the ’70s and ’80s, ending what it says was the first-ever console war. Atari has announced it has acquired its former competitor from the ...

Atari buys the brand and the rights to numerous Intellivision games, bringing an end to what some consider to be the first console war. An old-school video game rivalry has a new chapter with Atari ...

Atari finally won the oldest console war of all recently--even though most of us thought it ended decades ago. The company announced that it bought the Intellivision brand, best-known for being one of ...

Jack Peachey is a features writer who's worked at Dualshockers and Game Rant. An animation nerd, his favourite games don't have a genre in common as much as they all have pretty pictures. When not ...

In a move that ends one of the video game industry’s oldest rivalries, Atari announced on Thursday that it has purchased parts of Intellivision Entertainment for an undisclosed sum. “Uniting Atari and ...

The big picture: Despite being just shadows of their former selves, the Atari and Intellivision brands are still on the market almost 50 years after their original introduction. Atari has now acquired ...

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You might not recognize some of the names. For example, what is Astroblast? Is that like Astrosmash? Well, a lot of games got different names when Mattel ported them over. Thankfully, the Atari M ...