Atari buys over 100 retro titles from the ’80s and ’90s like Bubsy, Hardball, and Demolition Racer

21 Apr. (Portaltic/EP) –

Atari has bought the licenses of more than a hundred retro games from the publishers Microprose, Infogrames and Accolade, which were released in the 1980s and 1990s, including well-known titles such as Bubsy, Hardball and Demolition Racer, to create new games based on them.

The American video game publisher intends to increase the digital and physical distribution of classic video games, including several titles that in the beginning were part of the Atari historywith a view to expanding its brand in this sector.

In this sense, the company has announced an increase in its collection of games thanks to the acquisition of more than one hundred titles from publishers Accolade, Infogrames and Microprose. Likewise, it has also indicated that the Accolade brandnow go to join Atari.

Among the video games acquired, which include “innovative and award-winning” titles, stand out the popular series of Bubsy, Hardball and Demolition Racer. Likewise, air combat titles such as 1942: Pacific Air War, F-117A and F-14.

Within this framework, as the company has explained in a releasethe intention of this purchase is to find the expansion of the distribution of these video games both in physical and digital format, bringing them closer to computers and consoles.

Atari has also indicated that it intends to create new games based on the intellectual property of these titles, that is, carry out ‘remakes’ or new video games based on the originals. In this regard, the company has indicated that it plans to explore brand collaborations and ‘merchandising’.

As stated by the Atari CEO Wade Rosen some of the titles acquired they were already owned by the publisher and, now, “many of the fans” can expect to see them re-released in physical and digital formats, “even adapted to modern consoles”.

With all this, Atari advances in its plans to transform the company and the video game market, as detailed, reinventing old classics, reimagining stories and developing entirely new narratives “inspired by the games that set the course for an entire industry”.