Atari announced on Thursday that it had acquired the rights to games and branding from its old rival, Intellivsion.
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 Intellivision after 45 years ends the longest-running console war in history,” said Digital Eclipse head Mike Mika. (Digital Eclipse is owned by Atari.)
The deal means Atari now owns the rights to more than 200 Intellivision titles, along with the branding. It’ll be working on ways to distribute the games and might possibly develop new ones. Atari won’t be completely acquiring the other company though. An Atari press release says that the company currently known as Intellivision will rebrand and continue work on the Intellivision Amico — a console that was announced in 2018 and still hasn’t been released, but sort of exists as an app in beta on iOS and Android.
