Atari is Making a New Retro-Style Home Console
Atari was once the most dominant force in the gaming industry. Thanks to the video game crash of 1983, Atari was reduced to being a shell of its former self. Nearly 20 years after the release of the ill-fated Atari Jaguar, gaming’s first giant is poised for a comeback.
Atari CEO Fred Chesnais said in an interview with GamesBeat last week, and it is teasing a new product.
Details are extremely scarce—Chesnais says only that "We're back in the hardware business"—but he hinted that the new machine will be based on PC hardware.
A YouTube video posted earlier this month to a teaser website suggests that the new product will be called the AtariBox, and have wood paneling akin to the original Atari Video Computer System. But it leaves fans guessing as to the rest of the details, with little more than an offer to subscribe for email updates.