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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Path: sparky!uunet!infonode!drudetb
- From: drudetb@infonode.ingr.com (Ted B. Drude)
- Subject: Re: Atari corp.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.014323.29905@infonode.ingr.com>
- Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
- References: <9208252017.AA02762@brachot.jct.ac.il>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 01:43:23 GMT
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- In article <9208252017.AA02762@brachot.jct.ac.il> bruck@BRACHOT.JCT.AC.IL (Itay Chamie1) writes:
- >A local newspaper sez Atari is in deeep trouble..
- >It says that Atari is going to produce a new video game system (Jaguar??)
- >but that Atari just wouldn't have the required $40 million to launch it..
- >It also says that Jack Tramiel is a scrooge and that he never spent a buck
- >on advertising - a primary reason for the fact that the Lynx takes aprox.
- >3% of the pocket-game market (with the rest taken by Nintendo and Sega)..
- >Just want opinions on this... start a discussion etc.
-
- Well this really isn't any big news. Atari has been in deeep financial
- trouble for years and I don't think Jack Tramiel ever spent $40 million
- on advertising in his entire lifetime. As for the Jaguar, judging by
- the time it took them to launch the Falcon, we probably won't see any in
- the US until late '93. When they show up in Europe/elsewhere is anyone's
- guess. Only diehard Atari fans will care anyway, and it seems that's
- enough as far as Tramiel's are concerned. When a story like this runs in
- the US (as one did recently in Forbes Magazine) the rest of the
- computing world is usually surprized to find out that Atari still exists
- at all!
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- - Ted
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