u/Mr_JPF

A lot of people still see Atari as a failed brand from a bygone era, and to be honest from 2013 (bankruptcy) up until 2021 you wouldn't be wrong in making this assertion.

However since then the company has successfully managed to rebuilt itself from the ashes, thanks in large part due to the leadership of current CEO Wade Rosen .

Here's a brief overview of everything that has occurred since Wade began his tenure at Atari ( in chronological order ) :

2021

- Wade became CEO and immediately moved the company away from all of it's previous projects not related to gaming (Atari Token crypto currency, Atari hotels, online casinos etc). Atari vowed to return to making premium games on PC and consoles aka go back to making real video games instead of free to play slop on mobile.

- Atari released the Atari VCS console and created the Atari Recharged line of games

- Invested 500k $ in Antstream ( Retro game subscription service )

2022

- Atari purchased Moby games ( the IMDb of video games ) for 1.5 million dollars.

- Released the incredible Atari 50 collection

2023

- Atari purchased Night Dive studios for 20 million $

- Acquired Atari Age for an undisclosed amount

- Acquired over a 100 PC and console games from the 80s and 90s, including Bubsy and Hardball

- Purchased Digital Eclipse for 30 million $

- Invested in Polymega ( 49% stake in the company )

- Created the Atari + line of consoles in partnership with Plaion, and released the 2600+ in the same year

2024

- Bought the rights to Transport Tycoon

- Bought the rights to Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 from Frontier Developments

- Acquired the Intellivision brand and all it's IPs

- Released the Atari 400 mini

- Released the 7800+

2025

- Acquired Thunderful ( the owners of Steam World, Viewfinder, Replaced etc )

- Acquired 5 IPs from Ubisoft ( including Cold Fear and Child of Eden )

- Released the Atari Gamestation GO

- Released the Intellivision Sprint

2026 ( so far )

- Acquired Implicit Conversions (emulation studio known for bringing PS1 and PS2 titles to the PS Plus classics collection)

- Acquired the rights to the first 5 Wizardry games and the universe they take place in "The Llylgamyn Saga"

So yeah a lot has happened to Atari during these last 5 years , they went from one of the biggest laughing stocks in the industry to the most dominant player in the retro gaming market, and a respectable AA publisher. Overall current Atari is the best version of the company since the early 2000s, and hopefully things will only get better from here on out.

The amount of high quality games Atari was publishing during this time was staggering, they were unquestionably one of the most prolific publishers in the industry during the early to mid 2000s . Sure Atari wasn't involved in the development of new hardware during this period ( besides the Atari Flashback 2 ) but the games were so good that it didn't really matter .

Just to give you an idea of how great Atari was back then , they published games such as :

- The Dragon Ball Budokai games

- The Dragon Ball Tenkaichi games

- The Beyblade games on GBA

- Lucky Luke on GBA

- Enter the Matrix

- Driver 3

- Roller Coaster Tycoon 3

- Neverwinter Nights

- Witcher 1 ( no that's not a joke Atari published the first Witcher game )

- Alone in the Dark New Nightmare ( one of the best survival horror games ever made

- Alone in the Dark 2008 reboot

- Ikaruga

- V- Rally 3

- Test Drive Unlimited

- Godzilla Unleashed ( yes I liked it, never understood why critics hated it so much )

etc

It's good to see Atari doing well these days, which is in large part thanks to Wade Rosen's leadership ( especially when you consider how disastrous the mid to late 2010s were for Atari). But overall i still think that modern Atari has some work to do in order to get back to the greatness that was the 2000s Atari, the System Shock Remake and Replaced is exactly the kind of stuff we need to see more from them going forward, at least imo.

Bro I have an RTX 5060 and an Intel I5+ 12400F, and yet I can only run Postal 4 at medium settings or else the game starts lagging non-stop.

Graphically the game is more or less on par with Half Life 2 ( or CS 2 being very generous ), so I don't get why it's so difficult to run this game without spending half an hour messing with the settings.

Caleb was formerly a servant of Tchernobog, the leader of the Cabal Cult, until he was betrayed by his former master . When he served the Cabal Cult he was undoubtedly an evil man who had no qualms about committing torture , mass murder amongst other atrocities, in order to spread the influence of the cult worldwide.

But after being betrayed by Tchernobog Caleb went full Rambo on the entire cult, killing all his previous allies and eventually slaying Tchernobog himself. Couldn't it be argued that his actions post betrayal ultimately benefited the world and made up for many of the sins he committed in his past life ( similar to a character like Vegeta from Dragon Ball ) ?