I can’t believe you only have 15k. You have so much content and goes in decent depth in each video. You go into so much detail over the course of all the videos around a certain subject that you cover all bases. I am huge into this subject of hardware, history and gaming. So I do know a lot of these subjects, I like to think so anyway lol. Every so often I actually learn something from your videos, so that tells me you do your research. You do hard work and great work. That’s why I’m surprised you aren’t making at least a 100k subs video at this point. Thank you for all you do, all your effort. In my opinion you have very few rivals in the caliber and diversity of content you create. Many may make videos on the same subject but your quality far surpasses 99 percent of them on UA-cam. Again it’s just my opinion but I watch a lot of channels like yours and I can count on 1 hand how many do as good as job as you. Congrats and I am waiting for the day of the 1 million sub video because if anyone appreciated this subject as much as I do, when they find you, they will sub and flock to this channel.
Congrats on the 15k dude! It should be a lot more, as I find your deep dives into the historical aspects to be the best on UA-cam. Keep up the great work!
Congratulations on the 15K subs! Like others in the comments have said, you should have over 100K based on how great your content is. You are a veritable fount of knowledge on all things retro gaming. Informative take on the idea of Atari buying ColecoVision. I was also thinking they should buy them next. I would just love to see a ColecoVision+ as the original console is notorious for being very unreliable (I've never owned one myself). I also strongly agree with your argument that Atari should acquire Atari Games & bring all those great Atari arcade games back under their umbrella! This should be their top priority when it comes to acquiring IP - I've been wishing this for years. Some other big Atari Games IP you didn't mention is Rampart, the SanFrancisco Rush games, Area 51 & its sequel, Maximum Force (published these last 3). I would also love to see a video of your take on The400 Mini.
1) Congrats on 15K! 2) May as well get Coleco next, have the "Big 3" of the classic era consoles under one roof! I didn't know they sold off Magnavox. That's a shame, while Intellivision may have been itvs biggest rival, Odyssey i would consider Atari's "original" rival. Imagic is a definite acquisition they need to make. The own M Network (I believe they owned it BEFORE, but they definitely own it now) They'll never get Activision though. But they should definitely try to work out a licensing agreement.
During the 90's, my teenager life was WCW and SEGA. So, listening to you mentioning the WCW purchase and an (hipotetical) SEGA purchase, almost gave me a panic attack. Congratulations on the 15000 subscribers!
@@TheLairdsLairThat might not be the case. Apparently, Activision only got some licenses back in the early 2000s for their Anthology releases, that also included some homebrews for the GBA version.
Activision re-released all the Imagic games in PAL regions during the late 80s, they all have a Activision copyright on them. I was also told by Rob Fulop that Activision own them.
Congrats on the 15k but I swear I saw videos of yours about 2 years ago and you had 12k then? Have things slowed down a lot? I am a big fan of gamer channels like Guru Larry and Kim Justice plus the niche smaller ones like yours so keep it up! Here's to 16k next year dude!
I had an old channel that I lost due to copyright strikes and that was on 17k when it was taken down, but that was a lot longer than 2 years ago as I started this new one in Feb 2020.
Not going to lie it's hard to name a specific label as a lot of the smaller publishing companies of the era have been bought and re-bought multiple times over the years so hard to pinpoint who owns what on surface level. Would like to see them acquire the old Synapse Software and Broderbund catalogues as there are a lot of great computer games there, again these companies have been bought and sold a few times though. If they could afford it acquiring and Carmen Sandiego license would be a fun nostalgia throwback to release more fitting detective games in the series.
@@TheLairdsLair Ah, I did a look into Broderbund quickly and it stopped around a Mattel subsidiary so it was clear this would be difficult to do. Ubisoft being the end boss though makes it clear it would be impossible.
I wrote for them for over 7 years and did over 50 articles including 3 covers, I enjoyed it but the lack of creative control was very very frustrating and the pay wasn't great either.
Finally! A youtuber with a common sense. I’ve been answering some comments on other videos on this Intellivision thing with the exact same points you just said and nobody listened. Would you believe I even found someone who still believes the Amico was a good idea from the start? I hope they do listen to you because seeing the same “I hope the buy Coleco“ crap is tiresome.
@@Tolbat You are thinking of Atari Games. All the games created by Atari Games and their Tengen ports are owned by WBD. The arcade games prior to the split stayed in Atari Corp, therefore, its successor still owns them... except for that one game they thought it was a good idea to sell.
@@TheLairdsLair Interesting, I was wondering how Battlezone appeared on the The400 Mini. Thanks for the confirmation on that. Do you happen to know why Star Raiders wasn't on there? I know SR II was, but the first Star Raiders was one of the biggest games on the Atari 8-bit computers.
Well done! I like your videos because theyre like talking to a good friend who knows more about video gaming than you do. I think, for the future, how about your top ten for each genre or your favourite genres? Its something i know i would watch, im sure others would too.
@@TheLairdsLair youre welcome. Youre videos are very well researched 🙂. Im glad you like the idea. I enjoy particular genres and i think its good to see what other people enjoy and if theres anything that passed you by or to keep an eye out for.
Taito is still quite big in Japan. Like Konami, video games are but one of their businesses, maybe SquareEnix saw in Taito a way to expand their IPs in other media. It’s very likely they are spun off and stay on their business as usual. It wasn’t the Eidos/Cristal Dynamics situation.
As for what they should, or rather said could acquire, is really hard to tell. Of course, we can and must rule out the analogy created by this purchase: to acquire the competition from that time. RCA Studio II, I think it’s gone into PD, even the RCA brand nearly went into PD until some Chinese bought the abandoned brand, so there’s a no in that part and a big no on the library part. Seriously. Why would anyone want a bunch of generic primitive titles. The Channel F, I think some are owned by their authors, some by Zircon (apparently still exist), but, again, why to go to the hurdle of buying generic early games?, how much can the historical meaning be milked for profit? The Vectrex (which might include the Microvision) has a huge problem: everything has been released for non-profit use. I’m not an American lawyer, but I think violating that kind of licensing can lead to legal problems. With the Astrocade, we actually have all the problems of the above. Some games have been freed by their creators, like Jamie Fenton, others are still held by Bally and/or WB Games (whether they know they have them or not) and the rest are pretty much unlicensed blatant clones of games owned by multiple parties. So, no, too much trouble for Atari’s legal department. That includes the copyright nightmare that GORF is, so, STOP ASKING FOR IT! Then we get the competition for the computers, but this one is really easy. Cloanto, RetroGames and their partners own the Commodore stuff, although not the Commodore brand. That Subvert company owns most of the hardware and software from the British micros and the the TRS-80 is mostly translated Japanese software and multiple clones of other games, no value there.
I forgot!! There’s one more. That might have some value, not Intellivision-like value but something can come out of it even if it just for one game like they did with Stern, even though is a Pac-Man clone: The Arcadia 2000. The problem: What or who the hell was UA??
From my understanding they were a division of United Artists entertainment group who were looking to move into video games and also planned to publish games for the Atari 2600 (prototypes have been found) but they lost lots of money and the division was shut down.
@@TheLairdsLairThat’s what I thought too, but I’ve seen some videos in which they say they didn’t have nothing to do with United Artists. To make matters worse, the Pink Panther game was going to be released by Probe 2000, an American Philips subsidiary. So this one is a little murky, especially when you consider how it was sold differently in many markets, even Canada. It could be scattered or be one of the actual abandonware cases.
I'll second the idea of Atari acquiring the Colecovision IP, although my first reaction was the same - Coleco had almost no original titles, but I wonder who if anyone owns the rights to a big chunk of the games they licensed (from Exidy, Universal, etc.). That said, I'd so buy a Colecovision+ console with HDMI connectivity.
Until they start actually doing something with what they already have I'd rather they didn't get anything else. At present it seems like they're just acquiring things to horde them.
They are though, for example they acquired Stern then did Berzerk Recharged and released a new version of the game for the 2600. Digital Eclipse have already announced they are working on an Intellivision collection.
@@TheLairdsLair Yes, true but they have so many things, like you stated, that they've had a long time and still have yet to utilize them. I just hope a bunch of good things are forthcoming soon.
I was an adult when the Atari and Intellivision war was a thing at the beginning of the 80s. The only surprise to me is how long it took for the takeover to happen.
Lots of companies are bought and sold, very few are owned by the original owners, at least Infogrames have a pedigree in the video game industry as one of the pioneers of home computer games in France and western Europe. And at least they have had the sense to appoint Atari founder Nolan Bushnell to the board and make a genuine Atari fan in Wade Rosen CEO. If you think modern Atari are just milking the brand then you aren't paying attention. When Fred Chesnais was in charge that was definitely the case, but now they are doing genuinely great things and for me this is the most exciting period for Atari since the early 90s.
@@TheLairdsLair This post-near bankrupt of Atari SA incarnation of Atari is the best thing that has happened to the brand since the failed but passionate attempts of Tramiel to recover the prestige they once had. Although Infogrames will always have a key role in this renaissance, I think by now, with all the sales, acquisitions and what the‘ end been releasing, is safe to say that this is more Atari than Infogrames now. It’s a little funny to think that prior to this, Atari USA almost split from Atari SA: if things keep going like this, do you think we could see the closure of the French parent company and the consolidation of the American daughter company as headquarters? It happened with DIC.
Atari should buy Sega and all their IP .. Sega isn't using them much. Honestly Atari has purchased a lot of stuff no one is even aware of, some great old pc games
Sega is owned by a huge, huge pachinko and amusement company. Not just that, even without releases, their brands are way, way valuable to sell it for pennies. I think Atari’s next move is not on the console market, they will aim for the remaining American home computer game makers from the 400/800 era.
Buy? None. It's not Atari. It's Infogrames. They bought Atari and took the name because of brand recognition. The atari from the 80s or 90s is dead and buried. It does not exist. It's just Infogrames trying to monetize a brand for whose success they had ZERO influence.
This is Atari. Infogrames is long dead. They don’t even have what made Infogrames a recognized brand. This is more Atari than what it has been in over 30 years.
I can’t believe you only have 15k. You have so much content and goes in decent depth in each video. You go into so much detail over the course of all the videos around a certain subject that you cover all bases. I am huge into this subject of hardware, history and gaming. So I do know a lot of these subjects, I like to think so anyway lol. Every so often I actually learn something from your videos, so that tells me you do your research. You do hard work and great work. That’s why I’m surprised you aren’t making at least a 100k subs video at this point. Thank you for all you do, all your effort. In my opinion you have very few rivals in the caliber and diversity of content you create. Many may make videos on the same subject but your quality far surpasses 99 percent of them on UA-cam. Again it’s just my opinion but I watch a lot of channels like yours and I can count on 1 hand how many do as good as job as you. Congrats and I am waiting for the day of the 1 million sub video because if anyone appreciated this subject as much as I do, when they find you, they will sub and flock to this channel.
Thank you so much for your kind words!
Congrats on the 15k dude! It should be a lot more, as I find your deep dives into the historical aspects to be the best on UA-cam. Keep up the great work!
Congratulations on the 15K subs! Like others in the comments have said, you should have over 100K based on how great your content is. You are a veritable fount of knowledge on all things retro gaming.
Informative take on the idea of Atari buying ColecoVision. I was also thinking they should buy them next. I would just love to see a ColecoVision+ as the original console is notorious for being very unreliable (I've never owned one myself).
I also strongly agree with your argument that Atari should acquire Atari Games & bring all those great Atari arcade games back under their umbrella! This should be their top priority when it comes to acquiring IP - I've been wishing this for years. Some other big Atari Games IP you didn't mention is Rampart, the SanFrancisco Rush games, Area 51 & its sequel, Maximum Force (published these last 3).
I would also love to see a video of your take on The400 Mini.
I don't have the 400 Mini because it didn't really interest me, perhaps when it comes down in price.
1) Congrats on 15K!
2) May as well get Coleco next, have the "Big 3" of the classic era consoles under one roof!
I didn't know they sold off Magnavox.
That's a shame, while Intellivision may have been itvs biggest rival, Odyssey i would consider Atari's "original" rival.
Imagic is a definite acquisition they need to make.
The own M Network (I believe they owned it BEFORE, but they definitely own it now)
They'll never get Activision though. But they should definitely try to work out a licensing agreement.
Activision own all the Imagic I.P., so that's unlikely.
@@TheLairdsLair That I did not know... Bummer...
Well done on the subs lad.
Congratulations!! 🎉🎊
Favourite games from each year would be really interesting to watch, maybe 81-84, 85-88 so on
Yeah, the more I think about that idea the more I like it and I may well come back to it as a regular video series.
During the 90's, my teenager life was WCW and SEGA. So, listening to you mentioning the WCW purchase and an (hipotetical) SEGA purchase, almost gave me a panic attack.
Congratulations on the 15000 subscribers!
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Congratulations
I hope they buy rights for the Imagic catalog. Would love to see a re-imagined Demon Attack, Cosmic Arc, Dragon Fire, etc.
Unfortunately Microsoft own that through their purchase of Activision, so it's unlikely, but we can hope.
@@TheLairdsLair I think Activision owns them?
@@TheLairdsLairThat might not be the case. Apparently, Activision only got some licenses back in the early 2000s for their Anthology releases, that also included some homebrews for the GBA version.
Activision re-released all the Imagic games in PAL regions during the late 80s, they all have a Activision copyright on them. I was also told by Rob Fulop that Activision own them.
@@TheLairdsLairOh, well. One more library we can rule out. MS is open to partnerships and licensing but, an IP sale? Quite unlikely.
Congrats on the 15k but I swear I saw videos of yours about 2 years ago and you had 12k then? Have things slowed down a lot? I am a big fan of gamer channels like Guru Larry and Kim Justice plus the niche smaller ones like yours so keep it up! Here's to 16k next year dude!
I had an old channel that I lost due to copyright strikes and that was on 17k when it was taken down, but that was a lot longer than 2 years ago as I started this new one in Feb 2020.
Not going to lie it's hard to name a specific label as a lot of the smaller publishing companies of the era have been bought and re-bought multiple times over the years so hard to pinpoint who owns what on surface level.
Would like to see them acquire the old Synapse Software and Broderbund catalogues as there are a lot of great computer games there, again these companies have been bought and sold a few times though.
If they could afford it acquiring and Carmen Sandiego license would be a fun nostalgia throwback to release more fitting detective games in the series.
Yeah, they would be a good fit, although the Broderbund I.P. is owned by UbiSoft, hence the new Prince of Persia game.
@@TheLairdsLair Ah, I did a look into Broderbund quickly and it stopped around a Mattel subsidiary so it was clear this would be difficult to do. Ubisoft being the end boss though makes it clear it would be impossible.
Well done on the 7800 article - I'd love to write for Retro Gamer!
I wrote for them for over 7 years and did over 50 articles including 3 covers, I enjoyed it but the lack of creative control was very very frustrating and the pay wasn't great either.
@@TheLairdsLair Pay never is good good for a writer.
But on the plus side, I probably read a lot of your work!
True enough, but I earn more writing self-published books than I did working for somebody else.
Finally! A youtuber with a common sense.
I’ve been answering some comments on other videos on this Intellivision thing with the exact same points you just said and nobody listened. Would you believe I even found someone who still believes the Amico was a good idea from the start?
I hope they do listen to you because seeing the same “I hope the buy Coleco“ crap is tiresome.
They should get the ip back for Battlezone and the later Atari branded arcade games that you talked about
accept Atari Arcade stuff is owned by a huge company thats not giving them up. Warner is way bigger than fake Atari
They might had already, the game appeared on The 400 mini.
Nope, it was licensed from Rebellion on the A400
@@Tolbat You are thinking of Atari Games. All the games created by Atari Games and their Tengen ports are owned by WBD. The arcade games prior to the split stayed in Atari Corp, therefore, its successor still owns them... except for that one game they thought it was a good idea to sell.
@@TheLairdsLair Interesting, I was wondering how Battlezone appeared on the The400 Mini. Thanks for the confirmation on that. Do you happen to know why Star Raiders wasn't on there? I know SR II was, but the first Star Raiders was one of the biggest games on the Atari 8-bit computers.
Well done!
I like your videos because theyre like talking to a good friend who knows more about video gaming than you do.
I think, for the future, how about your top ten for each genre or your favourite genres? Its something i know i would watch, im sure others would too.
Thank you, I am so glad you enjoy them.
That's a great idea, something I'll definitely consider doing.
@@TheLairdsLair youre welcome. Youre videos are very well researched 🙂.
Im glad you like the idea. I enjoy particular genres and i think its good to see what other people enjoy and if theres anything that passed you by or to keep an eye out for.
Vectrex , make the console again
Given Square Enix's finacial situation, maybe Atari can acquire the rights for old Taito games like Space Invaders, Phoenix, Qix and others.
Taito is still quite big in Japan. Like Konami, video games are but one of their businesses, maybe SquareEnix saw in Taito a way to expand their IPs in other media.
It’s very likely they are spun off and stay on their business as usual. It wasn’t the Eidos/Cristal Dynamics situation.
They should buy Coleco and then release their own cart based Evercade competitor, The Lynx III and stick it in a Panther case for the VS model.
As for what they should, or rather said could acquire, is really hard to tell. Of course, we can and must rule out the analogy created by this purchase: to acquire the competition from that time.
RCA Studio II, I think it’s gone into PD, even the RCA brand nearly went into PD until some Chinese bought the abandoned brand, so there’s a no in that part and a big no on the library part. Seriously. Why would anyone want a bunch of generic primitive titles.
The Channel F, I think some are owned by their authors, some by Zircon (apparently still exist), but, again, why to go to the hurdle of buying generic early games?, how much can the historical meaning be milked for profit?
The Vectrex (which might include the Microvision) has a huge problem: everything has been released for non-profit use. I’m not an American lawyer, but I think violating that kind of licensing can lead to legal problems.
With the Astrocade, we actually have all the problems of the above. Some games have been freed by their creators, like Jamie Fenton, others are still held by Bally and/or WB Games (whether they know they have them or not) and the rest are pretty much unlicensed blatant clones of games owned by multiple parties. So, no, too much trouble for Atari’s legal department. That includes the copyright nightmare that GORF is, so, STOP ASKING FOR IT!
Then we get the competition for the computers, but this one is really easy. Cloanto, RetroGames and their partners own the Commodore stuff, although not the Commodore brand. That Subvert company owns most of the hardware and software from the British micros and the the TRS-80 is mostly translated Japanese software and multiple clones of other games, no value there.
I forgot!! There’s one more. That might have some value, not Intellivision-like value but something can come out of it even if it just for one game like they did with Stern, even though is a Pac-Man clone: The Arcadia 2000.
The problem: What or who the hell was UA??
From my understanding they were a division of United Artists entertainment group who were looking to move into video games and also planned to publish games for the Atari 2600 (prototypes have been found) but they lost lots of money and the division was shut down.
@@TheLairdsLairThat’s what I thought too, but I’ve seen some videos in which they say they didn’t have nothing to do with United Artists. To make matters worse, the Pink Panther game was going to be released by Probe 2000, an American Philips subsidiary. So this one is a little murky, especially when you consider how it was sold differently in many markets, even Canada.
It could be scattered or be one of the actual abandonware cases.
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I'll second the idea of Atari acquiring the Colecovision IP, although my first reaction was the same - Coleco had almost no original titles, but I wonder who if anyone owns the rights to a big chunk of the games they licensed (from Exidy, Universal, etc.). That said, I'd so buy a Colecovision+ console with HDMI connectivity.
Collectorvision own all the Exidy I.P., I'm not sure about Universal.
Until they start actually doing something with what they already have I'd rather they didn't get anything else. At present it seems like they're just acquiring things to horde them.
They are though, for example they acquired Stern then did Berzerk Recharged and released a new version of the game for the 2600. Digital Eclipse have already announced they are working on an Intellivision collection.
@@TheLairdsLair Yes, true but they have so many things, like you stated, that they've had a long time and still have yet to utilize them. I just hope a bunch of good things are forthcoming soon.
I was an adult when the Atari and Intellivision war was a thing at the beginning of the 80s. The only surprise to me is how long it took for the takeover to happen.
Forget ip, just release intellivision 4.
They didn’t even release the real III. The INTV III was a rebranded and cheaper Master Component.
Considering its Infogrames and they are a French company..... They are Not Atari and just milk the nostalgia.
Lots of companies are bought and sold, very few are owned by the original owners, at least Infogrames have a pedigree in the video game industry as one of the pioneers of home computer games in France and western Europe. And at least they have had the sense to appoint Atari founder Nolan Bushnell to the board and make a genuine Atari fan in Wade Rosen CEO. If you think modern Atari are just milking the brand then you aren't paying attention. When Fred Chesnais was in charge that was definitely the case, but now they are doing genuinely great things and for me this is the most exciting period for Atari since the early 90s.
@@TheLairdsLair This post-near bankrupt of Atari SA incarnation of Atari is the best thing that has happened to the brand since the failed but passionate attempts of Tramiel to recover the prestige they once had. Although Infogrames will always have a key role in this renaissance, I think by now, with all the sales, acquisitions and what the‘ end been releasing, is safe to say that this is more Atari than Infogrames now.
It’s a little funny to think that prior to this, Atari USA almost split from Atari SA: if things keep going like this, do you think we could see the closure of the French parent company and the consolidation of the American daughter company as headquarters? It happened with DIC.
Atari should buy Sega and all their IP
.. Sega isn't using them much. Honestly Atari has purchased a lot of stuff no one is even aware of, some great old pc games
Sega is owned by a huge, huge pachinko and amusement company. Not just that, even without releases, their brands are way, way valuable to sell it for pennies.
I think Atari’s next move is not on the console market, they will aim for the remaining American home computer game makers from the 400/800 era.
Buy? None.
It's not Atari.
It's Infogrames.
They bought Atari and took the name because of brand recognition.
The atari from the 80s or 90s is dead and buried. It does not exist. It's just Infogrames trying to monetize a brand for whose success they had ZERO influence.
You could say that about loads of companies though, at least the modern Atari have Nolan Bushnell on the board.
This is Atari. Infogrames is long dead.
They don’t even have what made Infogrames a recognized brand.
This is more Atari than what it has been in over 30 years.