Atari buys up over 100 ‘groundbreaking and award-winning’ games from the ’80s and ’90s and says ‘many’ will be re-released

Something strange has been going on at Atari in recent years: Under CEO Wade Rosen, who’s held that position since April 2021, Atari has overseen some good re-imaginings of its old titles, culminating in a 50th anniversary game smooshing together elements of the company’s history that was pretty great.

Atari has now announced via press release it’s acquired “more than 100 PC and console titles from the 1980s and 1990s.” The games seem to be mostly from the back catalogues of three publishers: Accolade, Infogrames and Microprose. Included among them are games from the Bubsy the Bobcat series, Hardball, Demolition Racer, and the 1942: Pacific Air War, F-117A, and F-14 air combat series. Following the acquisition Atari is going to look to re-release certain of these titles, sell merch, and most importantly “create new games based on the IP.”