early 1996 industry arcade games video games fate dissolved by midway games founded 1984 ; 32 years ago 1984 defunct 2003 2003 headquarters milpitas california u.s. key people ed logg products gauntlet marble madness paperboy number of employees 400 parent atari corporation website web.archive.org web http atarigames.com atari games corporation was an american producer of arcade games . it was originally the coin operated arcade game division of atari inc. and was split off into its own company in 1984 . contents 1 history 2 arcade games developed by atari games 2.1 unreleased prototypes 3 references 4 external links history edit when the atari inc. division of warner communications lost 500 million in the first three quarters of 1983 its arcade coin op division was the only one to make money . 1 in 1984 warner sold the atari consumer division of atari inc. which included the video game divisions to jack tramiel who named his company atari corporation but retained the arcade coin op division atari coin renaming it atari games . the agreement between tramiel and warner communications was that atari games must always include the games after atari on its logo and that atari games could not use the atari brand at all in the consumer market computers and home consoles . atari games retained most of the same employees and managers that had worked at the old atari inc. it was able to carry on with many of its projects from before the transition . atari corp. in contrast froze projects and streamlined staff and operations . in 1985 the controlling interest of atari games was sold to namco a company with strong past ties to atari inc. who soon lost interest in operating an american subsidiary . in 1986 a group of employees bought namco s share . atari games continued to manufacture arcade games and units and starting in 1987 also sold cartridges for the nintendo entertainment system under the tengen brand name including a version of tetris . the companies exchanged a number of lawsuits in the late 1980s related to disputes over the rights to tetris and tengen s circumvention of nintendo s lockout chip which prevented third parties from creating unauthorized games . atari games legal battles with nintendo should not be confused with those of its former parent company atari also exchanged lawsuits with nintendo in the late 1980s and early 1990s . the suit finally reached a settlement in 1994 with atari games paying nintendo cash damages and use of several patent licenses . 2 in 1989 warner communications merged with time inc. forming time warner . in 1993 time warner bought a controlling interest in atari games and made it a subsidiary of its time warner interactive division . while atari games maintained its identity under the new ownership its consumer division tengen on the other hand had been removed from the map in favor of the time warner interactive label . citation needed in mid 1994 atari games tengen and time warner interactive group were all consolidated as time warner interactive . 3 in 1996 after an unsuccessful bid by atari founder nolan bushnell atari games was sold to wms industries owners of the williams and bally midway arcade brands . 4 when hasbro interactive bought the remains of atari corporation the console manufacturer and resurrected the atari name in the home software arena atari games was renamed midway games west by parent company midway games to avoid confusing two atari brands . midway left the arcade market to concentrate on home systems in 2001 ending at the same time atari games influence in the arcade industry . midway games west produced games for home systems but was disbanded by midway in early 2003 after a slump in game sales ending the existence of atari games . until 2009 midway games west still existed as a holding entity whose primary function was to be the copyright and trademark owner for its franchises . in july 2009 all of the intellectual property of midway was sold to warner bros. entertainment ultimately bringing the atari games properties and history back to warner one final time . 5 arcade games developed by atari games edit 720 a.p.b. area 51 area 51 site 4 badlands batman blasteroids california speed championship sprint cops cyberball cyberball 2072 escape from the planet of the robot monsters gauntlet gauntlet ii gauntlet legends guardians of the hood hard drivin hydra indiana jones and the temple of doom klax marble madness maximum force moto frenzy off the wall paperboy peter pack rat pit fighter primal rage qwak atari r.b.i. baseball race drivin rampart relief pitcher roadblasters road burners road riot 4wd road runner s.t.u.n. runner san francisco rush extreme racing san francisco rush the rock san francisco rush 2049 shuuz skull & crossbones space lords star wars the empire strikes back steel talons super sprint t mek tetris thunderjaws toobin tournament cyberball 2072 vapor trx vindicators vindicators part ii war final assault wayne gretzky s 3d hockey xybots unreleased prototypes edit accelerator arcade classics beat head bmx heat cyberstorm danger express freeze guts and glory hard drivin s airborne hot rod rebels marble man marble madness ii metal maniax primal rage ii road riot s revenge rally sparkz street drivin references edit mace scott 1984 02 27 . can atari bounce back . infoworld . p. 100 . retrieved 18 january 2015 . atari s full court press . gamepro 59 . idg . june 1994 . p. 184 . time warner s family reunion . gamepro 60 . idg . july 1994 . p. 170 . tidbits ... . electronic gaming monthly . ziff davis 82 17 . may 1996 . http www.sec.gov archives edgar data 1022080 000095012309009497 c51466exv2w1.htm external links edit official website from the internet archives wayback machine atari games museum . a history of atari games corp. midway games west v t e video game lists by platform amstrad amstrad cpc amstrad pcw apple apple ii iigs macintosh pippin ipod ios atari 2600 5200 7800 st xegs lynx jaguar cd atari 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