The right way to do it
So... if you had a bunch of money, how cool would it be to gather up a bunch of the best programmers from the classic arcade era, and hire them to make new games?
You know... like Ed Rotberg (Battlezone), Owen Rubin (Major Havoc, Space Duel), Rich Adam (Gravitar, Missile Command), Ed Logg (Asteroids, Centipede), Tim Skelly (Rip-Off, Armor Attack, Reactor), Bruce Merrit (Black Widow) and Dennis Koble (Atlantis, Solar Storm)?
Well, some guy just did that. Seamus Blackley, one of the co-creators of something called the X-Box (I never was much up on them new-fangled consoles like the Nintendo and ColecoVision), got the band back together to create new games for mobile devices. iPhones, iPads and the like.
You can read the whole story at VentureBeat.com. Blackley teamed up with Van Burham (gamer chick and author of one of the most disappointing books on classic videogames ever) to found Innovative Leisure - a company that apparently is striving to be the spiritual successor to the original Atari.
Hopefully they won't end up being the literal successor to the original Atari.
They've already got 7 games in development, and THQ is on board as a publisher (fortunately, if/when THQ goes under, Innovative Leisure can take their games elsewhere).
I'm looking forward to seeing what they come up with. Could this be the start of a new renaissance in classic gaming?
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