Let's Pool Our Resources and Buy Atari - How Much Will You Contribute?

[svenski]

Sorry Marty, was doing my reply as you did yours.

[Cebus Capucinis]

Well, if it's just the brand name and IP it's a different story altogether anyway. To be honest that's the only valuable asset they seem to have, nonetheless.

[Spurge]

Seeing it's just the brand name and IP, lets hope someone does things right for a change. There's is a lot of potential there!

[Serious]

I would participate in a Kickstarter project to buy Atari's name and IP (Asteroids, Pong, Centipede, Gauntlet, etc) if there was equity with voting rights.

 

I would not participate if there's a backdoor of starting a new company that is not branded Atari and does not own their IP. I would want my funds returned in that scenario.

[Curt Vendel]

OKay,

 

Just received a call from a very big player with several investment bank backers... the crowd funding idea is great, but things are going to happen very rapidly, possibly within a week, so our effort to try and do a 30 or even 15 day project will be too late, so at this point we need to hang tight and as I get information I'll keep everyone posted, or give to Marty to share with everyone.

[Spurge]

Thanks for the updates Curt. Hope this all turns out good and you get to put major input in the direction of the Atari name and its use.

[PacManPlus]

Thanks Curt for the updates - best of luck with your surgery!

[bojay1997]

I'm sorry, but you can't currently sell equities in a company via Kickstarter nor can you grant future profit participation. So, while you could fund an entity to acquire the Atari IP through Kickstarter, the backers could not receive shares in that entity nor the IP itself. As such, while the intentions of everyone are good, this definitely is not the right way to go about this unless you expect people to donate millions of dollars for this effort in some good faith belief that the new owner is going to do right by the "community".

Edited January 23, 2013 by bojay1997

[AtariNerd]

Well, that escalated quickly. There is definite hunger for the brand..

[Dan Iacovelli]

I wonder who this big player is curt is talking too, a couple names do come to mind (ray kaser,bob brodie or don thomas ( was in contact with bob and don in the later days of Atari)

[Bill Lange]

So if this sounds like something all of your crazies want, then I guess I'm even more crazy to try and pull this together and get a kickstarter project going and launched by Monday and then Marty will be point man to field things while I go into surgery and take about 1-2 weeks to recover...

 

I'm very interested in helping to fund this project. I'd really need to see what a Kickstarter would offer to contributors and a business plan.

 

As I mentioned elsewhere, I'd like to see an "Atari Program Exchange" of sorts for home-brewed software and hardware project for all platforms (dedicated, arcade, pinball, consoles, computers) to make the projects official and help with the manufacturing costs (economies of scale).

 

Bill

[Atari2600Lives]

Anyone know if they are willing to sell it in parts ?

Edited January 23, 2013 by Atari2600Lives

[stevefulton]

Any idea if Indiegogo might work? What if the idea is instead to buy Atari's properties and send them into the public domain?

[The Usotsuki]

Shoulda figgered Curt'd get involved. XD

[sqoon]

Just hope that Atgames doesn't get its hands on Atari.

[Reaperman]

OKay,

 

Just received a call from a very big player with several investment bank backers... the crowd funding idea is great, but things are going to happen very rapidly, possibly within a week, so our effort to try and do a 30 or even 15 day project will be too late, so at this point we need to hang tight and as I get information I'll keep everyone posted, or give to Marty to share with everyone.

Well that's kind of a bummer. I rather liked the idea of the community pitching in to buy it.

[JohnBuell]

If it just comes back to the other suggestion of pumping in some money to back Syzygy and its retro projects, I'm in for that. Maybe some day instead of the old "Atari - Syzygy Engineered" it'll say "Syzygy - Atari Engineered"...or something like that.

Curt - get better! Marty - are you keeping a list of fanbois waving money?

[+wongojack]

I'm interested in contributing to this. I'll stay tuned for more details.

[Noelio]

I'd have to see what is proposed and see any language regarding equity stake etc. My interest is peaked and eyebrow raised.

[The Usotsuki]

I don't got a lot of money but it's something I might actually throw a few bucks at if I had the opportunity.

[+batari]

I'm sorry, but you can't currently sell equities in a company via Kickstarter nor can you grant future profit participation. So, while you could fund an entity to acquire the Atari IP through Kickstarter, the backers could not receive shares in that entity nor the IP itself. As such, while the intentions of everyone are good, this definitely is not the right way to go about this unless you expect people to donate millions of dollars for this effort in some good faith belief that the new owner is going to do right by the "community".

i was kind of thinking the same thing but wasn't quite sure how that could work. However a kickstarter could be successful if the contributors were offered tangible products in exchange for their investments. For instance, if the brand is used to release officially-licensed products that otherwise could not be, the contributors could get the first of those products.

[Aamp]

Put in the store: AtariAge Is Buying... Atari ...and cartridges . Be neat to be an investor and a part of history if it could work.

[Albert]

Put in the store: AtariAge Is Buying... Atari ...and cartridges . Be neat to be an investor and a part of history if it could work.

 

[+frankodragon]

If this does come to reality, I'd like to be part of the art and design department.

Edited January 23, 2013 by frankodragon

[SpaceDice2010]

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Edited January 23, 2013 by SpaceDice2010