News Atari has acquired the rights to the "M Network" collection of 2600 games.

[Krvavi Abadas]

Atari® — one of the world's most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — announced today the acquisition of more than a dozen Atari 2600 games published originally under the M Network label. The collection includes fan favorites Armor Ambush, Astroblast, Frogs And Flies, Space Attack, and Star Strike. Atari will seek to expand digital and physical distribution of the classic titles, create new games based on the IPs, and explore brand and merchandising collaborations.

“M Network represents a unique moment in Atari’s early history, and this acquisition expands the Atari 2600 catalog in a meaningful way,” said Atari CEO Wade Rosen. “We have the potential to reintroduce these titles in a number of ways, ranging from rereleasing them in collections to creating new games based on the acquired IPs.”

Atari also acquired the corresponding rights to the M Network brand. M Network was a video game division within Mattel that produced games for the Atari 2600 video game system during the 1980s.

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they just have to be making a second volume of the Atari 50th collection at this point, right? a lot of these smaller IPs would fit right at home there.

the M Network story on it's own is fairly interesting, they were a branch of Mattel devoted to creating games for the 2600. the exact same Mattel that was selling their own console (Intellivision) to compete with them.
this was a surprisingly common thing during that period, as Coleco (of the Colecovision) was similarly creating games for the 2600, and rather infamously created an accessory for the Colecovision designed to run 2600 games on it. as well as a standalone clone console.

 

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they just have to be making a second volume of the Atari 50th collection at this point, right? a lot of these smaller IPs would fit right at home there.

My understanding is that they're considering a set of smaller collections. But Atari seems to be positioning themselves as arcade era Limited Run Games, which I think is smart.