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for those unaware, Stern Electronics was once a company that made both arcade machines and pinball tables until 1985. where they filed for bankruptcy.
eventually Gary Stern (son of Sam Stern, owner of the original Stern Electronics.) was given SEGA's former Pinball division in 1999, which he used to revive the company (under the name "Stern".)
i think the Stern family still had the rights to the Arcade games even though the modern company solely makes pinball tables, which is how Atari was able to buy it.
the page notes that they've acquired the rights to 12 games, but only Berzerk and Frenzy are directly listed. this is apparently the full list.
knowing the modern Atari, a good chunk of the work will likely be licensing the IP out to anyone that asks for it. but i suspect one of those companies is hopefully Digital Eclipse, considering they expressed a light interest in "doing more" for the Atari 50th collection. i can see them making a pack containing detailed historical info (and the various ports) of those 12 games.
it also would be a big win for the classic video game album "Pac-Man Fever", as Berzerk and Mouse Trap are currently the only two games represented on there to not have any form of re-release.
(Mouse Trap was by another long since defunct company, "Exidy". and is so obscure nowadays that Buckner & Garcia weren't able to find a cabinet to record audio from when remastering the album.)
