Atari/Infograms selling all game assets

[frezal]

Perhaps somebody should contact Grabriel Interactive and see if they still have the code and how the community can go about buying it.

[RpJk]

This is going to be interesting to see how this unfolds.

[GameKing3]

I really do hope that it gets picked up by a company that might make good use of it. It would be great to see a revival especially by someone other then Atari. I'm keeping my fingers crossed, but not holding my breath. On another note for 15 million we can buy the actual rights to Atari itself. Just a thought, then we can burn it to the ground for not just giving us the rights to a game no one else has cared about for a long time.

[AlexGRFan97]

If this crazy turn of events actually happens, we really need to combine funds and send someone out there to go check it out. This is our biggest chance at securing this game's source code we have ever had. The problem is, Atari may have deleted it by accident around 2004 which explains the lack of updates after that point. Also, like others have said, it may be bundled in with other games, and whoever wins that auction will probably consign the holy grail of Robot Arena to a warehouse, never to be seen again.

[GameKing3]

The major problem I see is that even if the game is sold on it's own the price tag may be too large for any of us to afford. More then likely though Atari will bundle it, and sell it to someone who will never know what they have.

[GroudonRobotWars]

Robot Arena was originally Infograms IP which is were the first and number 2 came from, RA was not Atari's IP until the two merged. It also does not help that after Robot Arena 1 failed to do good so Infograms re-branded the IP as a bargain bin game which does not really help a lot with the IP so it could very likely be put in a bundle with other odd or forgotten IPs or it will be alone for a low price.

Although it would be most likely that the IP will be put in a bundle simply because of how niche and unknown the franchise is, kinda like the same thing THQ did with some of their small IPs such as Titan Quest and Summoner which were put in a big bundle with other IPs.

[frezal]

It also does not help that after Robot Arena 1 failed to do good so Infograms re-branded the IP as a bargain bin game

It was always a bargain-bin game. That's all Gabriel makes. Anyways, do we even know if Atari owns this game? The publisher doesn't always own the IP. For example, Nintendo published Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie, but Rareware maintained ownership of the IP, which is why they have been able to make (and remake) Banjo games since their Microsoft acquisition.

[HurricaneAndrew]

As far as I understand, Infogrames and Atari didn't technically merge. I always read that Infogrames bought the company that was known as Atari at the time and began using the Atari branding for themselves because of how recognizable it is. The name "Atari" is just better for marketing due to it's history in gaming.