Atari Games Corporation was an American producer of arcade games, and originally part of Atari, Inc.. When, in 1984, Warner Communications sold the Atari Consumer division of Atari Inc. to Jack Tramiel , Warner initially retained the arcade coin-op division , renaming it "Atari Games". The agreement between Tramiel and Warner Communications was that Atari Games must always include the "Games" after "Atari" on its logo and that Atari Games could not use the Atari brand at all in the consumer market . Unlike Atari Corp., Atari Games had most of the same employees and managers that had worked... at the old Atari Inc. It had been somewhat isolated from disarray of the transfer process that occurred with Atari Consumer, since it was still being retained by its original parent and was able to carry on with many of its projects from before the transition as well. Atari Corp., in contrast, was freezing all projects, letting go of much of the original staff, and streamlining operations in general.
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