#atari force

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Ad for DC books in the Amazing Heroes 1984 top ten (from Jonni Thunder A.K.A. Thunderbolt #3 circa June 1985)

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Atari Force by Howard Chaykin

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House-ad for Atari Force (1984), a series featuring characters and stories loosely based on trademarks of Atari, Inc.

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Happy birthday to colorist Tom Ziuko!

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August 1985. José Luis García López illustration from the WHO'S WHO entry for Dart (Erin Bia O'Rourke-Singh), a precognitive interstellar mercenary from the DC ATARI FORCE series.

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José Luis García-López  Atari Force #6 1984

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Eduardo Barreto “Atari Force” Who's Who The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe (1985) #1 pages 24-25

Source, source

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Morphea

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Important advice for time travellers: If you ever find yourself in a future timeline where Atari is somehow still a successful corporation, get the heck out of there as quickly as possible. For example, look at Soylent Green, set in the far-off year of 2022, where overpopulation has led to horrific conditions and probably doomed mankind to extinction. And look what's in the background in one of the apartments in this bleak future:

That's right, it's Computer Space, Atari's first attempt at an arcade game, which was never much of a success in real life, despite its cool futuristic cabinet design. But in Soylent Green, it's still somehow around and apparently popular in 2022, suggesting that Atari is as well. And then there's Blade Runner, also set in the distant future of 2019, in a dark, dirty dystopia with evil megacorporations and opressed robots. And look, there in the background:

Okay, that's a pretty small sign, maybe Atari isn't that big? Well, look at the sequel, Blade Runner 2049:

Yep, skyscraper-sized billboards for Atari.

But maybe I'm being unfair. Let's see what kind of a future Atari themselves depicted in their licensed comic "Atari Force", set in the distant future of 2005, wherein Atari has become a major research institute:

Okay, that looks pretty nice, but what's this "Break-up" they're talking about?

Okay, so just a short World War III, I'm sure there were no lasting consequences...

Oh dear. Earth is basically dying, and the premise of the comic is that the only solution is for Atari to construct a dimension-travelling spaceship that can locate an alternate universe Earth where humanity can escape from their dying home world.

I know it's just three examples, but it's enough to make me think that while the world is in a pretty bad shape right now, it would be even worse if Atari was anything other than a brand name owned by another company at this point.

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Atari Force: Dart by José Luis García-López

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