{"id":3880,"date":"2013-01-21T13:14:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2013-01-24T13:18:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T20:18:16","slug":"first-twinkies-now-atari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/21\/first-twinkies-now-atari\/","title":{"rendered":"First Twinkies, Now Atari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/insertcoin\/2013\/01\/21\/atari-us-files-for-bankruptcy-sells-assets-logo\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from Forbes<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Atari US Files for Bankruptcy, Sells Assets, Logo<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-images.forbes.com\/insertcoin\/files\/2013\/01\/atari.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"248\" \/>In an effort to untangle itself from its parent company, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/places\/france\/\" target=\"_blank\">France<\/a>-based Atari SA, Atari US has filed for\u00a0bankruptcy\u00a0and will sell all its\u00a0assets\u00a0in the next three to four months. They have already locked down a\u00a0\u00a0debtor-in-possession investment of $5.25M from investment advisory Tenor Capital\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/management\/\" target=\"_blank\">Management<\/a>\u00a0and hope the move will land them some fresh business.<\/p>\n<p>What assets are on the auction block? That would be classic franchises like Pong, Centipede, Missile Command and\u00a0Asteroids, so Hollywood get out your checkbooks for those film rights. Wait, you\u2019re telling me there\u2019s\u00a0<em>already<\/em>\u00a0an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/new\/Asteroids-Movie-Getting-Rewrite-34165.html\" target=\"_blank\">Asteroids movie in development<\/a>? Of course there is.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/insertcoin\/2013\/01\/21\/atari-us-files-for-bankruptcy-sells-assets-logo\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Forbes<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Forbes Atari US Files for Bankruptcy, Sells Assets, Logo In an effort to untangle itself from its parent company, the\u00a0France-based Atari SA, Atari US has filed for\u00a0bankruptcy\u00a0and will sell all its\u00a0assets\u00a0in the next three to four months. They have already locked down a\u00a0\u00a0debtor-in-possession investment of $5.25M from investment advisory Tenor Capital\u00a0Management\u00a0and hope the move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}