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04-28-2016, 06:10 PM
The co-founder of Atari is making video games again
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Atari the company might be a shadow of its former self, but **lan Bushnell isn't out of the games game quite yet.
The 73-year-old Atari co-founder never left games completely — but thanks to a new collaboration with mobile publisher Spil Games, he'll get to bring ideas he's been sitting on to smartphones and tablets.
SEE ALSO: **stalgia alert: Atari is bringing 100 classic games to Steam (http://mashable.com/2016/01/22/atari-100-classic-games-steam/)
Bushnell told CNBC (http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/28/atari-founder-bushnell-jumps-into-mobile-with-spil-games.html) that he's come up with around 30 concepts over the past decade and a half. Five to eight of those ideas will turn into mobile apps under the new deal, with the first expected to arrive in early 2017. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/28/atari-**lan-bushnell-spil-games/)
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Atari the company might be a shadow of its former self, but **lan Bushnell isn't out of the games game quite yet.
The 73-year-old Atari co-founder never left games completely — but thanks to a new collaboration with mobile publisher Spil Games, he'll get to bring ideas he's been sitting on to smartphones and tablets.
SEE ALSO: **stalgia alert: Atari is bringing 100 classic games to Steam (http://mashable.com/2016/01/22/atari-100-classic-games-steam/)
Bushnell told CNBC (http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/28/atari-founder-bushnell-jumps-into-mobile-with-spil-games.html) that he's come up with around 30 concepts over the past decade and a half. Five to eight of those ideas will turn into mobile apps under the new deal, with the first expected to arrive in early 2017. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/28/atari-**lan-bushnell-spil-games/)
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