Hi everyone.   Well some new additions have been added into the Atari Coin-op section:  Space Race, Rebound, QuadraPong updated, Qwak!, Gran Trak 10 have all been added into the 1970-1974 area of the Coin-op / Arcade section.    Area 51, Hoop it Up, Wayne Gretsky's 3D Hockey and San Franisco Rush have been added to the 1995-1999 section.      In the Atari Coin Connection archives, two new issues have been added into the 1980 area.    About 9 more Coin Connections will be added shortly.

            On a sad note which I have known about for sometime now and have waited for it to become official, Midway has officially dropped the Atari name from its products.   Atari Games Corp, located at 675 Sycamore Drive in Milpitas, California has been owned by Williams Entertainment/Midway since 1996 when it was purchased from Time-Warner.     Since its purchase, many have noticed how with each new game that was released, the Atari name and logo were becoming smaller and less prominent on their games.    Over the last 6 months the www.agames.com and www.atarigames.com websites have been slowly and steadily changed from being an Atari dominate look to where Midway dominated the sites and the Atari name was relegated to a contact telephone # in the sub-menu's.     Atari Games Corp will now be called Midway Games West.   Many have already publicly voiced their opinions that Midway is doing itself and the industry and injustice by dropping the very name that in itself created the Video Arcade Industry and that it is a sad day for us all to see the Atari name and logo on the final product: SF Rush 2049 and for ever more see it disappear from the video arcades and entertainment centers and leave the very industry it started and set into motion.
 
 
 

Curt