Atari dies…again.
The final vestiges of Atari Games were bought by Midway Games from Time-Warner Interactive in 1996. Their arcade games group was gone by 2001 but there were still developers working on console games in Milpitas, CA under the name “Midway West.” This group continued using the domain “agames.com” for email, short for “Atari Games.” Now, what was left of Atari is going the way of the dodo. Midway is closing down Midway West. The Atari name is still held by Infograms, so that can live on, but the last gasp of a developer group is finally being wiped. (Note: Despite what this Atari history page says at the very bottom, Midway West did survive beyond the 2001 arcade group shutdown.)