Atari is remaking a lot of its classics.
Atari is remaking a lot of its classics.
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Atari CEO Wade Rosen interview — Returning to classic video game roots

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 17 min

Atari has come back from the dead more than once. Under previous CEO Fred Chesnais, it moved into mobile games and struck gold with a popular Rollercoaster Tycoon title.

That bought the company some time, and it began to experiment with the Atari brand, getting it into everything from the Ready Player One film to a line of Atari-branded hotels. But Chesnais left during 2021 to pursue blockchain gaming passions, and Wade Rosen took over starting in April 2021.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.