> > Atari didn't make Pole Position in the first place. > > The Tesla also includes ROM sets for Asteroids, Centipede, Millipede, Lunar Lander, > and a bunch of others. > > Based on the fact that in one of the videos of the easter egg, the owner taps on a > button with a clear and obvious Atari logo (including the text "ATARI" beneath it), I > strongly suspect that Tesla did some sort of hush-hush licensing deal with the > rights-holders to Atari's back catalogue for this.
Whoever owns all the rights to those games has no problem whoring them out to whoever wants to pay them. Just go to a Walmart and check out the Blast! systems by AtGames, or the dozens of Atari Flashback systems they've released.
I'm sure they accepted Musk's money just fine.
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