> > > 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.
That doesn't really explain why they'd use a hacked up bootleg version tho
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