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Contents 1 Why Infogrames? 2 More meaningful info 3 Atari name change 4 A few questions 5 Zboub

[edit] Why Infogrames?

Why is it called "Infogrames" Why not -games, since they make games? It's always bothered me. Anyone know?

And lo, an answer was added to the article. Behold the power of Wikipedia! (Short answer? They're French.) — Catherine\^talk 00:53, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Satisfaction... has been received. Thankyou.

[edit] More meaningful info

I have taken this out. It's nonsense. It would be a lot better if you improved the article in a meaningful way - perhaps you could add something about the history of the company. As it stands the article describes the company's founding, and it tells us how to pronounce its name. But there is almost nothing about what the company did after 1983. How many games did it release? Were any of them famous? How did it go from obscurity to being one of the world's largest producers of computer games? Why did it adopt the Atari name? Where did they get the money from? How is the company thought of in France? 85.210.184.79 15:07, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Atari name change

Added more info on the Atari name change, I just grabbed the sentence from the Atari wiki. Page could do with some more info and a bit of a clean-up.--BrotherEstapol 15:01, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A few questions

Firstly I see in the opening sentence that "Infogrames Entertainment SA (IESA) was an international holding company", why the was? doesn't Infogrames still exist?

AFAICT, you're correct -- Infogrames has renamed all their subsidiaries Atari, but the corporate parent still retains the Infogrames name. So I believe this edit was mistaken, and I'm putting it back now. Without that was in the first sentence, the article seems to be consistent on this. -- jhf 15:36, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Anyway secondly, if you look at allot of their recent games, the company calls itself "Infogrames Interactive", in this article it's being called "Infogrames Entertainment" and it used to appear on games as just "Infogrames", so what is the explanation or the significance of the apparently changing name(s)? --Hibernian 07:50, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Zboub

The founders wanted to christen the company Zboub Système.

Just for info: Zboub means dicks in Moroccan Arabic... If someone wants to make sure that the statement is correct... Zouavman Le Zouave _{(Talk to me! • O))))} 16:52, 12 February 2007 (UTC)