Joust is not an Atari property. It'a owned by Warner Games.

The history of Atari is intertwined with that of a number of other companies like Warner, Williams and Midway. The family tree can be difficult to keep track of, but here goes. Pardon me if I skip some details and name changes that happened along the way.

1972 - Atari, Inc. founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney

1976 - Atari, Inc. purchased by Warner Communications

1984 - Atari , Inc. is split into two entities. The assets of the home video game and computer divisions are sold to Trammel Technology, a new company started by Commodore founder Jack Tramiel, which is then renamed to "Atari Corp". Warner retains ownership of the arcade game division which is renamed to "Atari Games".

Note: Atari Corp. also got the rights to do non-arcade versions of any Atari arcade titles released up to that point. This is the path by which we get most of the "Recharged" titles today.

1996 - Atari Games is sold to sold to WMS Industries, owners of the Williams, Bally and Midway arcade brands.

1998 - WMS spins off the non-arcade portion of their business to a new "Midway Games" company. Note this means Midway Games owned all of the old arcade games put out by Atari, Williams, or Midway.

2009 -- Warner Games buys most of the assets of Midway Games from bankruptcy proceedings for a mere $3 million,

Note that a lot of "Atari" arcade games from the early 80's were actually created and owned by other companies like Namco and then licensed to Atari. This includes titles like Dig Dug and Pole Position, as well as "Gauntlet" which was licensed from Midway Games.

Other than Mortal Kombat, Warner Games has shown no particular interest in doing modernized versions of any of their older properties. This includes:

Joust
Defender
Stargate
Klax
Marble Madness
Paperboy

That's a small sample of all the games Warner is sitting on.

Originally posted by mfulton:

Other than Mortal Kombat, Warner Games has shown no particular interest in doing modernized versions of any of their older properties. This includes:

Joust
Defender
Stargate
Klax
Marble Madness
Paperboy

That's a small sample of all the games Warner is sitting on.