XPost: rec.arts.movies.current-films, alt.movies   
   From: eichler2@comcastsucks.net   
      
   On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 00:37:08 -0000 (UTC), Lewis   
    wrote:   
      
   >In message <59dbee33.2225145375@localhost> Bice    
   wrote:   
   >> Someone mentioned in this thread that the timeline doesn't really fit,   
   >> that we should have flying cars and space colonies by now.  Remember   
   >> that the first one was based on a book written in the 1960s, and for   
   >> the new movie they were stuck using the same timeline if they wanted   
   >> to have Harrison Ford in it.   
   >   
   >In Blade Runner 2049 the Soviet Union still exists and Atari is a real   
   >company. Oh, and there's also a PanAm airline.   
      
      
   Atari's still around.  According to Wikipedia, they're currently   
   working on a new home video game console called the Ataribox that will   
   be Linux-based:   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari#Infogrames.2FAtari_SA_.28200   
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