PR was never that popular (I have one in my arcade right now and it's always the lowest earning fighter I have, making less than $5 a week), and when you look at fighting games that people really want to compete on, PR isn't it. Atari Games made more off of the merchandising on it than they did on game sales.

You could incorporate the PR2 ideas in it, but either way, you still are starting over, then needing to design a 1v1 fighting game where fans of such games are very picky about how these titles play. The wisest course for anyone who wants to work on the PR IP would be to reboot it, starting from the beginning. Even if you did have those assets though, converting code & assets from an obscure mid-90s arcade platform to work on modern hardware would be an extra expensive PITA. A sane investor would want to finish the game, but the original source code & assets have not been discovered (likely lost long ago), so that means you have to start from scratch.

Now what? You could release a very incomplete, but at least playable game to the tiny VCS audience, but it would still require someone to get the game running in emulation and that isn't going to be free. Let's say that Atari sees your posts, think it's a great thing to spend their money on, and spends the million or more on licensing/buying it. Regardless the money option picked though, that's just the beginning. That's why when Eugene Jarvis' company Raw Thrills resurrected Hydro Thunder, they didn't bother to license that name and just called it H2Overdrive, as what Warner wanted for the HT name it wouldn't have made it worth the trouble. I've had discussions with several different people who have looked into working with Warner licensing and Warner just assumes that every game from that pool is worth about a million or so. Warner is pretty clueless as to what IP they own from Atari Games/Midway (aside from Mortal Kombat and Gauntlet). While licensing could be a cheaper route, it's still going to cost a lot of money. Pay WB Games/one of their subsidiary studios like Avalanche to make the game for you.

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