Atari is building a gaming hotel with the producers of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" movie reboot.

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Atari is building a gaming hotel with the producers of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" movie reboot.

In the category of "news you didn't expect to read today or in the future," Atari has announced that it will build "gaming-themed hotels" across the United States. Are your parents complaining that you play too many video games? Soon you'll be able to leave home, hop on a plane, visit a new city, and stay in a hotel with video games. Now everyone is happy!

Described as "a unique lodging experience that combines an iconic brand with a one-of-a-kind video game-themed destination," the Atari Hotel will feature "immersive experiences for all ages and gaming abilities, including the latest VR and AR," and is a venue for esports events It also appears to serve as a venue for esports events.

If this concept art is accurate, it also includes playing Donkey Kong on the roof:

Would it be strange for Atari to get into the hotel business? It might be! But don't be skeptical, because it's being led by the man who produced a movie full of CGI turtles: [The hotel is being developed and designed by Shelley Murphy's GSD Group and the producers of the reboot of the highly successful movie "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Napoleon Smith III, is leading the project. True North Studios, a major real estate developer based in Phoenix, Arizona, along with Steve Wozniak's Woz Innovation Foundation, will work with the GSD Group to develop an Atari-branded hotel. [The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot was certainly a success (the two films together earned around $750 million worldwide), but it was also very bad. So the producer's involvement was probably more about Tony Shalove not being nominated for an Oscar for playing a talking rat than it was about box office receipts.

The first Atari hotel is planned for Phoenix, Arizona, with construction to begin this year. Also, if your electronic key doesn't work, try taking it out and blowing on it.

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