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Atari Legal Issues Keep Ecko From Getting Up
Hip-hop fashion designer, Marc Ecko, first hit the video game scene in 2006 when Atari published Marc Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure. The game follows amateur graffiti artist, Trane, who uses tagging as a form of protest in a future world that lacks freedom of expression. Though Getting Up did not quite meet the success of one of the original graffiti-themed games, Jet Set Radio, Ecko told Destructoid he wants to revive the Getting Up title.
“Getting Up was a lot of blood, sweat and tears,” he says. “Atari s*** the bed, you know? And I’m gonna f****** make that game again if it kills me. I’m gonna do it. I want to see the brand out there again.”
Legal entanglements with Atari are currently tripping up the project, but he is still determined to create a follow-up.
“Imagine if given the opportunity in this market and the velocity of the market, and all the developments within the hardware, what we could do with that genre,” Ecko says. “I feel really confident that we can do something meaningful and fun, regardless of the rough around the edges road of getting it to the market.”
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