Activision has submitted a new trademark application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office that hints that an Atari 2600 classic video game is getting remade.
On September 13, 2012, the video game company filed a trademark (Serial Number: 85728268) for “Laser Blast”.
The goods and services in the application cover, “Computer game software; computer game software for use on mobile and cellular phones, handheld computers, and portable and handheld digital electronic devices.”
Laser Blast was originally released in 1981 for the Atari 2600 video game system.
The game was designed by David Crane, one of Activision’s co-founders, who left the company in 1986. In Laser Blast, “you are a spaceship blasting away at enemy bases, which appear in intervals of three, while they blast right back at you.”
Activision also has a trademark for “Laser Blast” for video game cartridges, that dates back to April 1981.
In July, it was announced that Activision Leeds, the newly-founded UK studio, was revamping Activision’s first major game Pitfall.
So far Activision has made no announcement as to a remake, but this has all the signs of another Activision Leeds project.