UPDATE: 1/31/13, 2:25 p.m. EST. Information on Allen & Overy’s representation of Atari’s French parent company has been added to the 11th paragraph of this story.

Atari Interactive, the seemingly ancient maker of classic video games made famous by Generation X like Asteroids, Pac-Man, Piftall!, and Space Invaders, filed for bankruptcy in New York on Monday as part of an effort to separate from its struggling French parent company.