Bill Houlehan from O'Shea said that he bought the Atari inventory in 1990: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=22318
I find this rather odd, because Motorodeo, Ikari Warriors and BMX Air Master were manufactured in 10/1990. Doesn't really make sense to manufacture new games just to liquidate them immediately. Has anyone seen these games in regular stores?
I always thought the Atari inventory was liquidated around 1992?
Also several forum members posted that Big Lots started selling the Atari inventory in 1992/1993. Did they get the stock from Atari or from O'Shea? O'Shea says they bought the *entire* Atari inventory.
I assume the Venezuelan games are from Musicland and they have Motorodeo and Ikari Warriors as well. That would mean that they went into distribution and not directly into liquidation.