Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration announced

Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration announced

Digital Eclipse and Atari are working together on Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration, which is a special package for Nintendo Switch and other platforms. This holiday, there will be a release.

About Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration

According to the official description, Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration “takes players on an interactive journey through 50 years of video games through interviews with designers, developers, and industry leaders, documentary footage, product design documents, high-resolution original artwork, and a specially curated list of more than 90 playable games.

” There will be games from the arcade, the 2600, the 5200, the 7800, the Atari 8-bit computers, the Lynx, and the Jaguar. Digital Eclipse has also made the Reimagined series, which includes “six new games that revisit, mash-up, and reimagine Atari Classics.”

These games are Swordquest: AirWorld, Haunted Houses, VCTR-SCTR, Neo Breakout, Quadratank, and Yars’ Revenge Reimagined.

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Interactive Timelines are the most important part of Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration. They bring together historical facts, digital artifacts, brand-new video interviews, and playable games into a single experience. When you come across a game in the Timeline, you can play it right away without having to go back to where you were.

The huge list of games includes games from six generations of original Atari consoles, home computers, and arcades. This is the most games ever put into a collection by the team at Digital Eclipse. Games from the popular Atari Jaguar and Atari Lynx systems will be playable on modern consoles for the first time ever. Behind every Atari game are the stories of what was going on at the company, how the games were made, and what hardware they ran on. These stories are told by the people who were there at the time. It is a rare chance to learn a lot about the history of video games from behind the scenes.

The talented team at Digital Eclipse has not only brought back these Atari classics in their original form, but they have also made the Reimagined series, which is made up of six new games that revisit, mix, and reimagine Atari classics. Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration comes with all of these new games.

Yes, you read that right: After nearly 40 years of waiting, the team at Digital Eclipse has made the fourth and final game in the legendary Swordquest series. They were inspired by Tod Frye’s ideas for the game’s design. Who will be the first to figure out what it all means and finish the quest?

  • Haunted Houses: The original “survival horror” game for the Atari 2600 gets a modern 3D voxel-based sequel with more houses, more scary situations, and more urns.
  • VCTR-SCTR is a mashup that celebrates the vector era of gaming by combining the gameplay from Asteroids, Tempest, and other vector-based arcade classics into a single, continuous challenge.
  • Neo Breakout is a fun and addicting two-player game that combines the best parts of Breakout and Pong in a way that looks more modern.
  • Quadratank is the first new game in the classic Tank series since 1978. It combines elements from the original games with four-player fun in team or free-for-all modes.
  • Yars’ Revenge Reimagined: Howard Scott Warshaw’s masterpiece for the Atari 2600 gets a whole new look, and you can switch between the old graphics and the new ones at any time! Mike Mika, the head of the Digital Eclipse studio, made Yars’ Revenge for the Game Boy Color in 1999.

What’s Important

Curated List of Classics: 90+ classic games lovingly presented with best-in-class emulation and modern quality-of-life improvements. You can also play classic games that haven’t been available for a long time. Some of the platforms are the Arcade, 2600, 5200, 7800, Lynx, Jaguar, and Atari 8-bit computers.

Interactive Timelines: Through interviews, archival images, special source material, and behind-the-scenes content, you can learn about the games that started the modern industry and the people who made them.

All-New Videos: Over 60 minutes of exclusive video interviews with some of the most important people in the games industry, including early Atari designers and engineers and other stars of the gaming world, in which they talk about how Atari has changed the landscape of video entertainment.

Everything is Unlocked: All game and bonus content is available right away for players to use whenever they want and in any order they want.

A look back at the history of video games. A must-have for collectors and video game fans.