52, technically, however who’s counting?
Pure Nintendo rated Atari 50: the Anniversary Celebration a 9/10 upon its launch again in 2022, stating, “Whether or not you’re searching for a nostalgic kick, curious to take a look at uncommon titles, or seeking to bone up on video games of a bygone period, Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration has you coated.” It would quickly cowl you much more with two new occasions and 39 extra video games.
This important enlargement will include a brand new identify when it’s launched for Change and different consoles on October twenty fifth: Atari 50: the Anniversary Celebration Expanded Version. It would additionally include a Steelbook bodily model that can embrace Atari 2600 artwork playing cards, miniature arcade marquee indicators, and an Al Alcorn Duplicate Syzygy Co. enterprise card.
The 2 timelines of recent content material are:
The Wider World of Atari timeline, which incorporates 19 playable video games and eight video segments, takes a sequence of deep dives into tales from Atari historical past, displaying how Atari continued to affect creators and followers over the many years. New interviews, classic adverts, historic artifacts, and extra have all been researched and introduced with Digital Eclipse’s signature model. Highlights from the brand new timeline embrace a deep dive into Stern Electronics’ robot-blasting Berzerk; uncommon and underappreciated improvements and hidden gems from the late Eighties; a highlight on the artist Evelyn Seto, who helped create the enduring “Fuji” Atari emblem; Pong creator Al Alcorn explaining the start of Breakout; and an exploration of the fan base’s function in discovering unreleased prototypes, creating “homebrew” video games, and preserving Atari historical past.
The First Console Conflict timeline, which incorporates 20 playable video games and half-dozen video segments, tells the story of the primary main console conflict within the gaming trade between the Atari 2600 and Mattel’s Intellivision. The workforce at Digital Eclipse curates an exploration of the rivalry, together with Mattel’s quixotic determination to create video games for the competing Atari 2600. Highlights embrace a number of M Community video games, together with some fan-favorites; a mixture of Atari and M Community sports activities video games, and a few uncommon Atari 2600 and 5200 prototypes. New interview options embrace former Intellivision sport director Don Daglow, M Community programmer Jane Terjung, Activision’s David Crane and Garry Kitchen, homebrew programmer Dennis Debro, and historians Leonard Herman and Mike Mika.
Ah, good; the primary indicators of Intellivision love from Atari’s acquisition of the Intellivision model. These M Community video games had been by no means practically pretty much as good as their Intellivision counterparts, however what a pleasure to see them get one other second within the highlight.
Oh, and no worries when you already personal Atari 50: the Anniversary Celebration; these two new timelines and video games might be supplied to homeowners of the unique Atari 50 launch as DLC later this yr.
