An expanded tackle Atari’s compilation is coming this 12 months.
Almost two years after its unique launch, Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration is getting a really massive improve. Titled Atari 50: the Anniversary Celebration Expanded Version, this new model will supply all the pieces within the earlier assortment, plus an extra 39 video games. The Expanded Version can be launching October twenty fifth on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X|S, Atari VCS, and Nintendo Swap for $39.99. PS5 and Swap will each obtain a bodily launch for the sport, whereas Swap homeowners will even have the choice of a SteelBook version for $49.99. The SteelBook version will even embody Atari 2600 artwork playing cards, a set of mini arcade marquee indicators, and a reproduction of Pong creator Al Alcorn’s enterprise card for Syzygy Co.
Current homeowners of Atari 50 can be blissful to know that this new content material will even be supplied as DLC “later this 12 months,” although we haven’t any details about potential pricing or a launch date. The 39 new video games being added to Atari 50 can be discovered throughout two new timelines: The Wider World of Atari and The First Console Struggle. All through each, gamers also can count on a complete bunch of recent video segments, together with interviews with Al Alcorn, former Intellivision sport director Don Daglow, and extra.
Because the title implies, The First Console Struggle timeline will supply a historical past of the console struggle between Atari and Intellivision. Gamers will get to expertise each Atari and M Community video games, as Digital Eclipse breaks down the intricacies of the battle between the 2 firms. Gamers will even get to expertise “uncommon Atari 2600 and 5200 prototypes.” In the meantime, the timeline referred to as The Wider World of Atari will supply a deeper dive into a number of aspects of the Atari model, together with a highlight on Evelyn Seto, the artist that created Atari’s “Fuji” emblem.
The unique model of Atari 50 acquired robust vital reward for the best way that it not solely supplied gamers an opportunity to revisit a variety of older video games, but in addition an opportunity to study extra about their historic significance. It appears like Atari 50: the Anniversary Celebration Expanded Version will supply much more of the identical, and that could possibly be an excellent factor!
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