Atari has introduced that it’ll launch Atari 50: the Anniversary Celebration Expanded Version on October 25 with two new timelines and 39 additional video games. Come test it out!
The Wider World of Atari timeline, which incorporates 19 playable video games and eight video segments, takes a collection of deep dives into tales from Atari historical past, exhibiting 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 type. 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 Nineteen Eighties; a highlight on the artist Evelyn Seto, who helped create the long-lasting “Fuji” Atari emblem; Pong creator Al Alcorn explaining the delivery of Breakout; and an exploration of the fan base’s position in discovering unreleased prototypes, creating “homebrew” video games, and preserving Atari historical past.
The First Console Warfare 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 crew 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 choice 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 recreation 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.
