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Nov 11, 2022 · Atari 50 is an incredible playable tour through video game history. The new retro collection is a cross between an interactive documentary and a virtual museum exhibition. By Andrew Webster, an ...
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration is a 2022 video game compilation and interactive documentary developed by Digital Eclipse and published by Atari to commemorate the company's 50th anniversary. It is composed of newly shot interviews with former Atari employees, archival footage, emulated games from the company's catalog, and six new games inspired by various Atari games.
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There’s technically a better way to play many of these games, and that’s on their original hardware. This is especially true for Atari in the 80s, who avoided joystick layouts almost entirely in their arcade games (e.g. Centipede’s trackball, Asteroids’ all-button control panel, Tempest’s spinner) and got even weirder with their home consoles like ...
There are some sad but likely necessary omissions from the Atari 50 collection: Atari’s masterpiece arcade game, Star Wars, and its vector sequel The Empire Strikes Back; Raiders of the Lost Ark for 2600; Alien vs Predator for the Jaguar. All of these, and many, many more beloved games based on popular licenses aren’t included here. You get E.T. th...
A highlight of Atari 50 are interviews with Atari employees, devs, and other creators. There are some incredible pieces of footage of the Pong factory in the early 1970s, and interviews with Atari’s founder Nolan Bushnell then and now. Long-standing, tall-seeming tales – like the first Pong machine prototype jamming up with quarters at a local bar ...
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For 90 games for $39.99, the price seems okay. But for a museum with the price of admission of $39.99, we feel like it wasn't that good of a trip. Put two and two together, then you get kind of a ...
Oct 16, 2024 · In this video I give an in-depth review and overview of the latest Atari 50 DLC called The Wider World of Atari including a look at all 20 new games.Video Li...
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Nov 11, 2022 · Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration review summary. In Short: More than just a retro compilation, this is a fascinating attempt to create an interactive history of Atari, that goes above and ...
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Nov 11, 2022 · Far from a cheap cash-in, throwing old-school games together with a minimum of fuss, Atari 50, on the contrary, is all fuss: fuss about the company, fuss about the good times and the bad, and fuss ...
