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Nov 1, 2021 · 1. Atari made console design matter. Take a moment and soak in the sadness that is the design of other 2600-era video game consoles.
- Scott Bernberg
- Senior Editor, Features
- Space Invaders. One of the first shooting games ever, Space Invaders' lines of lurking aliens appeared in arcades before it became the first arcade game officially licensed for a console.
- Kaboom! Activision's Kaboom! (1981) became another million seller. The game starred a mad bomber who dropped bombs, which the player caught with three buckets at the bottom of the screen.
- Combat. Combat (1976) was one of the first Atari games. It contained 27 games in one, each representing different forms of combat, but all using tanks, jets, or biplanes as vehicles with weapons capability.
- Demon Attack. Imagic—a company that started with an "I" before starting with an "I" was cool—released Demon Attack (1982) for several consoles and computers, including Commodores, TRS-80, and of course, Atari 2600.
Nov 29, 2023 · It acquired Nightdive Studios, which built its name remastering older games for release on modern hardware, titles like Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition, System Shock: Enhanced Edition, and...
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Nov 11, 2022 · Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration is a playable history lesson spanning five decades of video games, and it’s available on the Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PlayStation, and Steam.
3 days ago · The Atari Recharged series breathes new life into iconic arcade classics like Breakout, Berzerk, Centipede, and more. This series is a thrilling reimagining of these timeless classics, modernizing their look and feel while keeping the pulse-pounding gameplay that made them legends in the first place.
Jan 14, 2022 · by Colin Campbell. Jan 14, 2022, 2:00 PM UTC. Illustration: Sonny Ross. In 2022, Atari will celebrate its 50th anniversary. In so doing, the company’s new boss, Wade Rosen, tells Polygon he is...
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Nov 30, 2023 · Atari will name all 12 games on the way next week, but for now, you can try and work out what a few are using the emoji teasers in the tweet below.
