Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration Expended Edition SWITCH
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Atari and developer Digital Eclipse are proud to introduce a significant expansion to their acclaimed 2022 release, Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration. This new version, titled “Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration – Expanded Edition,” includes the original version and adds two new timelines as well as 39 games to Atari’s playable retrospective.
Description
Discover Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration Expanded Edition on Nintendo Switch!
The "Wider World of Atari" timeline, which includes 19 playable games and eight video segments, delves deep into the stories of Atari's history, showing how Atari has continued to influence creators and fans across the decades. New interviews, vintage commercials, historical artifacts, and much more have been researched and presented with Digital Eclipse’s signature style.
Highlights of the new timeline include an in-depth exploration of Stern Electronics’ robot-blasting Berzerk; unusual and underappreciated innovations and hidden gems from the late 1980s; a spotlight on artist Evelyn Seto, who helped create Atari's iconic "Fuji" logo; Al Alcorn, the creator of Pong, explaining the birth of Breakout; and an exploration of fans' roles in unearthing unreleased prototypes, creating "homebrew" games, and preserving Atari’s history.
The "First Console War" timeline, which includes 20 playable games and half a dozen video segments, tells the story of the video game industry’s first great console war between the Atari 2600 and Mattel’s Intellivision. The Digital Eclipse team offers an exploration of the rivalry, including Mattel’s quixotic decision to create games for the competing Atari 2600.
Highlights include a selection of M Network games, including some fan favorites; a mix of Atari and M Network sports games, as well as some rare Atari 2600 and 5200 prototypes. New interviews include former Intellivision Game Director Don Daglow, M Network programmer Jane Terjung, Activision’s David Crane and Garry Kitchen, homebrew programmer Dennis Debro, and historians Leonard Herman and Mike Mika.
PUBLISHER UIE
GENRE Shoot 'Em Up, Arcade
SUPPORT Cartridge video game
PLATFORM Nintendo Switch
AUDIO in English
TEXTS in English, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese
AGE RATING PEGI 16
Features
An expanded retrospective on video game history
Now with more than 140 classic games lovingly presented with best-in-class emulation and modern quality of life enhancements – and the ability to play classic games not available for ages.
Discover the brand that launched the modern video game industry and the creative individuals behind it through interviews, archival footage, special source documents, and behind-the-scenes content in an interactive timeline. Also explore the history of iconic brands such as Mattel's Intellivision and Stern Electronics!
Game emulation, recently recovered and unreleased prototypes, and other rare gems created for seven hardware platforms: Arcade, Atari 800, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Atari Jaguar, Atari Lynx.
Over 13 new exclusive interview segments with key figures in the game industry, including archival and contemporary interviews with first and third-party employees, programmers and artists, historians, fans, and homebrew developers!
An expanded retrospective on video game history, essential for collectors and video game fans
