Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration is already packed to the rafters with unimaginable retro video games, distinctive interviews, and uncommon documentation on the historical past of Atari, however what should you needed much more..?
Effectively, the excellent news is that Atari and Digital Eclipse are releasing a brand new ‘Expanded Version’ of the sport that introduces 2 new timelines and 39 new video games. A bodily version and a collector’s steelbook (unique to Swap) may also be made obtainable when the sport launches on October twenty fifth 2024, however present house owners will be capable to obtain the brand new content material as DLC (we have reached out to make clear if this can be free or paid DLC).
As for the brand new timelines, the primary is titled ‘The Wider World of Atari’ and delves into extra underappreciated hidden gems from the ’80s, the work that artist Evelyn Seto carried out to create the now-iconic Atari brand, the delivery of Breakout with interviews from Al Alcorn, and way more. This part will comprise 19 playable video games and eight video segments.
The second timeline is titled ‘The First Console Warfare’ and chronicles the rivalry between the Atari 2600 and Mattel’s Intellivision. A number of M Community video games can be made obtainable alongside a bunch of interviews with the likes of former Intellivision sport 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.
After all, it is doubtless that the Intellivision content material is a direct results of Atari’s current acqusition of the model. Introduced in Could 2024, Atari bought the rights to the model itself and over 200 video games, successfully ending the primary console conflict. The Intellivision Amico, nevertheless, was disregarded of the deal and continues to be supposedly in growth.
Digital Eclipse has already expanded upon Atari 50 by way of free DLC, providing up the likes of Journey II, Save Mary, Return to Haunted Home, Aquaventure, and extra. The discharge of the Expanded Version will deliver the whole variety of playable video games to 154.
The bodily version of the sport will retail at $39.99, with the steelbook coming in at $49.99.