Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration – the acclaimed Atari-themed interactive museum from developer Digital Eclipse – is including 39 new video games later this yr in an enlargement detailing additional occasions within the firm’s eventful historical past.
Atari 50’s Expanded Version introduces two new timelines to the prevailing sport, beginning with The Wider World of Atari. This options 19 playable video games, eight new video segments, plus “interviews, classic adverts, historic artefacts, and extra” specializing in a broad vary subjects.
“Highlights from the brand new timeline,” explains Atari, “embody 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 brand; Pong creator Al Alcorn explaining the delivery of Breakout; and an exploration of the fan base’s function in discovering unreleased prototypes, creating ‘homebrew’ video games, and preserving Atari historical past.”
As for the Expanded Version’s second new timeline, that is known as The First Console Battle and it particulars the long-running rivalry between the Atari 2600 and Mattel’s Intellivision – a model Atari notably bought again in Might, securing the rights to over 200 video games on the similar time. This section guarantees six video segments and 20 playable video games, together with a collection of M Community video games, a mixture of Atari and M Community sports activities video games, plus uncommon Atari 2600 and 5200 prototypes.
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration Expanded Version might be accessible as a digital standalone launch and as DLC for the prevailing model of the sport. Each launch for Xbox One, Xbox Collection X/S, PS4, PS5, Swap, and PC on twenty fifth October, with PS5 and Swap additionally getting a bodily model of the Expanded Version.
Atari hasn’t but detailed the total listing of 39 video games included in Atari 50’s Expanded Version (which might be accessible along with 103 base sport titles and 12 retro video games added in a free replace final yr), however anticipate extra particulars within the run as much as its launch.