Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration Expanded Edition is adding 39 new games to the interactive documentary

[PowerDubs]

https://www.destructoid.com/atari-50-the-anniversary-celebration-expanded-edition-is-adding-39-new-games-to-the-interactive-documentary/

[ukiha]

Oh that’s amazing!

 

I’m really looking forward to this, all the footage and interviews was so nice

 

I’m only slightly mad Xbox isn’t getting a special edition version 

[digdugnate]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Tt7eZI_3XSmdmTqZp9rb76tGek-ZOowo/edit?msID=afe07e28-f683-44d4-97db-cd5922c47830#heading=h.1fob9te

 

here's the press release:

 

 

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EMBARGOED - Please do not post any coverage until 9:00AM ET on June 25, 2024

Atari Announces Expanded Edition of Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration

Featuring 39 new games added to the acclaimed Atari 50 collection

 

Atari and developer Digital Eclipse are excited to announce a significant expansion to their acclaimed 2022 release Atari 50: the Anniversary Collection. The new version, entitled Atari 50: the Anniversary Celebration Expanded Edition, adds two new timelines and 39 games to the playable Atari retrospective. The game will release October 25 on PC, Switch, Xbox One and Series X, and PlayStation 4 & 5, and the Atari VCS this holiday, including a physical release on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 5.

 

The physical release will include a Steelbook version for Nintendo Switch, which will come with Atari 2600 art cards, miniature arcade marquee signs, an Al Alcorn Replica Syzygy Co. business card and a Steelbook case. The standard version will retail for $39.99 USD and the steelbook will retail for $49.99 USD.

The Wider World of Atari timeline, which includes 19 playable games and eight video segments, takes a series of deep dives into stories from Atari history, showing how Atari continued to influence creators and fans over the decades.  New interviews, vintage ads, historical artifacts, and more have all been researched and presented with Digital Eclipse’s signature style. Highlights from the new timeline include a deep dive into Stern Electronics' robot-blasting Berzerk; unusual and underappreciated innovations and hidden gems from the late 1980s; a spotlight on the artist Evelyn Seto, who helped create the iconic “Fuji” Atari logo; Pong creator Al Alcorn explaining the birth of Breakout; and an exploration of the fan base’s role in discovering unreleased prototypes, creating “homebrew” games, and preserving Atari history.

 

The First Console War timeline, which includes 20 playable games and half-dozen video segments, tells the story of the first major console war in the gaming industry between the Atari 2600 and Mattel’s Intellivision. The team at Digital Eclipse curates 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, and some rare Atari 2600 and 5200 prototypes. New interview features 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.

The new timelines and games will be offered to owners of the original Atari 50 release as DLCs later this year.

A press kit for Atari 50: the Anniversary Celebration Expanded Edition can be found at https://uberstrategist.link/Atari-50-Expanded-Edition.

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Thank you for sharing this news with your audience. If you’d like to arrange an interview with the team at Digital Eclipse to discuss their work on Atari 50, just reply to this email. 

 

We will reach out again when review keys and physical samples are available.

Jessica, Tabitha, and Brett
ÜberStrategist PR for Atari

 

 

 

Edited June 25 by digdugnate

[82-T/A]

I saw this on X while I was waiting for my haircut. This is such awesome news. I'm definitely going to buy this. I think I saw on X that it will also be available on the VCS as well. I'm hoping I can buy it and it will "add on" to the existing one (you can tell I haven't read the article yet, but will). I'd love to see it in a continued timeline...

 

But man, this is great, so excited. I'll probably buy this for my daughter's Switch too so I can propagandize her into the old ways...

[digdugnate]

I'm curious how much the DLC will be for owners of the current package.  Nintendo Life was reporting the release date as October 25th.

[Major Havoc 2049]

Any news on when the preorders go live for the physical editions?

[Mockduck]

This is really cool, although I am kind of bummed that my original Steelbook Switch copy will now be an incomplete, inferior version. 

[Flyindrew]

39 games, that is quite a significant number. As I have the Xbox Series S versions of the game, I hope us digital Xbox users will get the automatic update we can download.

[famicommander]

Good. I wish they'd focus more on software like this instead of releasing 500 janky ass emulation boxes that require 50 cryptic updates to do half of what they were supposed to.

[mickster]

12 minutes ago, Flyindrew said:

39 games, that is quite a significant number. As I have the Xbox Series S versions of the game, I hope us digital Xbox users will get the automatic update we can download.

it wont be an  update, but dlc.  so it will be available, but it will not be free

[Sinton]

Which games can we expect here? Atari bought the rights to Stern (Berzerk for Arcade and 2600?) and Intellivision since Atari 50 released? Any other?

Edited June 25 by Sinton

[GoldLeader]

I just realized I may need to buy a Nintendo* to play my Atari games....Hmmmm...Did anyone think it would ever come to this?  

 

 

I mean playing the NES while in college (1989) and it was the latest thing,  yet still having my Atari back home,...A little nostalgia there for me on the weekend trips back home to visit the folks...Life is interesting,   I will say.

 

 

 

*A Switch in this case

[donjn]

Whats holding them back from adding a "5200 pack" for $19.99?

Include the complete 5200 library (as much as they can anyways)

 

[Razzie.P]

1 minute ago, GoldLeader said:

I just realized I may need to buy a Nintendo* to play my Atari games....Hmmmm...Did anyone think it would ever come to this?  

 

 

Yes, johannesmutlu tried to tell us all about this for years.

 

 

 

Well, at least I think he did... he could have just been describing his favorite ice cream flavor, for all we know.  Hard to comprehend that one.

[donjn]

10 minutes ago, Sinton said:

Which games can we expect here? Atari bough the rights to Stern (Berzerk for Arcade and 2600?) and Intellivision since Atari 50 released? Any other?

I expect Night Stalker and Astrosmash to be first to be seen at some point as they can easily be played without the cramp-inducing INTV controller.
Night Stalker (and Tron Deadly Disks) as a twin stick shooter is S-tier fun.

Edited June 25 by donjn

[GoldLeader]

2 hours ago, digdugnate said:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Tt7eZI_3XSmdmTqZp9rb76tGek-ZOowo/edit?msID=afe07e28-f683-44d4-97db-cd5922c47830#heading=h.1fob9te

 

here's the press release:

 

 

 

 

 

I thank you for this!

 

At first I tried to read that fucky Detructiod site and it was the most annoying thing I've seen in a long while, and represents everything wrong with the world, humanity, and the internet as we know it.  First it begs you to turn off your Adblocker (Do NOT Comply),  then if you do,  it barrages you with everything you've grown to hate;  Pop-Ups (Forgot those even existed), videos, ads Everywhere!! It tries to turn on notifications...Just a total F-ing Shitshow!  (Never Again!)

 

I just wanted to read an article...Without way more Ads than article,...Does it have to be that hard?  I don't mind a couple of ads thrown in the mix if they're on the sides or unobtrusive,  But Detructoid needs to Die!

[+jeremiahjt]

24 minutes ago, Sinton said:

Which games can we expect here? Atari bought the rights to Stern (Berzerk for Arcade and 2600?) and Intellivision since Atari 50 released? Any other?

I would put money on the 2600 and 5200 ports of Berzerk. Maybe see the unreleased 8-bit computer port and the 7800 Frenzy homebrew. I highly doubt we see an arcade game made by Stern.

 

I also doubt we see any Intellivision games. I would guess we get every M Network game not entangled by another license.

[Sinton]

Did Atari buy the rights to Battlezone and/or the Imagic games, or am I misremembering some things now?

[+jeremiahjt]

3 minutes ago, Sinton said:

Did Atari buy the rights to Battlezone and/or the Imagic games, or am I misremembering some things now?

I wish to both of those, but no. Unless they did and have not announced it yet.

[TopDrawer]

Great stuff!

Really looking forward for this.

I really hope they update and add more content to the game as time goes by. Have this as the actual definitive Atari collection for the next years to come.

Hope they add more Jaguar games (Bubsy's Fractured Furry Tales, Attack of the Mutant Penguins, etc).

As well as proper Atari ST and Hasbro Interactive timelines in the future as well (those PS1 Atari classic game remakes were pretty fun, as well as Glover 1 and a playable version of Glover 2).

57 minutes ago, donjn said:

Whats holding them back from adding a "5200 pack" for $19.99?

Include the complete 5200 library (as much as they can anyways)

This too.

[+bent_pin]

49 minutes ago, GoldLeader said:

First it begs you to turn off your Adblocker (Do NOT Comply),  then if you do,  it barrages you with everything you've grown to hate;  Pop-Ups (Forgot those even existed), videos, ads Everywhere!! It tries to turn on notifications...Just a total F-ing Shitshow!

I haven't ventured into the cursed earth for many-a-year. I see nothing's changed.

[GoldLeader]

1 minute ago, bent_pin said:

I haven't ventured into the cursed earth for many-a-year. I see nothing's changed.

Ya know every once in a while I test the waters and comply with the request,  to read an article.  And Usually,    it's not so bad...A few things here or there,....But No,  that Destructiod site is Greasy! 

[+bent_pin]

37 minutes ago, GoldLeader said:

Ya know every once in a while I test the waters and comply with the request,  to read an article.  And Usually,    it's not so bad...A few things here or there,....But No,  that Destructiod site is Greasy! 

[zzip]

1 hour ago, Razzie.P said:

Well, at least I think he did... he could have just been describing his favorite ice cream flavor, for all we know.  Hard to comprehend that one.

I'm amezed that vanilla ice cream outsells chocolate

[DavidD]

35 minutes ago, zzip said:

I'm amezed that vanilla ice cream outsells chocolate

It's a miracle.