Atari 50th: Wider World of Atari DLC (Review)

[Giles N]

Ok, your office/gaming room is literally boobytrapped with old, wierd hardware-boxes, and stoked on winning, I’ll throw in my last 2 suggestions:

 

 

This little game is sort of unnerving for me, as all personal memories concerning hardware paperprinters bitds. was a feeling  they (!) were sort of against me, like personally. Perhaps best explained as if I felt some Evil Otto presence around these…  things  whenever I tried to use them…

 

(none of them Atari printers, pheew 😅)

Edited September 28 by Giles N

[Master Phruby]

20 hours ago, DEBRO said:

Hi there,

 

Those that have the DLC, let’s try a little exploration or Easter Egg find.

 

In the interviews I mention having my 800XL and printer in college. Can you find them in the video?

I did and I enjoyed your interview. I took my STe and printer to college and did the same thing. 

[Master Phruby]

6 hours ago, Giles N said:

Ok, your office/gaming room is literally boobytrapped with old, wierd hardware-boxes, and stoked on winning, I’ll throw in my last 2 suggestions:

 

 

This little game is sort of unnerving for me, as all personal memories concerning hardware paperprinters bitds. was a feeling  they (!) were sort of against me, like personally. Perhaps best explained as if I felt some Evil Otto presence around these…  things  whenever I tried to use them…

 

(none of them Atari printers, pheew 😅)

I had a 1027 printer. It has to be #2 in the box. #1 looks like some dvd player. 

[Sean_1970]

11 hours ago, Master Phruby said:

I had a 1027 printer. It has to be #2 in the box. #1 looks like some dvd player. 

I had the 1025 printer - not a popular choice for printing a paper late at night in a university dorm 😅

[+Cafeman]

3 hours ago, Sean_1970 said:

I had the 1025 printer - not a popular choice for printing a paper late at night in a university dorm 😅

This makes me laugh because Dennis mentioned it in his interview to and I keep seeing other similar comments!  I had a 1027, I lived at home at the time and printing late night reports would infuriate my dad. He would come into my room with tired eyes and grumble why can’t you do that earlier? Those printers were loud tap tap tap, tap tap tap.

[Master Phruby]

10 hours ago, Cafeman said:

This makes me laugh because Dennis mentioned it in his interview to and I keep seeing other similar comments!  I had a 1027, I lived at home at the time and printing late night reports would infuriate my dad. He would come into my room with tired eyes and grumble why can’t you do that earlier? Those printers were loud tap tap tap, tap tap tap.

And slow! I finally ended up with a Star nx1000. It was a much better printer.

[+jeremiahjt]

On 9/27/2024 at 7:03 PM, DrVenkman said:

EDIT: Hell, I'll pledge $50 right this second for BATTLE ZONE alone if Atari could get the rights back. The worst modern mistake this company ever made was auctioning off such an iconic IP without retaining the rights to market the arcade and 2600 ports.

I would do the same. Heck, if Atari and Rebellion came up with an agreement and Atari did some kind of crowdfunding to fund the purchase, I would donate to that.

[Sean_1970]

18 hours ago, Cafeman said:

This makes me laugh because Dennis mentioned it in his interview to and I keep seeing other similar comments!  I had a 1027, I lived at home at the time and printing late night reports would infuriate my dad. He would come into my room with tired eyes and grumble why can’t you do that earlier? Those printers were loud tap tap tap, tap tap tap.

The 1025 sounded like you trying to grind the thing in a garbage disposal - letter quality though!

[Hwlngmad]

On 9/27/2024 at 6:49 PM, Stephen said:

Laird, Lair - you misspelled that Liar.  Wouldn't believe a single word spoken or printed by said individual.

I didn't say the guy was right or wrong.  All I said was that he mentioned that it could be a possibility.  Whether you think it is bullsh*t or not, I leave that up to everyone else, such as yourself has done, to decide.

[Hwlngmad]

On 9/27/2024 at 10:17 PM, Sauron said:

Good Lord, are there still people out there not aware of how much of a liar that cretin is? Go read this thread to clue yourself in:

 

 

 

Nope, don't know the guy from Adam.  I will concede he could well be talking out of his a$$.  It isn't like we haven't seen others on this site do the same or various YouTubers for that matter.

[Flyindrew]

On 9/28/2024 at 9:49 AM, DEBRO said:

@Giles N that is the 800XL. Have you found the 1027 printer?

I saw the interview regarding the 800 XL and 1027 printer. I recently hooked up my old XDM121 dot matrix printer in my apartment (from XE era). My neighbors thought there was a shooting murder going on in my apartment when I was printing LOL

[Giles N]

On 9/30/2024 at 4:36 PM, Flyindrew said:

I saw the interview regarding the 800 XL and 1027 printer. I recently hooked up my old XDM121 dot matrix printer in my apartment (from XE era). My neighbors thought there was a shooting murder going on in my apartment when I was printing LOL

… hmm; if I cannot delete this input; just forget it.

 

Does ‘forget it all’ have its

own

standarized abbreviated form by now…?

 

   if not; just remember to  
       forget it all

 

  

Edited October 1 by Giles N

[Giles N]

Short and cut-to-the-bone message:

Sure We All  [ here ]  Love some ‘N certain personally-held favourite aspects of the DLC contents.

 

Atari, if you wanna get the NES’ers and post-NES’ers to either  check out Atari 50th Anniversary Celebration or have fun with these software pieces, made to suit anf fit the hardware and its Early-Inception Genré-defining games of 2600, - possibly a 5200, then let them play   the best stuff   on your systems! be it originals commons or rare titles, -almost lost in the sands of time, or homebrews crystallizing from pure interest in artistic endeavour;   Please (!) let some of this quality  endup.  shining  forth here, independent of immediatate commercial success…!  

Edited October 2 by Giles N

[Atariboy]

On 9/26/2024 at 7:47 PM, Atariboy said:

And for a possible final issue, Super Bug's yellow car overlay is to the best of my knowledge incorrect. It's a yellow circle in the several cabinets that I've been able to play on, it's a circle on the Code Mystics collections, and it's even a circle in one of the pictures of the cabinet on the original advertisement flyer in the timeline gallery for the DLC. Yet here it's presented like it's a children's drawing of the sun. Is that original to some Super Bug cabinets?

Looks like it actually is correct. Oops.

 

It's also not a circle on the Code Mystics collections even though I swore that it was. The pattern around it is a bit more subtle than with the representation of the overlay on Atari 50 and since you mainly see the yellow when crashing (clearly Atari meant it as a representation of your car exploding), it's over with quickly and the detail is easy to miss as you're rushing to get back into 1st gear to get going again.

[+jeremiahjt]

On 9/25/2024 at 2:11 PM, Atariboy said:

Out of curiosity, how does Super Bug control, Metal Jesus?

 

To further explain my question, Atari 50 launched with two overhead Atari arcade racing games that originally used free-spinning wheels. Fire Truck on Atari 50 used the conventional compilation setup where moving the stick/d-pad to the left or right spins the wheel left and right. Not particularly playable for many folks since the speed quickly overwhelms the player.

 

Sprint 8 on Atari 50 however copied what Code Mystics came up with on Atari Flashback Classics/Vault. The steering wheel is automatically oriented in the direction that you've pointed the analog stick towards. For instance if you're going straight up the screen and there's a sudden 90 degree bend to the right, you shift the analog stick from pointing straight up towards the 12 o'clock position and point it towards the 3 o'clock position. 

 

The former setup sucks and Super Bug will be a dud on here if they went with that setup (just look at MAME videos on YouTube of it which are universally full of constant crashing). The latter setup though transformed it into a very fun racer on the Code Mystics collections despite the foreign nature of a modern gamepad compared to the arcade cabinet's controls.

I played some Super Bug last weekend, and I think the control is pretty good. I cannot play it with the analog stick, but I can do it pretty good with the directional pad.

[alucardX]

On 9/25/2024 at 7:02 AM, Metal Jesus said:

 

Atari and Digital Eclipse are back with a new DLC to their excellent Atari 50th the Anniversary Celebration! They are adding 19 playable games, as well as 8 video interviews into a brand new timeline to the main game. More info: https://atari.com

A second DLC entitled The First Console War will be released globally on November 8, in addition to  a physical release of Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration Expanded Edition on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 5 for $39.99. The physical release contains the original game and both DLCs. 

 

A Steelbook version for Nintendo Switch, which will include Atari 2600 art cards, miniature arcade marquee signs, an Al Alcorn Replica Syzygy Co. business card, will retail for $49.99 USD.

 

Games Included in DLC #1: 
Atari Video Cube (2600)
Avalanche (800)
Avalanche (arcade)
Berzerk (2600 Voice Enhanced)
Berzerk (2600)
Berzerk (5200)
Berzerk (arcade)
Desert Falcon (2600)
Destroyer (arcade)
Football (arcade)
Frenzy (arcade)
Off the Wall (2600)
Red Baron (arcade)
Sky Diver (2600)
Sky Diver (arcade)
Steeplechase (2600)
Stellar Track (2600)
Submarine Commander (2600)
Super Bug (arcade)

Perhaps Atari can offer this expansion pack (I refuse to call it DLC for a myriad of reasons) on GOG. If then I'll buy.

[Johnny Zoltar]

When is it going to release on GOG?

[duzkiss]

We need an Atari St section. Atari has a handful of St titles that are required. Why hasn't it decided to do that?  And there are titles that Atari made from other devices and never made it to an Atari hardware device.

[boog]

I don't think Digital Eclipse has ported an ST emulator, and probably not worth the effort for so few games. Their Llamasoft collection uses the crappy Jaguar conversions for the ST games.

[Hwlngmad]

45 minutes ago, duzkiss said:

We need an Atari St section. Atari has a handful of St titles that are required. Why hasn't it decided to do that?  And there are titles that Atari made from other devices and never made it to an Atari hardware device.

I wish we could have some more love shown to the ST and/or Jaguar.  Not sure if/when/where that will happen, though.

[+jgkspsx]

8 hours ago, boog said:

I don't think Digital Eclipse has ported an ST emulator, and probably not worth the effort for so few games. Their Llamasoft collection uses the crappy Jaguar conversions for the ST games.

What's crappy about them? 👀

[boog]

The llamasoft collection versions are missing some of the sampled audio bits and the sound effects have compressed audio vs the ST originals. Probably memory limitations to make them fit on the Jag? Or licensing of samples? Llamatron 2112 also has some altered enemy sprites, like the coke cans. 'Crappy' may be harsh but definitely a step down from the ST... even though DE advertised them as ST games.

Edited November 6 by boog

[zzip]

23 hours ago, duzkiss said:

We need an Atari St section. Atari has a handful of St titles that are required. Why hasn't it decided to do that?  And there are titles that Atari made from other devices and never made it to an Atari hardware device.

They have said they wanted to do something with ST.

 

But the number of games that Atari published for ST that it still has the rights to is small.   Even the purchase of Accolade and Microprose titles doesn't seem to have added as many ST titles to their portfolio as you might have expected if the recent Atari IP List lists everything.

Edited November 6 by zzip

[+jgkspsx]

6 hours ago, zzip said:

But the number of games that Atari published for ST that it still has the rights to is small.

And the games they own suck. Asteroids de Luxe ST, anyone?

 

Manages to make the 7800 port look like the next generation of home computing.