The retro buzz last week and over the weekend has been focused on Atari and its new compilation celebrating 50 years of the video game company. Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration has wowed reviewers across the board with many commenting on the excellent way the 100 games have been packaged.
Not content to just bundle together many of Atari’s hits over the years, Digital Eclipse, who developed the collection, went many extra miles. From interviews with the developers to high resolution scans of the original box art, the collection is rich with history as well the actual games to play. It is looking to be a must own for retro gamers and has set a new standard in what we should expect from retro compilations going forward.
- Expert Insight Through Storytelling: The collection is outfitted with a handful of various never-before-seen interviews with past-and-present Atari leadership as well as other prolific names in the games industry; complemented, of course, by the video game developers who helped raise Atari to become an industry icon.
- Playable History: The massive selection of over 100 games spans seven different platforms: Arcade, 2600, 5200, 7800, Atari 8-bit computers, and, for the first time ever on modern consoles, Atari Lynx and Jaguar! Play the classics like Tempest 2000, Asteroids, and Yars’ Revenge, or dive into some deeper cuts.
- Reimagined and Revisited: The team at Digital Eclipse created six new games for the collection that reimagines some of the most beloved Atari classics or put a twist on classic game themes, including Haunted House, Neo Breakout, Yars’ Revenge, Vctr Sctr, and the infamously never-finished Airworld.
