Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration Expended Steelbook Edition SWITCH
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Atari and developer Digital Eclipse are proud to present a significant expansion of their acclaimed 2022 release, Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration. This new version, titled "Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration – Expanded Edition" includes the original version and adds two new timelines as well as 39 games to Atari's playable retrospective.
Description
Discover Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration Expended Steelbook Edition on Nintendo Switch!
The “The Wider World of Atari” timeline , which includes 19 playable games and eight video segments, dives deep into the stories of Atari's history, showing how Atari has continued to influence creators and fans throughout decades. New interviews, vintage advertisements, historical artifacts, and more have been researched and presented with Digital Eclipse's signature style.
Highlights of the new timeline include an in-depth exploration of Stern Electronics' robot-blasting Berzerk ; unusual and underappreciated innovations and hidden gems from the late 1980s ; a spotlight on artist Evelyn Seto, who helped create Atari's iconic "Fuji" logo; Al Alcorn, the creator of Pong, explaining how Breakout came to be; and an exploration of the role of fans in discovering unpublished prototypes, creating "homebrew" games, and preserving Atari history.
The "The First Console War" timeline , which includes 20 playable games and half a dozen video segments, tells the story of the first major console war in the video game industry between the Atari 2600 and the Intellivision from Mattel. From the Digital Eclipse team comes an exploration of the rivalry, including Mattel's quixotic decision to make 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, as well as some rare prototypes of the Atari 2600 and 5200 . New interviews 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 expanded Expanded Steelbook Edition will include the following exclusive items:
Expanded Edition Steelbook
3 Atari arcade marquee miniatures
3 double-sided premium art cards from Atari 2600 games
Replica of Al Alcorn's business card
All contents packaged in a collector's sheath
UIE EDITOR
GENRE Shoot 'Em Up, Arcade
SUPPORT Video game on cartridge
PLATFORM Nintendo Switch
AUDIO in English
TEXTS in English, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese
PEGI AGE RATING 16
Features
An expanded retrospective on the history of video games
Now with over 140 classic games lovingly presented with best-in-class emulation and modern quality of life improvements – and the ability to play classic games that haven't been available for ages.
Learn about the brand that launched the modern video game industry and the creative individuals behind it through interviews, archival footage, special source material, and behind-the-scenes content in an interactive timeline . Also explore the history of iconic brands like Mattel's Intellivision and Stern Electronics!
Game emulation, recently recovered and unreleased prototypes, and other rare gems created for seven hardware platforms: Arcade, Atari 800, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Atari Jaguar, Atari Lynx.
Over 13 new exclusive interview segments with key players in the games industry, including archival and contemporary interviews with employees, first and third party programmers and artists, historians, fans and homebrew developers!
An expanded retrospective on the history of video games , essential for collectors and fans of video games