Atari 50: The Anniversary Celeb. Steelbook Ed. Nintendo SWITCH
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Atari celebrates its 50th anniversary, and with it the spark that launched the modern video game industry.
Description
Discover Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration Steelbook Edition on Nintendo Switch!
It’s been five decades since a small team in Silicon Valley combined their creativity, curiosity, and passion to create video games and hardware. The result of their efforts was Atari, one of the most recognizable and enduring entertainment and pop culture brands in the world.
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration is an interactive journey through 50 years of video games through interviews with designers, developers and industry leaders, documentary footage, product design documents and of course, over 100 playable games.
At the heart of the 50th Anniversary Collection is a curated list of over 100 games spanning seven different hardware platforms—a true feat of emulation by the team at Digital Eclipse. Behind each game are the stories of Atari, what was going on at the company, what went into making the games, and the hardware they ran on, told by the people who were there. It’s a rare opportunity to get a rich, behind-the-scenes look at video game history.
The talented team at Digital Eclipse has also created six new games that revisit, mix and rethink Atari Classics.
Airworld: Yes, the team at Digital Eclipse has created the fourth chapter in the never-ending Swordquest series: Airworld.
Haunted House: A modern 3D isometric adventure based on the classic original.
Vctr Sctr: A celebration of the vector era of gaming that combines gameplay from a variety of vector arcade classics into one challenge.
Neo Breakout: An incredible and addictive two-player competition that combines the best parts of Breakout and Pong.
Yars Revenge Reimagined: Modern graphics, the best-selling first-party Atari 2600 game of all time.
Quadratank: The first new entry in the classic Tank series since 1978 combines features from the original games with four-player fun in team or free-for-all modes.
Atari 50: Steelbook Edition is a limited collector's edition that includes the game housed in an exclusive gold and black Steelbook, and includes an exclusive poster created just for the celebratory occasion.
PUBLISHER Atari
DEVELOPER Digital Eclipse
GENRE Interactive museum experience and compilation of classic games
SUPPORT Video game on cartridge
Nintendo Switch PLATFORM
AUDIO in English
TEXTS in French, English, Italian, German, Spanish
PEGI AGE RATING 16
Features
A retrospective on the history of video games
Over 100 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.
Discover the brand that launched the modern video game industry and the creators behind it through interviews, archival footage, special sources and behind-the-scenes content in an interactive timeline.
Emulation of games created for seven hardware platforms: Arcade, Atari 800, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Atari Jaguar, Atari Lynx.
Over 60 minutes of exclusive interviews with key players in the video game industry, including Atari's early designers and engineers and other video game luminaries, as they discuss Atari's lasting impact on the video entertainment landscape.
A retrospective on the history of video games that is essential for collectors and video game fans.