Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration

Expand the Celebration with two DLC Packs!

Atari and developer Digital Eclipse are excited to share a significant addition to Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration with two all new DLC content packs: The Wider World of Atari and The First Console War.

Each pack offers 19 additional games as well as a new interactive timeline, featuring more exclusive interviews, historical artifacts, and context for the games themselves. See more details about each DLC and their release dates below:

DLC 1: The Wider World of Atari

Release Date: 09/26/2024

The story’s not over yet! THE WIDER WORLD OF ATARI introduces a new timeline with more games, historical artifacts and video interviews that explore the creation of Atari games.

Features:

• 19 new games including Berzerk, Atari Football (the first Trak-ball game), and underappreciated gems of the 2600 library

• New timeline with eight new video segments, including: Al Alcorn’s story on the creation of Breakout, the search for rare prototype games, and a spotlight on artist Evelyn Seto, who helped create the famous Atari Fuji logo

DLC 2: The First Console War

Release Date: 11/08/2024

It’s about to go down! Well before the current day console wars dominated social media and message boards, Atari's VCS and Intellivision collided in the first major video game rivalry in 1979.

Features:

• 19 new games including several rare M Network prototypes available here for the first time

• New timeline video interviews with M Network programmer Jane Terjung, Activision’s David Crane & Garry Kitchen, homebrew programmer Dennis Debro, and historians Leonard Herman & Mike Mika

Players can also acquire both DLC packs through the following methods:

Atari 50: Expanded Edition DLC Bundle includes immediate access to DLC 1 and will grant access to DLC 2 upon its release.

Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration Digital Expanded Edition includes the full Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration game plus the Expanded Edition DLC Bundle.

About the Game

Join the celebration! Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration takes you on an interactive journey through 50 years of video games.

At the heart of Atari 50 are the Interactive Timelines, which combine historical trivia, digital artifacts, over 60 minutes of new interviews, documentary footage, and playable games into one cohesive experience. When you encounter a game in the Timelines, you can immediately play it without losing your place.

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.

Behind every game are the stories of Atari, what was happening at the company, and what went into the creation of the games and the hardware on which they ran, all told by the people who were there.

Also includes six new games:

• Swordquest: AirWorld – Yes, you read that right: After nearly 40 years of waiting, the team at Digital Eclipse has created a new entry in the legendary Swordquest series, inspired by the design concepts of original Swordquest creator Tod Frye. Who will be the first to solve its mysteries – and finally complete the quest?

• Haunted Houses – The original “survival horror” game for the Atari 2600 gets a modern 3D voxel-based sequel, featuring more houses, more spooky situations, and more urns.

• VCTR-SCTR – This mashup celebration of the vector era of gaming combines the gameplay from Asteroids, Tempest, and other vector-based arcade classics into a single, continuous challenge.

• Neo Breakout – An amazing and addictive two-player competition that combines the best features of Breakout and Pong, with a modern graphic style

• 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.

• Yars’ Revenge Reimagined – The Atari 2600 masterpiece gets a whole new look. Swap between original and modern graphics at any time!