Atari is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and with it the spark that launched the modern video game industry. It has been five decades since a small team in Silicon Valley combined their creativity, curiosity and passion into making 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, more than 80 playable games.
At the heart of the 50th Anniversary Collection is a curated list of over 80 games that span seven different hardware platforms – a true feat of emulation by the team at Digital Eclipse. Behind every game are the stories of Atari, what was happening at the company, what went into the creation of the games and the hardware they ran on … told by the people who were there. It is a rare opportunity to get a rich, behind the scenes look at the history of video games.
Atari and Bandai Namco have announced a new DLC for Atari 50, titled The Namco Connection.
This expansion tells the story of the early partnership between the two companies and will be available later this year for $7.99 USD.
The Namco Connection will feature the best-selling PAC-MAN for Atari 2600, along with a collection of titles from the Atari 2600, Atari 5200 and Atari 7800, including GALAGA, DIG DUG, XEVIOUS and GALAXIAN.
Players can jump straight into any game or explore the collection chronologically through an interactive timeline featuring developer interviews, archival documents, photos from the era and more.
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And, as fitting for the brand so closely associated with the development of the Easter Egg, you can unlock hours of additional content and games as you progress through the collection.
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration is available for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Series X|S, PS4, PS5 and PC (Steam / Epic Games) at $39.99.
