With Atari turning 50 this year, the current owner of the brand plans to celebrate it with a collection that brings together five decades of games. Announced today, the aptly named Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration will include more than 90 titles spanning the Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, ST, Jaguar and Lynx. In addition, Atari hired Digital Eclipse, a studio best known for its work on The Disney Afternoon Collection and Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, to oversee the project.
“When it comes to emulating or retrieving classics or doing any kind of remastering or reimagining, I don’t know if there is anyone who does it better than Digital Eclipse, so they were always our first choice,” said Wade Rosen, director Atari’s general. Game Informer.
Atari has not yet shared a full list of games that will appear in the collection, but in addition to many classics, the collection will include six new retro-inspired games. One of them is a 1981 Haunted House sequel to the Atari 2600. Haunted Houses will feature modern 3D voxel-based graphics and new levels for gamers to explore. Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration will cost $ 40 when it arrives later this year on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, PC and Atari VCS.
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