Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration

Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration takes players on an interactive journey through 50 years of video games via interviews with designers, developers and industry leaders, documentary footage, product design documents, high-res original artwork, and a curated list of more than 90 playable games.

Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration is a retro, 1980s and shoot 'em up game developed by Digital Eclipse and published by Atari.
Released on November 11th 2022 is available only on Windows in 6 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain and Japanese.

It has received 379 reviews of which 352 were positive and 27 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 33.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration into these genres:

Retro 1980s Shoot 'Em Up Education Arcade PvP 2D Local Multiplayer Historical Exploration Action Controller Narration Software Voxel Casual Colorful Pixel Graphics Score Attack Stylized

Media & Screenshots

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 (64-bit Required)
Processor: Intel i3 @ 3.0GHz or AMD equivalent.
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series, Nvidia GeForce 8800GT or greater
Storage: 12 GB available space

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Jan. 2025

An excellent digital museum of Atari's history. It features interviews from Atari engineers and developers that provide a lot of insight and context to the early years of video game history. On top of that, it includes a plethora of high quality photos, comics, schematics and posters that showcase the development and evolution of Atari's technology and the ever changing demands placed upon the designers, engineers and artists. There are also 90+ playable games from arcade cabinets, 2600, 5200, 7800, Jaguar and Lynx. While there are some extremely prominent titles such as Battlezone I would have liked to see included, the licensing hell the developers of Atari 50 already have to navigate makes their exclusion understandable. Atari 50 is a bit of a strange piece of software, the type of which I haven't really seen since 90s encyclopedia CDs, but I recommend it to anyone with an interest in the pioneering years of video games.

Nov. 2024

Ah, my childhood comes back to me. Not only do we have the arcade games that took untold number of quarters from me, but the 2600, 5200, 7800, and other Atari systems that I never was able to experience! With the recent additions of certain third-party games, this has just made me all the happier. The only thing now is for Atari (or the company that owns them) to get the rights to the Activision, Imagic, and other third-party games to truly bring me back to the simpler days of my youth. For now, I'm very happy, and I fully encourage the younger generation to look into this, not only for the entertainment, but for the history that led to the games you know and love now in the 21st centuery.

Nov. 2024

I posted a recommendation to improve their "Lunar Lander" game, and they implemented it!! Now, you can put in quarters while playing to add fuel, like we used to back in University. It's left-shift, btw. You're welcome, Lunar Lander fans!! #AtariListens

Sept. 2024

I'm lucky enough to have been a youngster who experienced the dawn of video games ( I remember queues of people waiting to play Space Invaders, Pacman and Galaxian, and was fortunate to have parents who thought the Grandstand video console would rock my world - how right they were!). Now as a middle aged man I feel lucky again to have Digital Eclipse and Atari take me back to my childhood. Rose tinted glasses? A big ol' pint glass of nostalgia? Sure, why not. Because progress, boys and girls, ain't all that.. gaming today has lost the magic of anticipation, the unknown, the sheer delight of coming back from a store with a physical copy of a game you saved your pocket money for months for.. My first exposure to Atari was my friend's 2600 VCS - we played Decathlon/Space Invaders/Donkey Kong for A WHOLE WEEKEND, and I'm talking 7am to 9pm for 2 days solid! I can't tell you how happy I am that projects like Atari 50 exist, because the current climate of video game rights and live service delivery mean that the sacred art of video gaming will be lost to the dusty ether of cloud storage history.. I know, I know, I'm typing this on Steam which could be regarded as one of the biggest obstacles to gaming preservation, but I'm only a member here because of a little game called Half Life 2 which arrived at a difficult time in my life and renewed my faith in digital storytelling and the power of video games.. If there's one thing I would suggest that might remind GenZ that video games didn't start with Zelda or Call of Duty, it would be to insist that all current and new coders (regardless of whether they work at Microsoft or Nintendo or Electronic Arts or Rockstar or Ubisoft or Epic or an independent studio etc.) are required to code a game as a homebrew 2600 project.. that could be the great leveller Peace Out Friends

Sept. 2024

Really solid package but I wish we got more interviews. Going through 50 years of Atari and being able to try these old games along the way and listening to the stories of how it all happened was very enjoyable. Welcome back, Atari!

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