Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen OC_Formula for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, November 13 (Xinhua)-- Atari, the world's most iconic game brand, generation game hegemon and founder of the "Great crash", announced its 50th anniversary and launched the 50th anniversary celebration game "Atari 50: anniversary Celebration (Atari 50:The Anniversary Celebration)" to commemorate 50 years of success, growth and progress in the video game industry.

"Atari 50: anniversary Celebration" is now available on Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X | S, PlayStation 4swap 5 and Windows PC. The price of Steam Mall is 116 yuan.

According to reports, the core of Atari 50: anniversary Celebration is an interactive timeline, which combines historical trivia, digital artifacts, more than 60 minutes of interviews, documentary clips and playable games into a cohesive experience.

Players can experience more than 100 games in "Atari 50: anniversary Celebration" across seven different platforms: arcade, 2600, 5200, 7800, Atari 8-bit computer, Jaguar and Lynx, play to the classic "Tempest 2000", "Asteroids" and "Aars Vengeance", and learn about the developer's game creation process and running hardware.

In addition, "Atari 50: anniversary Celebration" includes six new games, namely "Swordquest: AirWorld", "Haunted Houses", "VCTR-SCTR", "Neo Breakout", "Quadratank" and "Yars' Revenge Reimagined".

CTOnews.com has learned that Atari has been owned by a number of entities since it was founded in 1972 and is now owned by Atari Interactive (Atari Interactive, Inc.), a subsidiary of French game publisher SA (formerly Inberg). The original Atari, Inc., founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in Sunnyvale, California in 1972, was an early pioneer of arcades, home video game consoles and home computers.

▲ Atari 5200 game console Atari also has a profound impact on game history. In 1983, Atari paid a high price for the rights to the film "E. T" and adapted it into a game. The whole production process took only six weeks, which caused a flood of criticism and Atari was spun off. The incident coincided with the Great Depression of the American gaming industry, which ended the second generation of the video game market, forced some North American video game development companies to declare bankruptcy, and had a far-reaching impact on the game market in the United States and Canada, also known as the Atari crash (Atari Shock).

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