Atari VCS Console Launches June 15, Includes 100 Classic Atari Games

Atari VCS Console Launches June 15, Includes 100 Classic Atari Games

Atari’s new console is finally releasing, and it’s coming very soon.

Atari VCS / 2600 | The Console that Launched an Industry


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Atari Staff Photo – ALLAN ALCORN / COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM
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Few systems can say they changed or created an industry. The Atari VCS is one of them, and this is the story of how it came to be and what became of it following the North American Video Game Crash.
Thank you to Neil for loaning his 2600 collection to The Cave.

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Crystalline Lens 1 – Gunnar Johnsén
Follow The Tracks – Mochas
Not Even In Dreams – Chaxti
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Vivid Space 1 – Daniel Gunnarsson

Atari VCS – Official Launch Trailer


The Atari VCS is a retro-inspired, completely modern video computer entertainment system available now.

Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration – Everything We Know So Far! @Atari


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 first 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 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-resolution original artwork, and a specially-curated list of more than 90 playable games.

At the heart of Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration are the Interactive Timelines, which combine historical trivia, digital artifacts, all-new video interviews, and playable games into one singular experience. When you encounter a game in the Timeline, you can immediately play it without losing your place.

The massive list of games spans six original Atari console and home computer platforms and generations of arcade titles, the most ever included in a collection by the team at Digital Eclipse. For the first time ever, games from the cult favorite Atari Jaguar and Atari Lynx platforms will be playable on modern consoles. 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 on which they ran, all 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.

In addition to presenting these Atari classics exactly as they were, the talented team at Digital Eclipse has also created the Reimagined series—six new games that revisit, mash-up and reimagine Atari Classics. Each of these new games is included in Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration.

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0:00 Hanging with Genny
1:05 Double Meaning
1:30 Features
3:03 Video Segments
3:30 The Games
4:08 Swordquest: Airworld
4:51 Quadratank
5:29 Haunted Houses
5:55 VCTR-SCTR
6:30 Neo Breakout
7:08 Yars’ Revenge Reimagined

The Atari VCS One Year Later – Should you Buy One?


The Atari VCS is the latest attempt by Atari to re-enter the gaming space. When it was first announced as the Atari Box in early 2018, gamers were skeptical that the device would even come to market. In December 2020 the Atari VCS landed in the hands of Indigogo backers and in March of 2021 it was available on store shelves and digital marketplaces like Best Buy, GameStop and Microcenter.
Now we are at the start of 2022 and I go over my experience with the Atari console /PC hybrid and let you know if it is worth the $300-400 asking price.

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