Atari 50 The Anniversary Celebration Review (PlayStation 5)

For our Atari 50 The Anniversary Celebration Review we take players on an interactive journey through 50 years of video games, including a specially-curated list of more than 100 playable classics and six entirely new titles from the award-winning team at Digital Eclipse.

Atari 50 The Anniversary Celebration Review Pros:

• All the graphics from 8 Bit to the arcade.
• 11.61GB download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• Collection gameplay that takes in shooters, RPGs, platforms, racing, and more.
• The menu of the game is an interactive timeline that houses images, videos, and games.
• The game library is the shortcut to just the games and can be filtered to year or console.
• Five timelines of the Atari era – Arcade origins, the birth of the console, highs, and lows, the dawn of PCs, and the 1990s and beyond.
• Each timeline has an explored percentage.
• Eight platforms in this collection – Arcade, reimagined, 2600, 5200, 7800, Lynx, 800, and Jaguar.
• All videos have a subtitles toggle option. You can fast-forward and pause the video.
• High res scans of the original game manuals.
• Original images and clippings.
• The timelines are easy to navigate and use.
• A must for all Atari and retro gaming fans.
• High-quality video and voice in the videos.
• They have nailed the paddle games’ sensitivity; you can use the stick or d-pad and tweak the sensitivity should you need to.
• You can launch games from the timeline.
• An excellent mix of games and mini-documentaries laced with beautiful art and promo shots.
• Atari Arcade games –
  • Akka Arrh
    2. Asteroids
    3. Asteroids Deluxe
    4. Black Widow
    5. Breakout
    6. Centipede
    7. Cloak & Dagger
    8. Crystal Castles
    9. Fire Truck
    10. Food Fight
    11. Gravitar
    12. I, Robot
    13. Liberator
    14. Lunar Lande
    15. Major Havoc
    16. Maze Invaders
    17. Millipede
    18. Missile Command
    19. Pong
    20. Quantum
    21. Space Duel
    22. Sprint 8
    23. Super Breakout
    24. Tempest
    25. Warlords
• Atari Reimagined games –
  • 1. Haunted Houses
    2. Neo Breakout
    3. Quadratank
    4. Swordquest: AirWorld
    5. VCTR-SCTR
    6. Yars’ Revenge Enhanced
• Atari 800 games –
  • 1. Bounty Bob Strikes Back!
    2. Caverns of Mars
    3. Food Fight
    4. Miner 2049er
• Atari 2600 games –
  • 1. 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe
    2. Adventure
    3. Air-Sea Battle
    4. Asteroids
    5. Basic Math
    6. Breakout
    7. Canyon Bomber
    8. Centipede
    9. Combat
    10. Combat Two
    11. Crystal Castles
    12. Dark Chambers
    13. Demons to Diamonds
    14. Dodge ‘Em
    15. Fatal Run
    16. Gravitar
    17. Haunted House
    18. Millipede
    19. Miner 2049er
    20. Missile Command
    21. Outlaw
    22. Quadrun
    23. Race 500
    24. RealSports Baseball
    25. RealSports Basketball
    26. RealSports Boxing
    27. RealSports Football
    28. RealSports Soccer
    29. RealSports Tennis
    30. RealSports Volleyball
    31. Saboteur
    32. Secret Quest
    33. Solaris
    34. Super Breakout
    35. Surround
    36. Swordquest: EarthWorld
    37. Swordquest: FireWorld
    38. Swordquest: WaterWorld
    39. Warlords
    40. Yars’ Revenge
• Atari 5200 games –
  • 1. Bounty Bob Strikes Back!
    2. Millipede
    3. Missile Command
    4. Star Raiders (+ Enhanced Version)
    5. Super Breakout
• Atari 7800 games –
  • 1. Asteroids
  • 2. Basketbrawl
  • 3. Centipede
  • 4. Dark Chambers
  • 5. Fatal Run
  • 6. Ninja Golf
  • 7. Scrapyard Dog
• Atari Handheld
  • 1. Touch Me
• Atari Jaguar games –
  • 1. Atari Karts
  • 2. Club Drive
  • 3. Cybermorph
  • 4. Evolution Dino Dudes
  • 5. Fight For Life
  • 6. Missile Command 3D
  • 7. Ruiner Pinball
  • 8. Tempest 2000
  • 9. Trevor McFur In The Crescent Galaxy
• Atari Lynx Games –
  • 1. Basketbrawl
    2. Malibu Bikini Volleyball
    3. Scrapyard Dog
    4. Super Asteroids & Missile Command
    5. Turbo Sub
    6. Warbirds
• Every game has a fast save/load feature.
• Each game, has a screen mode, filter, and border settings.
• Stick settings can be adjusted – Invert the axis and sensitivity sliders and set it as a relative or absolute type.
• Original pong can be played by two players with one controller!
• You can reset games.
• All games can be quit and return you back to the main menu.

Atari 50 The Anniversary Celebration Review Cons:

• No cheats or adjustments are built into any of the games.
• Doesn’t have any online leaderboards.
• U inspiring trophy list with nearly half of them being for one game.
• The set isn’t clear on how to unlock the classified portions of the collection.
• Doesn’t offer any support for the Colourblind.

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Atari 50 The Anniversary Celebration:

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Developer: Digital Eclipse

Publisher: Atari

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