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So, if you do decide to take the plunge and start an Atari 5200 collection, be sure to target these games. This would-be library has nothing to do with rarity or any of that obsessive stuff. These ...
It may be nearly 40 years old, but the Atari 5200 still inspires legions of fans to relive the 8-bit glory days of their youth. There was much to love about the game console, but the joystick-and ...
Publisher Atari and developer Digital Eclipse have announced Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration downloadable content “The Namco Legendary Pack.” It will launch in 2025 for $7.99.
The Anniversary Celebration takes players on an interactive journey through Atari’s rich and colorful history through more than 80 classic games.
Atari will sell a $5 Atari Vault 2 bundle that includes Atari 5200 games. The VCS connects to an online digital storefront that peddles both Atari classics and newer titles.
Released in 1982, the Atari 5200 SuperSystem was Atari's long-awaited follow-up to its legendary Atari 2600 console. Finicky controllers and a game library of barely warmed-over arcade rehashes ...
This tendency toward contextualizing Atari’s games extends throughout the compilation. If you want to just jump right to a list of the playable included games, you can do that. (It’s a curated ...
It may be nearly 40 years old, but the Atari 5200 still inspires legions of fans to relive the 8-bit glory days of their youth. There was much to love about the game console, but the joystick-and-k… ...
No Atari coin-op was as big as Space Invaders, or Namco’s Pac-Man (1980), Ms. Pac-Man (1981), or Nintendo’s Donkey Kong (1981)—the first hit games with mascots, a concept Atari missed out on.
Atari could set this wrong to right by issuing a “Best of 5200” games cartridge with compatible pins or even support a cartridge adapter. But we wouldn’t bet our “Revenge of the Jedi” T ...
Atari's new, adorable The400 Mini ($119.99) emulates the entire range of Atari 8-bit computers, from the 400 and 800 through the XL and XE lines, plus 1982’s 5200 SuperSystem and the 1987 XE ...