Atari 50 The Anniversary Celebration

  This was originally posted on the 2nd of January, 2024, in this Twitter thread.

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This collection is really cool. If you like hearing about video game history and development, I would highly recommend checking this out because it's an interactive documentary about the history of Atari games and systems.

I don't wanna oversell it and say it's as expansive as you could possibly ever get, but it is really expansive, and there is genuinely a lot of cool stuff to check out. Cool stuff such like flyers for games, magazine ads, video interviews, and full design documents. There's also some prototypes that'd never gotten officially released before, alongside reimaginings/remakes of some games.

The only notable thing I really take any particular issue with is how you have to unlock some of the games. It wasn't really that annoying or time consuming to unlock any of them, but it just felt like it was wasting my time. I feel like it would've at least made a lot more sense if you unlocked stuff just by progressing through the history mode.

Aside from that, I think it does miss out on a pretty notable amount of Atari's history by not really focusing much on licensed games, but I get that would be a huge pain in the ass to include so I can forgive that.

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