Atari has actually made some dubious attempts to profit from its console gaming legacy over the previous years or two, yet Atari Mania does not seem among them. Announced on Thursday, the Windows COMPUTER game is a collection of minigames that mash up staples of the Atari 2600 collection, done in the name of historic conservation.
In the news trailer over, I see callbacks to Outlaw, Yars’ Revenge, Breakout, Combat, Circus Atari, Warlords, and also Adventure, all offered in an upgraded, pixelated design. (Instead of the 2600’s … what, 4-bit graphics?) The minigames are a mix of the timeless titles’ personalities and also gameplay– as an example, making use of a Pong paddle to combat off the pests in Centipede.
There’s also a tale twisting around every one of this: “You are the Caretaker of the Atari Vault, the storehouse of classic Atari games,” claims the promotion duplicate. “One night, a dead pixel appears and soon enough, all heck breaks loose!!”
Atari Mania guarantees greater than 150 of these microgames when it releases on Steam later on this summertime. And if the intro is any kind of sign, there must be Easter eggs, deep cuts, and also scheming referrals aplenty– including what the Adventure traveler would certainly appear like if they weren’t, you recognize, a yellow block.
.Source: Polygon
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