Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration Will Soon Welcome 12 New Games in First Official Content Update 🕹️ #Atari #Retrogaming @DigitalEclipse @UberStrategist

Atari and Digital Eclipse Introduce New Experiences to the Award-Winning Interactive Anthology Just In Time for the Holidays

Let the celebrations resume! Today, iconic video game publisher Atari and developer Digital Eclipse reveal a free content update for the interactive anthology experience Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration.

Coming December 5, 2023, this update rings in the holiday season with the addition of 12 fan-favourite Atari 2600 titles from the console’s heyday.

From officially released titles to player-powered homebrews, to once-lost Atari prototypes, Atari 50 shapes up to be the gift that keeps on giving.

Atari is Releasing The First New Atari Game on a Cartridge in 32 Years! 🏃‍♂️ #Retrogaming

Atari is Releasing an Atari 2600 Version of Mr. Run and Jump — The First New Atari Game on a Cartridge in 32 Years

Arcade platforming action returns to its roots with an exciting announcement: the unveiling of an Atari 2600 version of the recently revealed adventure platformer, Mr Run and Jump from Atari. This official release marks a significant milestone steeped in retro history: the first cartridge launch for a new Atari title since 1990!

👾🕹️ Atari Mania | "Well This Looks Bloody great!" 👾🕹️ #Retrogaming #Atari

Microgame mayhem is front and centre as iconic retro publisher Atari today unveils an all-new teaser trailer for its upcoming trek into eras past.

Atari Mania

Atari Mania sees players take on the role of Caretaker of the Atari Vault, the repository for all classic Atari games. 

However, one day, chaos is unleashed as dead pixels suddenly appear in the Vault and begin wreaking havoc.

As showcased in the groovy new teaser trailer, familiar and treasured games begin to warp, mutate and combine into a series of increasingly crazy challenges!

🕹️ Atari - 50 Not Out? 🕹️ #Atari #RetroGaming

So Atari has nearly hit the big 5-0! Here's an insight into what the legendary Atari brand has in store for its 50th year of birth...

🎮🕹️💻 Remembering My Childhood Video Game Store 🎮🕹️💻 #RetroGaming

Sitting down in lockdown 3 watching some rubbish on the TV whilst reading Retro Gamer Magazine late at night I was dreaming of the time when we could walk into shops and browse video games and then my mind wandered off to when I was an 11-year-old boy who would visit LOGIC Computers in Cheshunt Hertfordshire to buy my Atari XE/XL tapes and cartridges for my ATARI XEGS.

🎨🎮 Badly Drawn Video Games Consoles - Cartridges 🎨🎮 #Retrogaming

Well here's more of my bad art as this time I use MS Paint to create an idea I had for an article on Video Games cartridges.

I'll probably use it as inspiration to draw these by hand.

🎨🎮 Badly Drawn Video Games Consoles - 2. Atari 2600 🎨🎮 #Retrogaming #Atari2600

 

Some days I find myself trying to draw stuff in MS Paint and those are the days when I manage to produce BADLY DRAWN VIDEO GAMES CONSOLES!

My plan is to draw as many badly drawn consoles as I can in 2021.

Let's see how far I get...

(The last time I did this was in February 2020, hopefully, I will do more than one per year going forward!)

Rich

🎮🎄 The Best Video Games Console Christmas Presents From 1979 to 2001 🎮🎄 #Retrogaming #GamersUnite

So as we hurtle towards another Christmas in 2020 I thought it would be good to take a look at the best video games related Christmas presents from down the years.

These are either cool machines from when I was alive (I was born in 1979) or they are machines that I was lucky enough to get for Christmas.

My sister got a Pong machine in the early 80s for Christmas and I can barely remember it but after that Christmas, I was always eager for a Christmas video game or a console to be popped into my Christmas stocking.

There was the classic Christmas when I was desperate for a ZX Spectrum +2 but Dad got me an ATARI XEGS but I loved it! 

Christmas is a great time for a gamer as you seem to get that bit of extra downtime to play your new games before your next helping of cold turkey in a roll.

Let's kick off our Christmas look by hurtling back in time to December 1979...

🕹️🧀 Fake Video Game History | Episode 1 | Atari 2600 | "Nolan Bushnell and The Cheese" 🧀🕹️ #RetroGaming

Come join me as I tell some tall tales about video games history over the years.

☆ Video Games Ticklists - #1 - Atari 2600 ☆ #Retrogaming

As an avid video game kinda guy I have always been obsessed with recording my collection of everything video games related.

When I was a proud Atari XEGS owner I would record my video games collection on a TDK 90 cassette tape and load it up onto the screen to view it like it was a secret classified document.

I've used all sorts of methods over the years, but one thing that always works best for me is good old pen and paper.

Specifically, I like to create lovely ticklists for my collections and tick the titles off as I obtain them.

☆ The History Of Soccer Video Games 1979 to 1999 v1.0 ☆ #Retrogaming @Gav_brumwell @gonarchslair

Have you ever wondered how many soccer video games were made during the period of 1979 to 1999 and what exactly those titles were called?

No?

Well I have….

☆ The Original Gamer Achievements & Trophies From The Early Years Of Video games ☆ #Retrogaming

A few weeks ago I stumbled across these awesome Activision Video Gamer Patches that were around in the 80’s @ www.atariage.com

☆ Video Game Hardware Timelines - Atari: 1979 to 1995 ☆ #Retrogaming

I'm a sucker for video games related infographics and recently I have been messing around Inkscape to work out a way to display timelines for Video Games Hardware from the legendary video games companies such as Atari, Nintendo and SEGA.

☆ Ben Steele's Video Games Memories "Karnov & That Damn Duck Hunt Dog!" ☆

When I find myself with uninterrupted time to play video games I always find myself returning to my old classics, games I’ve played hundreds of times even when I have new games not even opened from their wrapping waiting to be played on the latest consoles.

Although I do love new games they just don’t excite me like the old ones.

Is it an age thing?

Is it the memories the games release hidden in the depths of my subconscious or are they just better more enjoyable games?

☆ Say Hello To Mr Atari Himself, LORD ARSE! - Video Games Memories ☆ #Retrogaming @Lord_Arse

Lord Arse is an international video games man of mystery and a retro gaming nut!

His Twitter account has over 100,000 Followers and he posts passionately on a daily basis all things Retro Gaming.

I've followed Mr Arse for a while now and I decided it was time to get to know the man underneath the Atari cap.

Here are some hard-hitting journalistic questions that I put to Lord Arse last week......enjoy some of Lord Arse's Video Games Memories!

☆ A Video Games Genre That Has Almost Died ☆

In an age where we are surrounded by phone apps and websites that promote real money gambling, I have recently been thinking about the more innocent times when digital gambling was only represented by casino type gambling games on video games systems like the SEGA Master System.

☆ The A To Z Of Atari - Y is For ☆ #Retrogaming #GamersUnite

Y is for...........

YARS Revenge

☆ The A To Z Of Atari - Q is For ☆ #Retrogaming #GamersUnite

Q is for.......

sword QUEST

☆ The A To Z Of Atari - O is For ☆ #Retrogaming #GamersUnite

O is for.............

Octopus Operation Outlaw

☆ Atari The Box Art Oil Paintings ☆ #Retrogaming #GamersUnite

Have you ever wanted to see the classic Atari retro gaming cartridge and box art recreated in beautiful oil paintings?

I'm pretty sure I heard you say YES.....

Good, Read On!