Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration, or Atari 50, is a video game compilation and interactive documentary about the history of Atari that comprises newly shot interviews with former Atari employees, archival footage, emulated games from the company’s catalog, and six new games inspired by Atari classics. The game is available on all of the latest major video game consoles including Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PlayStation and PC.
The main feature of the game is an interactive timeline that lays out the history of the company and its game products in an intuitive way. The best part is on new reimagined version of games, you can easily toggle back and forth between classic and reimagined version. That’s totally awesome!
Here is the list of all the games included in Atari 50.
Game (Platform) – How to Unlock
• 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe (2600)
• Adventure (2600)
• Air-Sea Battle (2600)
• Akka Arrh (Arcade)
• Asteroids (2600)
• Asteroids (7800)
• Asteroids (Arcade)
• Asteroids Deluxe (Arcade)
• Atari Karts (Jaguar)
• Basic Math (2600) – Haunted Houses: On the second floor of the tutorial level Graves Academy, after collecting the first piece of the urn, keep moving to the right when you come to the lift to the third floor. You’ll find a question mark saying this is a dead end, but you’ll also see the word TEST on the wall to the left. Stand on the mat in front of this room’s door and you will be teleported into the classroom itself. Locate the test and submit it to the desk at the back of the classroom to unlock Basic Math for the Atari 2600. You’ll be reminded to pick up the urn piece on your way out.
• Basketbrawl (7800)
• Basketbrawl (Lynx)
• Black Widow (Arcade)
• Bounty Bob Strikes Back! (800)
• Bounty Bob Strikes Back! (5200)
• Breakout (2600) – Neo Breakout: Complete level 6 (the wall of bricks with the question mark) to unlock Breakout 2600.
• Breakout (Arcade)
• Canyon Bomber (2600)
• Caverns of Mars (800)
• Centipede (2600)
• Centipede (7800)
• Centipede (Arcade)
• Cloak & Dagger (Arcade)
• Club Drive (Jaguar)
• Combat (2600)
• Combat Two (2600) – Quadratank: Set up a Capture the Flag match on Map 2, the brown terrain. Collect 5 long-range powerups for your tank. Shoot and steer a rocket to trace a circle around the Atari logo at the center of the playfield. You can set the Weapons to Rockets & Lasers to begin with a rocket launcher.
• Crystal Castles (2600)
• Crystal Castles (Arcade)
• Cybermorph (Jaguar)
• Dark Chambers (2600)
• Dark Chambers (7800)
• Demons to Diamonds (2600)
• Dodge ‘Em (2600)
• Evolution Dino Dudes (Jaguar)
• Fatal Run (2600)
• Fatal Run (7800)
• Fight For Life (Jaguar)
• Fire Truck (Arcade)
• Food Fight (800)
• Food Fight (Arcade)
• Gravitar (2600) – VCTR-SCTR: On Wave 3, during the Asteroids section, enemy ships from Gravitar may randomly appear instead of the usual flying saucer. Destroy both ships to unlock Gravitar 2600.
• Gravitar (Arcade)
• Haunted House (2600)
• Haunted Houses (Reimagined)
• I, Robot (Arcade)
• Liberator (Arcade)
• Lunar Lander (Arcade)
• Major Havoc (Arcade)
• Malibu Bikini Volleyball (Lynx)
• Maze Invaders (Arcade)
• Millipede (2600)
• Millipede (Arcade)
• Millipede (5200)
• Miner 2049er (2600)
• Miner 2049er (800)
• Missile Command (2600)
• Missile Command (Arcade)
• Missile Command (5200)
• Missile Command 3D (Jaguar)
• Neo Breakout (Reimagined)
• Ninja Golf (7800)
• Outlaw (2600)
• Pong (Arcade)
• Quadratank (Reimagined)
• Quadrun (2600)
• Quantum (Arcade)
• Race 500 (2600) – Timeline: Interact with every element on all timelines. When an item has been visited, its icon background changes from black to white, marked by an radial explosion animation. Your percentage progress is shown on the menu screen. Note that you must click on and briefly view each game, picture, and other items to get “credit” for them.
• RealSports Baseball (2600)
• RealSports Basketball (2600)
• RealSports Boxing (2600)
• RealSports Football (2600)
• RealSports Soccer (2600)
• RealSports Tennis (2600)
• RealSports Volleyball (2600)
• Ruiner Pinball (Jaguar)
• Saboteur (2600)
• Scrapyard Dog (7800)
• Scrapyard Dog (Lynx)
• Secret Quest (2600)
• Solaris (2600)
• Space Duel (Arcade)
• Sprint 8 (Arcade)
• Star Raiders (5200)
• Super Asteroids & Missile Command (Lynx)
• Super Breakout (2600)
• Super Breakout (Arcade)
• Super Breakout (5200)
• Surround (2600)
• Swordquest: AirWorld (Reimagined)
• Swordquest: EarthWorld (2600)
• Swordquest: FireWorld (2600)
• Swordquest: WaterWorld (2600)
• Tempest (Arcade)
• Tempest 2000 (Jaguar)
• Touch Me (Reimagined)
• Trevor McFur In The Crescent Galaxy (Jaguar)
• Turbo Sub (Lynx)
• VCTR-SCTR (Reimagined)
• Warlords (2600)
• Warlords (Arcade)
• Yars’ Revenge (2600)
• Yars’ Revenge Enhanced (Reimagined)
• Yoomp! (800)
Atari website description:
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration takes 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
At the heart of The Anniversary Celebration are Interactive Timelines, which combine trivia, all-new interviews with the original developers and industry leaders, and playable games into one singular experience.
Play extremely rare titles from the Atari Jaguar and Lynx platforms, 8-bit computers and 7800, 5200 and 2600 consoles.
