Английская Википедия:Atari 50
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Atari 50 (subtitled The Anniversary Celebration) is a video game compilation and interactive documentary about the history of Atari. It comprises newly shot interviews with former Atari employees, archival footage, emulated games from the company's catalog, and six new games inspired by past Atari games. It was developed by Digital Eclipse and released on Atari VCS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S in 2022, the 50th anniversary of Atari's founding. The main feature of the game is a four-part interactive timeline that lays out the history of the company and its products through, video, scanned artifacts and related games.Шаблон:Sfn
Critics have compared Atari 50 favorably to a museum or traditional documentary.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn They praised its thoroughness and hoped other developers would receive a similar treatment.Шаблон:Sfn Digital Eclipse later announced that they would be producing more "interactive documentary" compilations in the style of Atari 50 under the Gold Master Series with The Making of Karateka in August 2023 and an overview of the games of Jeff Minter.
Content
Atari 50 compiles 109 video games made for arcades and stand-alone handhelds as well as game consoles Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit computers, Atari 7800, Atari Lynx and Atari Jaguar.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn[1] Each of the original games is given a single save state, controls can be remapped, and a CRT-like filter can be enabled, while bezels recreate art and fill out the wide screen.Шаблон:Sfn Some games feature further enhancements, such as Star Raiders which has overlays that show player status and rumble effects when entering hyperspace.Шаблон:Sfn
Six new "Atari Reimagined" games have been created for the collection by Digital Eclipse staff.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn These games are updated version of Atari's games, such as Yars' Revenge Reimainged which reuses to the code of the game with more special effects and audio while VCTR-SCTR is a completely new game inspired by vector graphics games like Asteroids, Lunar Lander, Battlezone, Speed Freak, and Tempest.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
The game has a interactive timeline presenting the history of Atari.Шаблон:Sfn It is split into five categories: "Arcade Origins", "Birth of the Console", "Highs and Lows", "The Dawn of PCs", and "The 1990s and Beyond".Шаблон:Sfn Each section involves the Atari's origin in the 1970s, their first home console released in the 1970s, Atari just before and after the video game crash of 1983, their home computer line and their console releases in the 1990s.Шаблон:Sfn
The timeline includes archival material such as design documents, game manuals, context for games and contemporary quotes about them along with video interviews with game creators.Шаблон:Sfn Atari employees and former employees are interviewed in the collection including Allan Alcorn, Owen Rubin, David Crane, Jerry Jessop, Bill Rehbock, Tod Frye, Eugene Jarvis, Howard Scott Warshaw, Nolan Bushnell and Wade Rosen, as well as other members of the game industry such as Cliff Bleszinski, Tim Schafer, and Ed Fries.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The games included can also be browsed through a list as in most retro collections.Шаблон:Sfn
Development
Stephen Frost, producer of Atari 50, that as there has been several compilation titles of Atari games, it was important to expand on it in a new release that would give the story for the company and how their hardware influenced both the arcade and video game industries. This led to Digital Eclipse to develop with an interactive timeline which presents, text, images, video footage and playable games to form a narrative.Шаблон:Sfn The engineers at Digital Eclipse built a system that allows them to add material in a timeline without extensive programming.Шаблон:Sfn
Some games could not be included with the release as Atari no long had the rights to them such the arcade games like Marble Madness (1984), S.T.U.N. Runner (1989), San Francisco Rush: Extreme Racing (1996) whose rights belonged to Warner Bros. following the bankruptcy of Midway which had previously had the rights to Atari Games. Other games that were not able to be included were titles attached to other licenses such as the arcade game Star Wars (1983), the Atari Jaguar game Alien vs Predator (1994), and the Atari 2600 game Raiders of the Lost Ark (1982).Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Frost explained that processes were started on getting permission to include certain titles and art assets for other games for the systems which was allowed for games like Yoomp!. Some initial work was made to create an emulator for the Atari ST line of computers, but halted when Frost concluded that there wasn't enough resources required to complete the emulator to the quality required.Шаблон:Sfn
Programmer Dave Rees said that a few games for the Atari 2600 required unique emulation. This included Secret Quest which uses the switch to display a code-entry status screen. This game required unique code to get it to toggle with a press of a button.Шаблон:Sfn Rich Whitehouse created the Atari Jaguar emulator and found it particularly challenging. Whitehouse stated that there wasn't a lot of documentation for the system's hardware, and what documentation did exist had inaccuracies or was missing information. Whitehouse stated that getting the system to run smoothly on the Nintendo Switch "ended up being its own challenge."Шаблон:Sfn
Digital Eclipse created new games for the compilation based on Atari properties and individual members' interests and expertise.Шаблон:Sfn These six new games are under the Atari Reimagined label. These include Haunted Houses, Neo Breakout, Quadratrank, Swordquest: AirWorld, VCTR-SCTR (pronounced "Vector Sector") and Yars' Revenge Reimagined.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Swordquest: AirWorld was developed by Dave Rees as an attempt to make a final game in the Swordquest series of games and had consulted Tod Frye, who had worked on developing the game in the 1980s on what the new version would be. Yars' Revenge Reimainged was developed by Mike Mika. The game adds more effects and audio to the original game. VCTR-SCTR is a completely new game inspired by vector graphics by Jeremy Williams. Williams wrote his own software renderer that let him model vertices in a 3D space and connect them to form wireframes.Шаблон:Sfn [2] Haunted Houses was also developed by Rees and featured 3D and features voxel-based graphics.Шаблон:Sfn The remaining games, Neo-Breakout and Quadratank were developed by Jason Cirillo and Mika respectively.[2]
Digital Eclipse gathered video footage from The Strong, the National Videogame Museum and the Museum of Videogame Art and private collectors to include in the release. The game's editorial director Chris Kohler said that there was no shortage of footage to draw from but stated that they had to whittle the content down to what was important for the narrative.Шаблон:Sfn All archival footage is captured from original sources. Commercials for Atari were provided by Hans Reutter, including a film scan of the Atari advertisement which ran theatrically.Шаблон:Sfn
List of games
There are 114 games available in the collection.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Reception
Atari 50 was released on November 11, 2022 on the Atari VCS, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn It garnered "generally favorable reviews", according to review aggregator site Metacritic.[11][12][13][14]
Critics complimented the release's timeline structure. with Sammy Barker of Push Square proclaiming the timeline to be introspective and interesting and that the Atari's history that was shown as a "warts and all perspective, which is appreciated"Шаблон:Sfn Andrew Webster of The Verge echoed this, stating that without the timeline structure he would have played these games "for a few minutes and then moved on; with it, I'm much more invested in understanding what they are and how they fit into gaming history, and I know what to look for when I dive in."Шаблон:Sfn Matt Gardner of Forbes discussed the documentary footage in the timeline, stating that the former Atari employees certainly show pride in their past work and also expressed appreciation of the examinations of the highs and lows of the company, finding that it "knows when to fight its corner–like declaring the Atari Lynx was underappreciated–but the game doesn't pull its punches, whether that's criticizing business decisions, former CEOs, games, advertising campaigns, or minor things like how crap the Atari 400's keyboard was."Шаблон:Sfn Samuel Claiborn of IGN desired that more people could be involved in the documentaries such as the prominent women developers, Atari's art and marketing departments as well as decades of journalists, historians and collectors could have added further context.Шаблон:Sfn
Many reviewers commented that many of the games included have not aged well.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn A reviewer in Edge specifically highlighted the Arcade releases as having both quantity and quality while the Atari 2600 games have held up less well and that the selection of Lynx and Jaguar games were mostly curiosities.Шаблон:Sfn Shaun Musgrave of TouchArcade expanded on this stating that "not every game here is good, of course. But there's something interesting about each of them. Even the familiar old arcade and 2600 games that have been endlessly re-released can be appreciated a little more with the extra info attached in this collection."Шаблон:Sfn Webster complimented the variations on games, allowing audiences to compare games like Dark Chambers and Scrapyard Dog on different systems.Шаблон:Sfn
Claiborn found that some games had better ways to be played due the nature of the original hardware such as CentipedeШаблон:'s trackball, TempestШаблон:' spinner controls, and the controllers of the Atari 7800 and Jaguar controllers but found that other games, such as the Atari 2600, controlled better due the quality of the original systems control stick.Шаблон:Sfn Edge magaze, Barker, Massey and Musgrave lamented some historically important games missing such as early titles like Computer Space (1971), Firefox (1984), one of the first Laserdisc-driven arcade games, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) or any games for Atari ST computers.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Graham Russel of SiliconEra also commented that the release lacked any discussion of Atari's history or products released between 1998 and 2020 such as the Atari Flashback series.Шаблон:Sfn
Both Gardner and Webster declared Atari 50 to be among the best compilation video game titles released.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Massey compared the compilation to the Capcom Arcade Stadium (2021), finding that the title "comes with pretty 3D-rendered gimmickry that resembles an actual arcade, but lacks the internal warmth exuded [on Atari 50]."Шаблон:Sfn Jason Fanelli of Game Informer declared it had set a new standard for a future historical video game compilations.Шаблон:Sfn
Legacy
In 2023, Digital Eclipse announced they would adapt the historical timeline format used in Atari 50 into other projects, under the Gold Master Series branding. Kohler stated that the audience immediately picked up the idea of going through a timeline within Atari 50 and following the history, which gave the team at Digital Eclipse the confidence to continue with the format. The first Gold Master Series release was The Making of Karateka (2023), which chronicled the history of Karateka (1984) and a future release overviewing the games of Jeff Minter.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Atari announced on October 31, 2023 that they would acquire Digital Eclipse.Шаблон:Sfn Atari closed the deal by November 6, 2023.[15] A free update to the collection on December 5, 2023 added 12 additional games, including two unreleased prototypes (Aquaventure and Save Mary), two homebrew 2600 games featured in previous compilations[3]Шаблон:Sfn (Adventure II, Return to Haunted House), and eight official titles (Bowling, Circus Atari, Double Dunk, Maze Craze, Miniature Golf, MotoRodeo, Super Football, and Warbirds).Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
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