Atari is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary in taste with a $999.99 collectible boxset that includes 10 Atari 2600 cartridges with reimagined art work, acrylic toppers that illuminate when inserted into the console, and extra. Oh, and there’ll simplest be 100 of them to be had international.
As detailed by means of Atari, those cartridges — which dangle Journey, Missile Command, Warlords, Tremendous Breakout, Crystal Castles, Haunted Space, Yars’ Revenge, Centipede, Asteroids, and Gravitar — additionally characteristic a remastered model in their authentic key artwork.
Additionally integrated are cardstock posters, educational manuals with bonus subject material, arduous teeth pins, patches, certificate of authenticity, and a virtual replica of each and every recreation that may be performed at the Atari VCS. If that wasn’t sufficient, while you put all 10 cartridges in combination, they show the Atari fiftieth Anniversary emblem, making it a really perfect merchandise for any collector’s shelf.
The gathering is lately in pre-production and Atari notes that any art work is topic to modify. Pre-orders are now open, and people who want to safe one should wait 3 to 4 months to get their product. It is usually necessary to notice that after the pre-order window closes, all orders will probably be regarded as ultimate and won’t be able to be canceled.
This is just one approach Atari is celebrating this large milestone, because it up to now launched Atari 50: The Anniversary Birthday party, and we fell in love with it.
In our Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration review, we stated that it “provides an absolutely new, very amusing solution to discover a number of a long time of Atari arcade machines, consoles, handhelds, and PCs.”
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