Every New Game For Atari 50's New Paid DLC Has Been Revealed

So... is it all going to be on the cartridge or isn't it?

Because even the smallest of patches will require physical owners to download however many gigs comprise the bulk of any updates to date.

Hell yeah, Red Baron!

Shame that the "wider world of Atari" is mostly 2600 and arcade, with no Lynx or Jaguar.

Still, these are great games that are now under the Atari umbrella. Looking forward to my physical release.

@SillyG Digital Eclipse has said it will be complete on the new cart with no downloads (which is good because this first pack of dlc alone is like 2 gigs).

I love Berzerk, so I am very excited about all these versions. I am also excited about the sequel "Frenzy". I only heard about it a couple of years ago and haven't played it yet.

They are leaning HARD on Berzerk. They have 11 other IP from Stern they have done nothing with.

So now we're good until the next DLC and an even-steelier book?

I was a C64 boy (got second hand from my brother), if this was C64 collection i would be on it.
Especially a Dizzy Collection so I could finally finish Treasure Island Dizzy

I just want an Activision Atari collection. Kaboom, Pitfall, etc.

I’m way too young to know a lot of the more obscure games but I loved learning more about the games through the collection.

This is awesome. I wish more companies would do stuff like this and open up their back catalog. I’ll definitely have to check it out.

@Not_Soos You and me both, brotha

Glad Berzerk is added, but hopefully Atari can strike a deal with Activision, Namco, Taito, Parker Brothers and/or whoever owns the rights to Imagic in the future.

was looking forward to one of my all time favorite arcade games in the collection berzerk..

It's all? Just 2600 and arcade stuff?...

<insert xzibitmeme> “Yo dawg, we heard you like Berserk”

I LOL'd about Frenzy since that was a Colecovision exclusive.

It's a shame they can't get the Activision titles, as they're sorely missing here, but I'd love to see some of the other companies (Stern as someone mentioned, or Bally/Midway) fill that void.

(I'd love any version of Solar Fox on Switch to be honest)

And I don't understand why they'd bother to feature the Intellivision in this new version and then just...not have Intellivision games? I understand the controller is weird, but it would've been cool to have some of the ones with more normal control schemes.

@World It would be difficult now since Activision is part of Microsoft so not only do Atari had to jump through hoops to get Activision's blessing but then they had to jump even more hoops to get the okay from Microsoft as well. It only takes one of them to say no before everything came crumbling down.

@ChromaticDracula @Not_Soos If you still have your GBA or a PS2, you can grab compilations of 2600 Activision games.

Lots of interesting things (mostly as sub-text!) to this list.

The positives:

• Glad a lot more 1970s Arcade games are added. I'm not familiar with some of them. Curious about some missing ones: No "Steeplechase" (but we have the Atari 2600 version).
• Desert Falcon seems like something they held onto from previous later day 2600 releases to pad out this. Curiously, only the 2600 version, no 7800 or Atari 8-bit.
• Off the Wall, but not the arcade version which is another one of those damn "Atari Games" games.
• Stellar Track is a text-based game (!) Curious how this will pan out for console versions.
• Avalanche is interesting. It was not a hit, but Activision's Kaboom! is basically a rip-off of it and gets all the glory. A little less appealing without the Mad Bomber though!

Comments:
While I understand a lot of gripes, "No Activision?" I'm leaning towards that's not going to happen anytime soon. Activision still likes including their old Atari 2600 games in new games. Did you know you can play Pitfall and Enduro in some later day Call of Duty games? I'd imagine licensing them out is not on high order.

I know people are not ultra enthusiastic for pre-Super Mario Bros. 1 games, but what exactly are they expecting for Jaguar? I'm predicting they'll add Bubsy in Fractured Furry Tales eventually. I'm sure that's a game that might need some confirmation about details before just flinging it onto Atari 50. The only games I truly dream of them adding are the Iron Soldier games and Battlemorph. (Jaguar CD is surely even more of a nightmare to emulate than the Jaguar!)

Curiously, no 7800 games. Surely this is Atari banking on the re-release of their mini of this, but I guess there are not that many games for it.

Dream Additions that I think are possible:
Starpath games! Surely whoever owns the rights is just letting them sit. These games put the 2600 on steroids. Dragonstomper and Escape from the Mind Master are the real examples of fascinating games that could be made for the system.

More Atari 8-bit! I know Atari just released the mini-version, but this system is really underexplored in how vast it is.

@Burning_Spear I do, in fact! Some other folks left me a similar comment in previous article. I have an Analogue Pocket and a GBA so I think I'm all set

Desert Falcon, I thought that was in there already somehow! Maybe I played it in a previous collection. Was one of my actual Atari carts at the time so I have a real nostalgia for that one.

Ooo, Berserk and Frenzy will be a treat to play again, and I used to love Red Baron in one of my local arcades. And Sky Diver!! My sis and I played a ton of that on our uncle's VCS back in the early 80s.
This DLC will add to what was already a real nostalgia trip. I will greedily be picking up the Extended Edition steelbook this November.

Berserk berserk berserk over you!

eh I'll pass. I wanted the night driver arcade and some jaguar games.

When I saw stuff like Super Bug in the press kit, I was so hoping we'd get a few black & white games that weren't already in the Atari Flashback Classics/Vault line. No such luck.

Hopefully one day we'll see Night Driver with wheel support, Tank 8, and some of the other microprocessor omissions from this neglected era (I don't hold out any hope for any of the missing discrete logic games like Gran Trak to be recreated when it took decades just to see Breakout finally make it out when it joined Pong in Atari 50's launch lineup).

@Atariboy hello fellow night driver fan, that's my fav game of the 70s.

@Serpenterror Yeah, that's why I said "it's a shame they can't." I realize it's sadly not a reasonable thing to really expect at this point.

Berzerk 5200! Frenzy! Nice 👍 a bit disappointed no 7800, Jag or Atari 800/XE games though. Hopefully next round. Also would like to see some Intellivision games like Astrosmash! Keep it going Atari!

@Zeebor15 Do they?? What games I’m intrigued lol

@joey302
Here's my full ongoing list of every IP ever

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uHp_wqa1tNWa8DpeRRH-KGp3rSU4fmYLtIr86Z7f7og/edit?gid=639918701#gid=639918701

And here's Atari's full (but somehow still incomplete) IP list as of 2 weeks ago https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1e-tl9Oqwnr78879Lnne_uhlsGkPWFK_z428ZmUaJjog/edit#slide=id.g2ff92e3406f_0_0

@IceClimbersMain How in the world do they need 2 GB for a handful of 2600 games and, while I'm not that familiar with Atari arcade games beyond the really big ones, I think "Atari" arcades game here would be all pre-1984 games (before the "Atari Games" arcade division split)?

@KingMike probably more videos and interviews on there too.

All been a bit of a co@# up this game, I got the original steelbook when it first came out with Warbirds on the cart but if I downloaded the day one update it blocked you from playing Warbirds and a few other games. Then eventually an update was released that allows you to play the blocked games, happy days I thought, all my problems are over. Then they announced DLC with more games and a brand new steelbook edition with everything on! I guarantee that six months from now this new edition will be incomplete as they announce more DLC again!

@andyg1412 Yeah, the space is mostly devoted to the video interviews for the timeline.

I run a weekly retro video game poll on Reddit. For the "Atari Era" (roughly 1976-1984), Berzerk made the Top 10.

@MontyCircus Link us up to it!

@Zeebor15 , thanks for these!

@IceClimbersMain Agreed, I do wish they'd trickle a few more Lynx games into these two packs — the Lynx emulation in the baseline version was phenomenal (and something I never thought I'd see in a commercial release of any Atari compilation)

My dream-game for an upcoming update would be "Todd's Adventures In Slime World" with its full 8-player support intact!

@Burning_Spear Yeah, I actually grew up with Activision Classics on my PS2, which is the only way I'd even know about those old Atari games. I just want to have it on a modern system that I can play portably. Thank you though!

It’s a shame they can’t put the Star Wars Arcades on there

@frenchtoastplease

Okay, here is the link to this week's poll:
https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming/comments/1fn69um/best_video_games_of_the_snesgenesistg16_era_poll/

We're in the SNES/Genesis/TG-16 era now. There are links for the results of the Top 50 Atari Era games and Top 100 NES/Master System Era games.

I’m only here for arcade Berzerk and Frenzy and some more interviews. 2GBs, though, wow!

@Gyromike Todd is stuck on a separate Epyx collection currently. It’s in my wishlist, I just haven’t gotten around to pick it up yet. I don’t think it has the multiplayer support, unfortunately.

https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/the-epyx-collection-handheld-switch/

This is only 19 of the 39 games incoming, so I'll save my gripes about no Jaguar, Atari 8-bit or Lynx. What is here is very cool, and I'm even more interested in the interviews in the timelines.

@masterLEON !!! I didn't know this Epyx collection existed — just bought it now! Thank you!