Atari is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary in model with a $999.99 collectible boxset that options 10 Atari 2600 cartridges with reimagined paintings, acrylic toppers that gentle up when inserted into the console, and extra. Oh, and there’ll solely be 100 of them obtainable worldwide.
As detailed by Atari, these cartridges — which maintain Journey, Missile Command, Warlords, Tremendous Breakout, Crystal Castles, Haunted Home, Yars’ Revenge, Centipede, Asteroids, and Gravitar — additionally function a remastered model of their authentic key artwork.
Additionally included are cardstock posters, tutorial manuals with bonus materials, laborious enamel pins, patches, certificates of authenticity, and a digital copy of every recreation that may be performed on the Atari VCS. If that wasn’t sufficient, if you put all 10 cartridges collectively, they show the Atari fiftieth Anniversary emblem, making it an ideal merchandise for any collector’s shelf.
The gathering is presently in pre-production and Atari notes that any paintings is topic to vary. Pre-orders are actually open, and those that want to safe one should wait three to 4 months to get their product. It is also essential to notice that when the pre-order window closes, all orders shall be thought-about last and will be unable to be canceled.
This is just one method Atari is celebrating this huge milestone, because it beforehand launched Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration, and we fell in love with it.
In our Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration overview, we mentioned that it “affords a totally new, very enjoyable technique to discover a number of many years of Atari arcade machines, consoles, handhelds, and PCs.”
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