Atari 50 Game List Expands With Holiday Content Update
Last Updated on December 1, 2023
If you thought the Atari 50 game list was missing a few 2600-era classics, you’re about to have a great Christmas…
Here’s some excellent news if you enjoyed the Atari 50 collection. It’s list of games is about to get an upgrade, with a further 12 titles joining the decade-spanning celebratory release.
Take a look at how it was announced:
Incredibly, while they’re not flogging sports jackets and other overpriced tat, Atari do know how to treat genuine retro gamers.
Here’s a list of some of the suspected additions, all previously hinted to be Atari 2600 titles.
- Basketball
- Steeplechase
Meanwhile, several other titles were absent from the Atari 50 game list, including:
- Joust
- Pitfall
- Frogger
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
- Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark
- E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Could any of these games be heading to the Atari 50 collection…? Well, maybe the first three…
Original Atari 50 game list
As the original Atari 50 omitted some key entries in the company’s game collection (despite including 103 games), this update is certainly well timed. It’s just over a year since the collection launched on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Series X|S, PlayStation 4|5, and Windows PC, before later hitting the Atari VCS.
Here’s the original list:
| Arcade | Atari 800 | Atari 2600 | Atari 5200 | Atari 7800 | Atari Lynx | Atari Jaguar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akka Arrh (1982, unreleased) | Bounty Bob Strikes Back! | 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe | Bounty Bob Strikes Back! | Asteroids | Basketbrawl | Atari Karts |
| Asteroids (1979) | Caverns of Mars | Adventure | Millipede | Basketbrawl | Malibu Bikini Volleyball | Club Drive |
| Asteroids Deluxe (1980) | Food Fight | Air-Sea Battle | Missile Command | Centipede | Scrapyard Dog | Cybermorph |
| Black Widow (1982) | Miner 2049er | Asteroids | Star Raiders | Dark Chambers | Super Asteroids & Missile Command | Evolution Dino Dudes |
| Breakout (1976) | Basic Math | Super Breakout | Fatal Run | Turbo Sub | Fight for Life | |
| Centipede (1980) | Breakout | Ninja Golf | Warbirds | Missile Command 3D | ||
| Cloak & Dagger (1983) | Canyon Bomber | Scrapyard Dog | Ruiner Pinball | |||
| Crystal Castles (1983) | Centipede | Tempest 2000 | ||||
| Fire Truck (1978) | Combat | Trevor McFur in the Crescent Galaxy | ||||
| Food Fight (1983) | Combat Two | |||||
| Gravitar (1982) | Crystal Castles | |||||
| I, Robot (1983) | Dark Chambers | |||||
| Liberator (1982) | Demons to Diamonds | |||||
| Lunar Lander (1979) | Dodge ‘Em | |||||
| Major Havoc (1983) | Fatal Run | |||||
| Maze Invaders (1981) | Gravitar | |||||
| Millipede (1982) | Haunted House | |||||
| Missile Command (1980) | Millipede | |||||
| Pong (1972) | Miner 2049er | |||||
| Quantum (1982) | Missile Command | |||||
| Space Duel (1982) | Outlaw | |||||
| Sprint 8 (1977) | Quadrun | |||||
| Super Breakout (1978) | Race 500 | |||||
| Tempest (1980) | RealSports series (separate releases for Baseball, Basketball, Boxing, Football, Soccer, Tennis, and Volleyball) | |||||
| Warlords (1980) | Saboteur | |||||
| Secret Quest | ||||||
| Solaris | ||||||
| Super Breakout | ||||||
| Surround | ||||||
| Swordquest series (separate releases for EarthWorld, FireWorld, and WaterWorld) | ||||||
| Warlords | ||||||
| Yars’ Revenge |
If you own the Atari 50 collection, you can expect the update to appear on your device on Tuesday, 5th December.
Meanwhile, if the Atari 2600 isn’t your thing, don’t worry – the Atari Jaguar and other devices are likely to be the subject of future updates… (although apparently not Atari ST – this is a console game-only collection.)
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