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JUST AS YOU REIMAGINED THEM

One of the major features of Atari 50 is its brand-new games, under the Atari Reimagined label. These are Haunted House, Neo Breakout, Quadratank, Swordquest: AirWorld, VCTR-SCTR and Yars’ Revenge Reimagined.

is an attempt to create the missing chapter of the Eighties Atari on the and we had some information from Tod Frye that gave us a rough idea of his vision. We also knew that Atari was planning to create another comic book for but that was something we could not do. So the approach we took was to dive deep into research on ,” says Dave Rees. “The one thing that stood out in our research right away was the hexagram grid. The rooms in are arranged identically to the grid, and we also included the grid in the manual as a reference, which can be viewed while playing for convenience. In the end, it fit perfectly with the approach of the previous games and once we had it in place, it really felt like a game.”

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