Atari 50: The First Console War
Well before the current day console wars dominated social media and message boards, Atari's VCS and Intellivision collided in the first major video game rivalry in 1979. The battle only intensified when…
Atari 50: The First Console War is an arcade developed by Digital Eclipse, released 8 November 2024 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What Atari 50: The First Console War is
Atari 50: The First Console War is an arcade game developed by Digital Eclipse and released in 2024. It was published by Atari. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Well before the current day console wars dominated social media and message boards, Atari's VCS and Intellivision collided in the first major video game rivalry in 1979. The battle only intensified when Intellivision started making games for the VCS, its fiercest rival's machine! In a series of exclusive interviews, the game makers who lived through the first console war explain how and why this unique chapter of video-game history unfolded.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
What it launched against
Atari 50: The First Console War launched on 8 November 2024, within three weeks of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Life is Strange: Double Exposure. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Life is Strange: Double Exposure.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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