{"id":1189712,"date":"2023-10-06T14:39:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T18:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1189712"},"modified":"2023-10-06T14:39:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T18:39:22","slug":"atari-is-releasing-a-new-cartridge-for-its-46-year-old-2600-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1189712","title":{"rendered":"Atari is releasing a new cartridge for its 46-year-old 2600 console"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atari just announced preorders for a physical cartridge<\/ins><\/a> for the company\u2019s once-ubiquitous 2600 console. You read that right. A gaming console that counts 1982 as its most successful year is releasing another new cartridge in the year 2023. The game-in-question is called Save Mary<\/em> and was actually developed during the console\u2019s golden years, before being shelved when the 2600 went the way of the dodo.<\/p>\n

Save Mary <\/em>was in development for two whole years, which is a lifetime in the generation of gaming that preceded the NES. The normal timeframe to produce a game back then was six to nine months, with some notorious titles<\/ins><\/a> taking just five or six weeks. Save Mary<\/em> was originally developed by veteran Atari staffer Tod Frye, the guy behind the 2600 version of Pac-Man<\/em> and the Swordquest series.<\/ins><\/a><\/p>\n

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Preordering one of these cartridges for $60 nets you a silver collector\u2019s edition box and a full-color manual, in addition to the game itself. There are only 500 of these carts available, making them an attractive collector\u2019s item for Atari diehards.<\/p>\n

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As for the game, Save Mary<\/em> tasks you with, well, saving a lady named Mary. She\u2019s stuck in a steep canyon that\u2019s rapidly filling with water. You use a crane to build platforms to help her escape the dire predicament. Power-ups appear on the cliffside to help you out, an idea that Atari says was likely inspired by Pac-Man.<\/em> Atari\u2019s founder Nolan Bushnell lauded the title in a 1989 interview,<\/ins><\/a> saying that it was the \u201cfirst game in which you rely on construction rather than destruction to save the princess.\u201d<\/p>\n

Save Mary<\/em> joins several other recently-manufactured Atari 2600 cartridges,<\/ins><\/a> many of which are brand-new titles like Mr. Run and Jump<\/ins><\/em><\/a> or unreleased \u201clost\u201d games like Aquaventure.<\/em> Each cartridge in the Atari XP line is \u201cmanufactured to exact standards\u201d from yesteryear with some modern flourishes like beveled edges to prevent pin damage and gold-plated connectors. You don\u2019t have to track down a dusty old 2600 to play these games, as Atari currently sells an upgraded version of the console, called the 2600+.<\/ins><\/a><\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/atari-is-releasing-a-new-cartridge-for-its-46-year-old-2600-console-183922523.html?src=rss
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Atari just announced preorders for a physical cartridge for the company\u2019s once-ubiquitous 2600 console. You read that right. A gaming console that counts 1982 as its most successful year is releasing another new cartridge in the year 2023. The game-in-question … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,110],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-1189712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-engadget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1189712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1189712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1189712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1189712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}