Atari Acquires Berzerk, Frenzy, And 10 More Classic Arcade Properties

Atari has revealed that it has acquired 12 basic arcade properties, together with Berzerk and its sequel, Frenzy. 

Surprisingly, although, Atari didn’t reveal all 12 properties that it has acquired. Within the press launch asserting the information, the corporate solely lists Berzerk and Frenzy. Atari merely says it has acquired a “dozen retro arcade video games” so it is doubtless the opposite 10 properties are from the identical period of arcade video games as Berzerk and Frenzy. 

“Atari…introduced as we speak the acquisition of a dozen retro arcade video games, together with the ’80s classics Berzerk and Frenzy,” the press launch reads. “Atari will search to develop digital and bodily distribution of the basic titles, create new video games based mostly on the IPs, and discover model and merchandising collaborations.”

Atari says Berzerk is “a top-down, multidirectional shooter designed by Alan McNeil that was launched for arcades in 1980.” It is maybe finest identified for being the primary arcade online game with speech synthesis. Following its arcade launch, Berzerk was ported to the Atari 2600 and Atari 5200 by the console maker. Frenzy is definitely a sequel to Berzerk first launched in 1982. 

“Berzerk is a kind of foundational video games that so many individuals first encountered taking part in on an Atari console,” Atari CEO Wade Rosen writes within the press launch. “Berzerk, and the opposite titles included on this acquisition, are an ideal match for our technique of commercializing basic retro IP.”

Who is aware of if we’ll be taught what the opposite 10 retro arcade properties Atari has acquired are – solely time will inform. Within the meantime, learn Sport Informer’s assessment of Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration. 

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