This Arcade Cabinet Reproduction Offers a Retro Video-Gaming Experience With Over 60 Atari Arcade & Home Console Titles

Jeff Pfeiffer September 14, 2023

promo image for the 14 arcade games that are built into Arcade1Up's Atari 50th Anniversary Deluxe Arcade Machine cabinet. To the left of the vertical image is a picture of the arcade cabinet itself, with the list of games on the right. From top to bottom, the listed games (using their title logos from their original arcade cabinets) are: Centipede, Tempest, Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe, Millipede, Crystal Castles, Space Duel, Major Havoc, Missile Command, Gravitar, Akka Arrh, Liberator, Super Breakout and Lunar Lander. — © Atari/Courtesy Arcade1Up

**Just a few of the video games included in the new Atari 50th Anniversary Deluxe Arcade Machine**

It’s already a great fall for Atari fans. Not only is the Atari 2600+ — a re-created and modernized version of the classic Atari 2600 home video game console — on its way, but so is the Atari 50th Anniversary Deluxe Arcade Machine.

One of the newest developments from the arcade reproduction specialists at Arcade1Up, the Atari Deluxe Arcade Machine offers a realistic retro experience in a game cabinet that stands a little over 5 feet tall (it weighs 68 pounds), and includes features such as upgraded joysticks and on-off light-up buttons, a light-up marquee, 3-D molded light-up coin doors, dual speakers, a 17” BOE color monitor and a metal Certificate of Authenticity plaque.

angled side view of the Atari 50th Anniversary Deluxe Arcade Machine cabinet

The hardware certainly looks pretty cool, but even more impressive is the collection of Atari video games that comes within the cabinet. There are 64 games in total — 14 arcade games and 50 games from the Atari 2600.

It’s a nice mix of classics and lesser-known games, especially in the 2600 collection, which includes a few titles that were put out for the system later in its life (although the 2600 is most associated with its late ’70s/early ’80s heyday, it did continue into the very early ’90s, by which time it had been mostly eclipsed by Nintendo and Sega).

There are also some 2600 games here that were never officially released, or never advanced out of the prototype stage, and were only finished much later when they were rediscovered.

The cabinet has built-in Wi-Fi, so — for the 14 arcade games only — you can share your scores via an online leaderboard.

It all looks and sounds pretty sweet; here’s hoping that at some point they also put out a cocktail table-style arcade machine …

14 ATARI ARCADE GAMES ON THE DELUXE ARCADE MACHINE

- - Akka Arrh (reimagining of an unreleased 1982 prototype; *NOTE: Epilepsy warning for the Akka Arrh video just below*

- - Asteroids
  - Asteroids Deluxe
  - Centipede
  - Crystal Castles
  - Gravitar
  - Liberator
  - Lunar Lander
  - Major Havoc
  - Millipede
  - Missile Command

- - - Space Duel (one-player)
    - Super Breakout
    - Tempest

50 ATARI 2600 GAMES ON THE DELUXE ARCADE MACHINE

- - - - Adventure
    - - Aquaventure (unreleased 1983 game)
        
        Asteroids
        
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      - Backgammon
        
        Basketball
        
        Black Jack
        
        Bowling
        
        Breakout
        
        Canyon Bomber
        
        Casino
        
        Circus Atari
        
        Crystal Castles
        
        Dark Chambers
        
        Demons To Diamonds
        
        Desert Falcon
        
        Dodge ‘Em
        
        Double Dunk
      A Re-Created & Modernized Atari 2600 Is Coming in November 2023
      
      The Atari 2600+ will be a faithful re-creation of the four-switch Atari 2600 console released in 1980 (albeit smaller), complete with joystick and a cartridge containing 10 games, including Adventure, Missile Command and Yars' Revenge. You can also play your old 2600 and 7800 cartridges on it!
      
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      - Frog Pond
      - Golf
      - Hangman
      - Haunted House
      - Home Run Baseball
      - Human Cannonball
      - Miniature Golf
      - Missile Command
      - Moto Rodeo
      - Night Driver
      - Off The Wall
      - Othello
      - Quadrun
      - Radar Lock
      - Saboteur (developed in 1983, never released)
      - Save Mary (unreleased 1990 prototype)

- - - - Secret Quest
        
        Sky Diver
        
        Solaris
    - - Sprint Master
      - Star Raiders
      - Steeplechase
      - Submarine Commander
      - Super Breakout
      - Swordquest: Earth World
      - Swordquest: Fire World
      - Swordquest: Water World
      - Telepathy
      - Tempest
      - 3-D Tic Tac Toe
      - Wizard (developed in 1980; first released as part of the 2005 Atari Flashback 2 package)
      - Yars’ Revenge

The Atari 50th Anniversary Deluxe Arcade Machine can currently be pre-ordered at this Atari site for $499.99, for delivery in October 2023 (I’ve seen it available for pre-order at Best Buy, too).

You can also find more info at that site, and at Arcade1Up’s site.

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