Atari Comes Back to the Arcade! | Recharged Cabinets Coming Soon

Alan-1, Inc., a video game studio and manufacturer of coin-operated arcade game cabinets, announced yesterday a new partnership with the iconic game publisher Atari. Alan-1 has been selected by Atari to create new arcade games cabinets for their Recharged games. These cabinets will be designed for Family Fun Centers, Barcades, and other location-based entertainment (LBE) venues. This collaboration marks a significant step forward in enriching the location-based arcade experience by the company that created the most endearing coin-operated video games in the world.

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[GenXGrownUp]

🚨 UPDATE 🚨
Plenty of commenters have enjoyed fact-checking my "June 1984" date as the last Atari arcade cabinet was produced. The correct date is, admittedly, a matter of perception and interpretation (and what you consider "Atari" to be). It's accurate that June 1984 was the final arcade machine release by Atari, Inc. (I, Robot). It's also accurate that under the name, "Atari Games" the arcade division of the old Atari, Inc. continued to release arcade machines all the way up to 1999 (Road Burners). Titles created by Atari Games are not associated with or owned by the current iteration of Atari under which Recharged games are published, so I wasn't considering those later titles as being affiliated with the company we know today as Atari. Choose any date you find to most match your views, and pretend I said that, because that little trivia factoid bit in the first sentence of this video has no bearing on the news being reported or my views on it. Thanks! 😁

[Treeplanter]

Just within 30 minutes of my house, they're are 2 retrocades. Both have atleast 100 games or more, and packed all day on the weekends. I love it.

[cryptocoffee]

With the accelerated news that Atari has had in the last year and a half I would say, this makes a lot of sense because you're getting the older audience and also still attracting potential new audience and you're giving families things to do together all in the spirit of what Atari has always been

[twall]

The "Barcade" is just an awesome idea. I remember back in the 80s, my dad sold wings to a bar we'd go to on a Sunday afternoon, and eat Buffalo wings. That bar had a Pac Man cabinet, and it hooked my mom HARD. Arcade cabinets were in every bar going well into the late 90s. It makes sense now that all of us who grew up in arcades would gravitate to a new kind of 'adult arcade'. Get a beer, play on a cabinet with a game totally in the here and now graphically, and flirt with the opposite sex. Party like it's 1985. I'll bet bars, and Atari, will make bank. Great video, as usual.

[JC-vdyi]

Oh i forgot. Missile command, Centipede Recharged with a trackball would be awesome

[lydiakossow]

oh..wow! how cool is that! I'd love to see these in cabinets at any arcade.

[AudioGuyBrian]

Raw Thrills also does good remakes of Arcade Games. Eugene Jarvis is a God in my book. Cheers.

[Boswd]

I would enjoy these . As a father to an 11 year old we frequent. Dave and Busters, Ryans Amusement. And reimagined bowling alley entertainment complexes that have taken over local malls, most of these are filled with a lot of modern takes boardwalk type of games of chance..etc .. I'm always looking for older arcades. This will be a welcomed addition

[MrAletion]

Awesome review! Let's stay tuned to the release!

[shawncarter]

Alan-1. Ok im going to go watch Tron now

[Arcadehollywood]

The Atari Recharged series is outstanding!!! I can't stop playing all of them.

[thunderbird]

I’d love to see a recharged version of Battlezone.

[glenjust]

Will be fun to track this and see how it all develops along the way! Thanks for sharing the news with us Jon!

[JustinEmlay]

I thought you might appreciate this:

1984 - Buying movie tickets for Ghostbusters and Dune.

2021 - Buying movie tickets for Ghostbusters and Dune.

2024 - Buying movie tickets for Ghostbusters and Dune.

All this has happened before, and it will all happen again...

[syntaxerror]

Missile command will need some reworking to eliminate its dependancy on its upgrade system.

[mattnova]

Missile Command Recharged will be so cool to see at an arcade!

[SensibleChuckle]

Just please don't make them look like 00's Flash games! I love them but only missile command really hits the mark and it needs a trackball.

I just got a 5200 joystick/ trackball to USB converter. I just haven't had time to set it up and try it on the recharged games yet. I have high hopes for it though.

[jayme]

Atari are on fire just now! #LoveAtari

[will_it_work]

Hmmmm.... Atari split in 1984 with Jack Tramiel only buying the consumer division. The coin-op was renamed to Atari Games, (with its own convoluted history, including the employees owning it for a time) and continued to make coin-op games all the way into the late 90's. In fact, many that worked at Atari Games felt they were the "real" Atari anyway, since the company's roots were coin-op, and most of the personnel stayed the same, which wasn't true over in the consumer division.

[ASHdemoREEL]

take my money!!! :) super looking forward to this & the direction its headed. many thanks for the GREAT video!