Atari and AdamVision Studios have spent the last few years producing modern “Recharged” versions of classic Atari games. Yars: Recharged is a new but faithful sequel to Yars’ Revenge, the Atari 2600 shoot ‘em up from 1982. This one casts one or two local players as the insect-like Yars who must shoot and bite their way throu...]]>
Over the last few years, Atari and developers AdamVision Studios and SneakyBox have been slowly but surely creating new sequels to classic Atari console and arcade games. The latest such release is Yars: Recharged, a new take on Yar’s Revenge, the Atari 2600 shoot ‘em up from 1982. Yars: Recharged looks slicker and deeper than the origi...
The original Yar's Revenge was designed by Howard Scott Warshaw and is remembered as Atari's best-selling original 2600 game. The new game comes from AdamVision Studios and SneakyBox, the same duo that has reimagined numerous Atari sequels in recent years: Asteroids: Recharged, Black Widow: Recharged, Breakout: Recharged, Centipede: Recharged, Gravatar: Recharged, and Missile Command: Recharged. All of those titles but poor Missile Command have local co-op!
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