Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2022
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $39.99.
- Length
- 6.1h
- Value
- $6.56/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($19.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 55% ($17.99)
- Last discount ended
- 28 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series, Nvidia GeForce 8800GT or greater, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration takes players on an interactive journey through 50 years of video games via interviews with designers, developers and industry leaders, documentary footage, product design documents, high-res original artwork, and a curated list of more than 90 playable games.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $15.99, set in August 2026. Its cuts run 45 percent off as a rule. There have been 29 in the 4 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Commando Collection ($3.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection ($39.99, scores 49).
82 from critics against 92 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 334 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 651 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 219 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 131 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 6.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 19, 3.1 times as much.
The drop-off
9% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 12:52 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
Cite this score
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1919470/atari-50-the-anniversary-celebrationReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 1.
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