Atari has announced the launch of a limited edition of Save Mary, a video game created four decades ago, that will come to the Atari 2600 console in physical cartridge format for $59.99 (about €57 at the current exchange rate). The Atari 2600 is a platform released in 1977 along with other consoles such as the Intellvision (1979) that popularized interchangeable cartridges, i.e. memory cases that held different titles. The American-born technology company has now announced the launch of a limited edition of Save Mary, a video game that comes in this traditional format and which has “never been officially launched”, as explained on its website. Designed by Todd Fry and dating from 1983, Save Mary is a video game in which players must build a platform so that its main character can escape from a canyon that sometimes floods. This uses a crane to move Mary from one side of the screen to the other so that the concrete blocks don’t crush her during this construction against the clock. Along with the Atari 2600, the American manufacturer has confirmed that Save Mary will also be coming to the Atari 2600 Jr. (which was released in 1985) and the Atari 7800, which came a year later. This now-out-of-print video game is the work of Atari XP, a publisher of collectible physical games from the 1970s and 1980s that manufactures cartridges in the United States and packages limited editions in premium boxes and other add-ons for collectors. It’s worth remembering that Atari released the Atari 2600+ at the end of August last year, an upgraded miniature version of the original model with improvements such as playback of Atari 2600 and 7800 game cartridges in the same system, as well as HDMI output and a widescreen playback mode.
