Return of the Fly People! – Atari’s Yars’ Revenge is Back!
Just as the bellbottom jeans are making a fashion comeback, Atari’s Yars’ Revenge is up for an encore and attempting to mount a pop-cultural resurgence with the upcoming video game, Yars Rising. And let’s just say, these sequels to the 40-year-old video game are creating quite a buzz – an insect-themed buzz, no less.
40 years certainly seems like a long rest period, even for a pixelated anthropomorphic fly. Yet, the sci-fi tales on aliens and their fly people ilk are garnering a warm reception during the summer gamefest previews. Perhaps it’s time for these creepy crawlies to bask in their long-overdue spotlight.
Life After 1983’s Atari Shock – Atari & Howard Scott Warshaw Team Up Again
The brains behind Yars Rising also include the psychotherapist turned video game legend, Howard Scott Warshaw, naturally. His work on Yars, E.T., and Raiders of the Lost Ark took the gaming world by storm and changed its landscape for good. Indeed, long before the infamous “Atari Shock” recession of 1983, these games were indeed the hot shots.
This new elucidation of the legendary game series, a joint venture between Warshaw, WayForward, and Atari, will follow in its predecessor’s footsteps in reference to a companion comic series.
September 10th – Save The Date For The New Game Release
The game will hit the stores for PC and console gaming enthusiasts on the 10th of September this year. And that’s not all. Just two months later, in November, a Yars Rising companion comic will also debut to lure the comic book junkies into this uniquely crafted universe.
Providing a peek into the expansive backstory behind the 8-bit game, this comic would surely set the stage for a vibrant and engrossing campaign.
Emi Kimura – Hack The Game
Yars Rising brings the artistic ingenuity of Ele Bruni (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tea Time, Space Opera), Ashleigh Hetrick (Art Director, WayForward), and Aurora Maeno, along with the narrative mastery of Wayforward Game Director, Adam Tierney.
The comic paints the journey of Emi Kimura – a professional hacker, who, along with her motley crew, finds herself enmeshed in a web of consequences spun by a job gone horribly amiss.
Return of the fly people, indeed. Sequels to 40-year-old video games never tasted so enthrallingly sweet, repackaged with a retro sci-fi edge. After all, who knew the buzzing of alien flies would be music to 2021 ears? But here we are, eagerly tuned in and waiting to swat at whatever these old critters aim to spew at us from their pixelated stingers. Be prepared to be bitten by the nostalgia bug.
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