{"id":132283,"date":"2023-03-07T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-146147"},"modified":"2023-03-07T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T16:30:00","slug":"video-jeff-minter-on-how-he-brought-ataris-lost-shooter-akka-arrh-up-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/03\/07\/video-jeff-minter-on-how-he-brought-ataris-lost-shooter-akka-arrh-up-to-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Jeff Minter On How He Brought Atari&#8217;s Lost Shooter &#8216;Akka Arrh&#8217; Up To Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9a15c2054c924\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9a15c2054c924\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"qtkifcXjJ9Q\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/akka_arrh\">Akka Arrh<\/a> was, for a long time, one of Atari&#8217;s long-lost treasures, an arcade shooter that was scrapped back in the &#8217;80s. After making its return in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/atari_50_the_anniversary_celebration\">Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration<\/a>, legendary game designer Jeff Minter and his studio Llamasoft brought an updated version to consoles in the form of a kaleidoscope of colours and sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Atari sat down with Minter in a recent video to discuss how and why he decided to bring this once-lost classic back from the brink, with updated visuals, gameplay, and sounds. It&#8217;s a brief video, but Minter&#8217;s experience and interests shine through as he details the process from how the original ROM was saved to his decision to make the game a bit more &#8220;relaxed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Minter also details his inspirations from former Atari producer and developer Eugene Jarvis \u2014 responsible for <strong>Defender<\/strong> and <strong>Robotron: 2084<\/strong>, among other titles. If you&#8217;re a fan of Minter&#8217;s work or are even just curious about Akka Arrh, you should check the video out above.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but earlier today, Atari announced that physical copies of the game will be available to pre-order from this Friday, 10th March, from <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/limitedrungames.com\/\">Limited Run Games<\/a> in North America. In Europe, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/numskullgames.com\/\">Numskull Games<\/a> is handling physical pre-orders, including limited quantities of a Day One Edition, but those aren&#8217;t due to be available until the spring.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Akka Arrh Physical LRG\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/84e5820feefe5\/akka-arrh-physical-lrg.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/84e5820feefe5\/akka-arrh-physical-lrg.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Akka Arrh Physical LRG\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Limited Run Games<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our lovely friends over at Time Extension had a chance to sit down with Jeff Minter last month to talk all things Akka Arrh, Atari, and sheep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeextension.com\/features\/interview-llamasofts-jeff-minter-discusses-his-new-game-akka-arrh-and-working-with-atari\" class=\"external\">Though there aren&#8217;t any sheep in Akka Arrh, unfortunately<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Have you picked up Akka Arrh on Switch yet? Are you happy with how it turned out? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Akka Arrh was, for a long time, one of Atari&#8217;s long-lost treasures, an arcade shooter that was scrapped back in the &#8217;80s. After making its return in Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration, legendary game designer Jeff Minter and his studio Llamasoft brought an updated version to consoles in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}