Pixel Ripped 1978

Fantasy Violence, Use of Alcohol

An immersive, joyful frolic through the Golden Age of Video Games

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ARVORE has teamed-up with Atari to create an incomparably authentic retro experience using gaming's most innovative technology: a 3D exploration of the 2D genesis of the industry. An immersive, joyful frolic through the Golden Age of Video Games, Pixel Ripped 1978 places our heroine Dot in the heart of the blossoming industry.

Pixel Ripped 1978 is the third installment in the popular VR series from ARVORE. The studio has introduced new, innovative mechanics that will delight VR enthusiasts, and the series ‘game within a game’ formula reaches new heights.

The collaboration with Atari not only increased the authenticity of the nostalgic adventure, it allowed the design team to layer in countless easter eggs for fans of retro gaming and gaming history.

The Story

Dot must join forces with "Bug," the quirky visionary who developed the original Pixel Ripped series. Help Dot maneuver through multidimensional challenges to protect Bug's childhood memories from the evil Cyblin Lord, a villain able to break through the screen and invade the real world. In the game. The setting? The intense burst of creativity that vibrated through the San Jose suburbs in the late 70s and early 80s. Feel the mighty effects of how the Pixel Stone alters reality itself!

Fantasy Violence, Use of Alcohol

Developer / Studio:
ARVORE

Release date:

June 15th

An AUthentic Nostalgia adventure

features

Multi-layered: play retro classics, unreleased betas, and discover easter eggs. Behind the scenes access to the iconic Atari Sunnyvale studio. More than just playing retro games, as you travel through two dimensions you change the games within the game

Virtual Reality has the power to transport us to the most fascinating places, and with Pixel Ripped, we have the opportunity to travel through time. But the destination isn’t a cold window to the past, it’s a warm journey of nostalgia.

Pixel Ripped 1978 is full of WTF moments for players. It is an exploration of shaggy game design, tossing aside smooth predictability to surprise and delight players by letting some mess and chaos into the game design. “A shaggy game design is one that forces the player to experience wildly varying systems and gameplay along the journey of the game” – Tanya X. Short, Captain of Kitfox Games

The Pixel Ripped franchise is the love-child of pioneering game designer Ana Ribeiro’s interest in video games and futurism. The franchise has explored pivotal moments in the evolution of the video game industry using leading edge technology – blending the past with the future. Pixel Ripped 1989 explored the era of 8-bit portable gaming. Pixel Ripped 1995 was set during the heyday of 16 and 32-bit games. Now Pixel Ripped 1978 goes back to the very genesis of gaming, when creative software and hardware design launched what has become a quarter billion dollar industry.