Yars’ Revenge was one of those original Atari 2600 games I never had, but I’d play the heck out of it over at my friend Mike’s house. I loved the interplanetary backstory, I loved the box art and the bonus comic book, and I loved the gameplay and the sound effects. This was, to 11-year-old me, one awesome game.
In fact, a couple decades later, in one of my earliest GeekDad posts, I wished (upon a Yar?) that someone would reboot Yars’ Revenge in epic fashion.
And now, this:
You can watch a previously-released teaser here at Atari.com.
(And yes, there looks to be a change in the positioning of that apostrophe: While the 1982 game was about the revenge of the Yars as a collective, this time around it seems that “Yar” is the vengeance-seeking title character’s actual name.)
Remember Razak IV!
John Booth
Writer John Booth lives in northeast Ohio with his wife and daughter. He is the author of the book "Collect All 21! Memoirs of a Star Wars Geek – The First 30 Years."
