Yars Rising is coming this year, doesn't look very Yar

Yars’ Revenge is one of the more interesting Atari 2600 games, and it has seen attempts at revival over the years. Wayforward and Atari are teaming up to take another crack at it with Yars Rising, and it doesn’t really resemble the original game much?

Yars Rising is a sidescroller where you play as a blue-haired girl who goes by codename Yar who is fighting against cyberpunk megacorporation Qotech. If you’re savvy, you’ll remember that Yars Revenge was about this weird bug thing that eats through force fields in order to take down the enigmatic Qotile. You can get the refrences, I’m sure. Even more so when the trailer shows off her Yars tattoo and she grows wings, and also there’s, like, a hacking minigame (?) that features the 2600 graphics.

I don’t know. I’d have to see more of the game to really form a solid opinion, but what I see really isn’t doing much for me. That art is okay, the animation is a little jerky, and I don’t see what separates it from other side-scrolling action games.

Yares Rising is coming to the PC and consoles sometime later this year.