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Thursday, January 08, 2015

Atari Announces Atari Fit, Lose those extra Christmas pounds, A Gamification Fitness App to Motivate Players with 150 Exercise Routines that Unlock Classic Atari Games


Integrates with Marquee Fitness Apps including FitBit and RunKeeper; Unites Fitness and Gaming as Players Exercise to Unlock Atari Games, and Earns Participants Walgreens Balance Rewards Points.


Atari Fit, a gamified fitness app coming to mobile devices in Early 2015. To develop impactful fitness routines, Atari teamed up with Michael Porter, certified personal trainer and performance enhancement specialist through the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM), to provide more than 150 exercises – including full-body circuit workouts, running programs and custom routines.
Atari Fit motivates users to exercise individually or in collaboration with friends, while earning points to unlock classic Atari games, including Pong, Centipede, Super Breakout and more.



Atari also announced its integration of the Walgreens Balance Rewards application program interface, which allows users to earn Balance Rewards loyalty program points for participating in challenges that log steps taken. Points can be redeemed at Walgreens and Walgreens.com.

Atari Fit will be packed with numerous social features, and compatible with the industry’s most popular wearable health and fitness devices, including Fitbit and RunKeeper. Atari Fit will also aggregate data from other world-renowned fitness apps, such as Google Health, allowing users to track all of their fitness activity statistics in one mobile application. Atari Fit will include a robust set of tracking capabilities to capture the user’s distance, speed, pace, time and calories burned.

Additional Atari Fit features include:


  • Gamified Workouts: Users are motivated by daily tips, and a multitude of exercise routines or custom programs that offer various levels of workouts that track distance, speed, pace and calories burned. Whether users work out alone or with a team, they can rise to the “top of the world” leaderboards and be the “fittest player on Earth.”
  • Multiplayer: Players can exercise individually or with friends located all over the world at any time. Users can join a team, workout or race against each other, and track activity statistics for group encouragement to become the fittest team of gamers worldwide.
  • Online Leaderboards for Atari Classic Games: For the first time ever, Atari games included in the app will highlight leaderboards where users can rank their skills against other players from around the globe.
  • Social Sharing: Participants can post updates to Twitter and Facebook at the end of every workout, sharing player achievements and personal workout bests with friends.
  • (Atari Fit will eventually be localised)






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