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Summary: Awesome collection
Review: If you grew up playing Atari like I did you have to buy this game. These games are classics. If you're ever sitting at home with nothing to do this game will entertain you for hours and bring back a lot of good memories. This game runs extremely well on my computer. I'm running it on Windows XP Home and I havn't had any problems at all with it. It doesn't lag or skip and it always runs smooth. This game is definatly worth the money If you grew up playing Atari.
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Summary: They forgot 2600 Basketball !!!
Review: If you've been waiting for Red Baron keep waiting. The turning doesn't work well with the keys no matter what I try. Hopefully it will work better with a stick. You need to tweek the controls on all the games to get them working the way you want. You can load the whole thing to your drive and play without the disk. It says on the box you don't have to load it and can play it off the disk. Why? So it can wear out my drive?? Feh! I'm ticked they left out 2600 BASKETBALL and Championship Soccer. Double dunk? Never heard of it and it bites. There is a 1 player Combat and a playable prototype of 2600 Tempest. Trekies will like the Sears game Stellar Track. It looks confusing at first but it's like Star Raiders on a grid. Some games like Desert Falcon had much better 7800 versions. Wish they were here.
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Summary: Totally awesome!
Review: Like a lot of people of my generation, I grew up playing with the Atari 2600 and the stack of game cartridges that I acquired in the early 1980s. It was one of my most beloved beloved toys of my youth, and when my 2600 console died sometime in the late 1980s, I thought I'd never play a lot of those games again.And so that's why this CD-Rom is so great - it's a wonderful nostalgia trip. I was so geeked to play Adventure once again - one of my all-time favorite 2600 games. And it's fun playing games that I never owned, but wanted. It is such a bargain: back in the day, individual game cartridges cost about $30 each, but now you can buy 80 - 80! - games for just $20. Incredible! Not only does this CD-Rom include exact reproductions of the original games, but you also get tons of bonus materials, an in-depth video interview with the founder of Atari, complete instructions for all of the games, box art, promotional material, even a single-player version of Combat! I also really like the 18 arcade versions of Crystal Castles, Gravitar, Battlezone and other classic arcade games. I loved playing Centipede in the arcades and now I've got my own version of it on my PC! The only complaint I have is that not all of the games Atari made for the 2600 are here. Sure, there were a bunch of other companies, like Activision, who made games for the 2600, but I'm talking about games (especially a lot of the latter-day games) like Pole Position, Kangaroo, Dig Dug, etc. versions of which Atari made for the 2600. Those games aren't here. Also missing are games like Raiders of the Lost Ark - a cool role playing game - but I guess there might have been trademark issues involved there. Anyone born after 1980 probably won't be interested in this. Yeah, these games are mighty primitive by today's standards (I'm amazed that most of these games only take up about 2K of space - so small and simple!), for those of us who grew up with the Atari 2600, this is a great collection and definitely worth picking up.
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Summary: Totally awesome!
Review: Like a lot of people of my generation, I grew up playing with the Atari 2600 and the stack of game cartridges that I acquired in the early 1980s. It was one of my most beloved beloved toys of my youth, and when my 2600 console died sometime in the late 1980s, I thought I'd never play a lot of those games again. And so that's why this CD-Rom is so great - it's a wonderful nostalgia trip. I was so geeked to play Adventure once again - one of my all-time favorite 2600 games. And it's fun playing games that I never owned, but wanted. It is such a bargain: back in the day, individual game cartridges cost about $30 each, but now you can buy 80 - 80! - games for just $20. Incredible! Not only does this CD-Rom include exact reproductions of the original games, but you also get tons of bonus materials, an in-depth video interview with the founder of Atari, complete instructions for all of the games, box art, promotional material, even a single-player version of Combat! I also really like the 18 arcade versions of Crystal Castles, Gravitar, Battlezone and other classic arcade games. I loved playing Centipede in the arcades and now I've got my own version of it on my PC! The only complaint I have is that not all of the games Atari made for the 2600 are here. Sure, there were a bunch of other companies, like Activision, who made games for the 2600, but I'm talking about games (especially a lot of the latter-day games) like Pole Position, Kangaroo, Dig Dug, etc. versions of which Atari made for the 2600. Those games aren't here. Also missing are games like Raiders of the Lost Ark - a cool role playing game - but I guess there might have been trademark issues involved there. Anyone born after 1980 probably won't be interested in this. Yeah, these games are mighty primitive by today's standards (I'm amazed that most of these games only take up about 2K of space - so small and simple!), for those of us who grew up with the Atari 2600, this is a great collection and definitely worth picking up.
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Summary: Nostalgic Old Games
Review: Now I can show my Grandchildren what we played at the Pizza Hut when we were teenagers!
These games played GREAT on my computer, I had no problems whatsoever. (IBM Clone running Win 98 2nd Edit.)
Don't expect 21st century graphics and sound here, these games are prehistoric in comparison.
A GRET buy at this price!
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Summary: Mildly Disappointing
Review: The good thing about these games is that they do work OK on a modern XP system. Some of them are pretty much as I remember the originals, for example Pong, Centipede, Millipede. I've been looking for a Circus Atari type game for a long time - I used to love that game. Well, that one doesn't hold up to the passage of time and the rudimentary graphics make it boring.
If you do get this set; many of the games are hard to play with a mouse, and I found a game pad and a joystick pretty unresponsive. What works best for me is a rollerball.
This package isn't very expensive so if you long for the old Atari games, its satisfying enough. It's not great.
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Summary: No Better Way To Drop Eighteen Bucks
Review: These games are presented in a manner befitting the Smithsonian. This is the electronic equivalent of Hollywood's silent films. Classics of design, where gameplay reigned supreme. It is hard to emphasize the legacy to which these titles have conditioned us. From the quirky Canyon Bomber to the supreme Tempest ( S video recommended ) the nostalgia will flow like a good Sauvignon. Anyone aged 30+ who ever used their lunch or laundry money as an expense account at the local arcade should be legally required to make this purchase.
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Summary: HORRIBLE
Review: THIS GAME IS HORIBLE YOU THINK THAT 20 YEARS LATER THEY WOULD HAVE FIXED THE SKIPPING AND FREAZING WELL THEY DID NOT MOST GAME ARE NOT EVEN THE SAME THING COMPLEAT WASTE OF MONEY IT SUCKS
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Summary: Atari Memories for Less Than the Cost of a Pizza
Review: This has got to be one of the best bargains I've ever found, and brings back special momories over 25 years old. I'm about 37 now in 2005, when I was in junior high at Bank Street in Manhattan, we would go around the corner to the local pizza parlor on Broadway near 112th after school to play Asteroids and Donkey Kong and have a slice of pizza. This game doesn't have Donkey Kong, as that was made by a different company than Atari, but it does have Asteroids and 79 other great games, including many of the original Atari console games and most of the original Atari arcade classics. I bought this especially for Missile Command. We would also go up to 116th St to a concert bar where they had Missile Command and a few other games. Thinking back, I'm surprised they let us in. But that was a different era, when we didn't suffer from the political correctness we do now. Anyway, Missile Command is PERFECTLY rendered here, just like it was on the original arcade console. And I discovered this disc also includes Lunar Landing, a classic arcade game that I loved playing years ago (it's EXACTLY the same as in the arcades), and other great games like Centipede. What is so incredible is that this disc is only seventeen bucks! Can you beat that?! It includes about seven categories of games including sports games and gambling games (of course it also includes the very first arcade game in history, Pong). I never really mastered Missile Command and other games because I could never afford continuing to feed quarters into these machines endlessly when I was a kid. And when I was young we couldn't afford an Atari game console at home, either. I used to play that at friends' houses. Those consoles used to cost like over a hundred and fifty dollars, but you can get all those games plus the original arcade games here for a song. This is a GREAT set of games, and even gamers who are accustomed to the modern PS2, Nintendo and XBox advanced games should buy this disc for a little history lesson, to get a little perspective on gaming, but mostly because these games are tremendously fun! This game set is an absolute steal.
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Summary: Best games I ever bought
Review: This is my first review. All of the games work perfectly. I loved ADVENTURE and have played it dozens of times so far. This was about the first RPG game, and it took me back so many years. At 25 cents per game, this is the best bargain in history. Skip the INTELLIVISION ten game pack for the pc. What a disappointment. The extras are wonderful also. Interviews with the founder of Atari are very interesting. My only complaint are that the instructions don't seem to be printable, but the games are not that difficult. Many of the progressive games have children's levels, which is about all that I can handle. Missile Command is fun when you can do more than two screens! The later games like Super Breakout have prettier colors, and are a blast. If you want to see video game history or want to go back to your youth, buy this fabulous collection. I can't make much progress on the arcade versions, but they are beautifully rendered. Quarter snatchers indeed!!!!
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