Atari Greatest Hits
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Atari Greatest Hits: Volume 1 | |
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Developer(s) | Code Mystics |
Publisher(s) | Atari Interactive |
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Genre(s) | Various |
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Atari Greatest Hits: Volume 2 | |
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Developer(s) | Code Mystics |
Publisher(s) | Atari Interactive |
Platform(s) | Nintendo DS |
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Genre(s) | Various |
Mode(s) | Single-player, two player |
The Atari Greatest Hits series is composed of two compilations of retro Atari arcade games & Atari 2600 games ported to the Nintendo DS. While listed on the Atari web site as free for iOS & Android, Atari Greatest Hits has been removed from both app stores.
Reception
[edit]Volume 1
[edit]Writing for IGN, Craig Harris rated Atari Greatest Hits Volume 1 6 out of 10, and said that the 30 dollar price was too high. Harris noticed that the Nintendo DS's small screen can not properly display games with vector graphics, like Gravitar, Lunar Lander, and Asteroids, but he praised the title's "excellent multiplayer support" and "spot-on emulations".[1] Alex Morgen at GamingBits.com gave it 3.5 of 5 stars in a generally positive review. Harris and Morgen both said that many of the included titles would not hold gamers' attention for very long.[2] Nintendo Power rated it 5 out of 10, while Nintendo Gamer gave it 22 out of 100.[3]
Extras
[edit]Both volumes contain an art gallery of pictures from their playable arcade games, Atari 2600 manuals from their playable arcade games and credits that say the people who helped make them. Both volumes contain 2 other extras. While Volume 1 has a trivia game that gives players 20 randomly selected questions about Atari and Army Battlezone, a version of Battlezone commissioned by the US Army for Atari to train the gunners of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, Volume 2 has 8 interviews from Nolan Bushnell, including video and audio (although the interviews don't have similar buttons to many video hosters) & an Atari 400 Basic engine.[4]
Included games
[edit]Volume 1
[edit]Title | Arcade | 2600 |
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3D Tic-Tac-Toe | — | Yes |
Adventure | — | Yes |
Air-Sea Battle | — | Yes |
Asteroids | Yes | Yes |
Asteroids | Yes | Yes |
Atari Video Cube | — | Yes |
Basketball | — | Yes |
Battlezone | Yes | Yes |
The Bradley Trainer' | Yes | — |
Bowling | — | Yes |
Centipede | Yes | Yes |
Championship Soccer[a] | — | Yes |
Dodge 'Em | — | Yes |
Flag Capture | — | Yes |
Football | — | Yes |
Fun with Numbers | — | Yes |
Gravitar | — | Yes |
Hangman | — | Yes |
Haunted House | — | Yes |
Home Run | — | Yes |
Human Cannonball | — | Yes |
Lunar Lander | Yes | — |
Math Gran Prix | — | Yes |
Miniature Golf | — | Yes |
Missile Command | Yes | Yes |
Outlaw | — | Yes |
Pong | Yes | — |
RealSports Baseball | — | Yes |
RealSports Boxing | — | Yes |
RealSports Football | — | Yes |
RealSports Tennis | — | Yes |
RealSports Volleyball | — | Yes |
Sky Diver | — | Yes |
Slot Machine | — | Yes |
Slot Racers | — | Yes |
Space Duel | Yes | — |
Sprint Master | — | Yes |
Star Ship | — | Yes |
Stellar Track | — | Yes |
Submarine Commander | — | Yes |
Surround | — | Yes |
Swordquest Earthworld | — | Yes |
Swordquest Fireworld | — | Yes |
Swordquest Waterworld | — | Yes |
Tempest | Yes | Yes |
Video Checkers | — | Yes |
Volume 2
[edit]Title | Arcade | 2600 | Note |
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Asteroids Deluxe | Yes | — | |
Backgammon | — | Yes | |
Black Widow | Yes | — | |
BASIC Programming | — | Yes | |
Blackjack | — | Yes | 3 player support |
Brain Games | — | Yes | 2 player support |
Breakout | — | Yes | 2 player support |
Canyon Bomber | — | Yes | 2 player support |
Casino | — | Yes | 4 player support |
Circus Atari | — | Yes | 2 player support |
Codebreaker | — | Yes | 2 player support |
Combat | — | Yes | 2 player support |
Combat Two | — | Yes | 2 player support |
Concentration | — | Yes | 2 player support |
Crystal Castles | Yes | Yes | |
Demons to Diamonds | — | Yes | |
Desert Falcon | — | Yes | |
Double Dunk | — | Yes | 2 player support |
Fatal Run | — | Yes | |
Golf | — | Yes | |
Liberator | Yes | — | |
Major Havoc | Yes | — | |
Maze Craze | Yes | — | 2 player support |
Millipede | Yes | Yes | |
Night Driver | — | Yes | |
Off-the-Wall | — | Yes | |
Quadrun | — | Yes | |
Radar Lock | — | Yes | |
RealSports Basketball | — | Yes | 2 player support |
RealSports Soccer | — | Yes | 2 player support |
Red Baron | Yes | — | |
Return to Haunted House | — | Yes | |
Secret Quest | — | Yes | |
Sentinel | — | Yes | |
Space War | — | Yes | |
Star Raiders | — | Yes | |
Steeplechase | — | Yes | |
Street Racer | — | Yes | |
Super Baseball | — | Yes | 2 player support |
Super Breakout | Yes | — | |
Super Football | — | Yes | 2 player support |
Video Chess | — | Yes | |
Video Olympics | — | Yes | 4 player support |
Video Pinball | — | Yes | |
Warlords | Yes | Yes | 4 player support |
Yars' Revenge | — | Yes |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Better known as Pele's Soccer, the game is using its original title in this release
References
[edit]- ^ Harris, Craig (2010-11-08). "Atari Greatest Hits Volume 1 Review - IGN". IGN. Retrieved 2013-04-11.
- ^ Morgen, Alex (2010-11-10). "Atari Greatest Hits: Volume 1 review". GamingBits.com. Archived from the original on 2014-01-08. Retrieved 2013-04-11.
- ^ "Atari Greatest Hits Volume 1 for DS - GameRankings". GameRankings. Retrieved 2013-04-11.
- ^ Humphries, Matthew (2010-11-10). ">Review: Atari Greatest Hits Volume 1 for Nintendo DS". Geek.com. Archived from the original on 2014-04-28. Retrieved 2013-04-11.