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Summary: The exact same games, only on a different system!
Review: Now you can relive those carefree days when you had a pocketful of quarters! This doesn't come with 6, but 12, 12(!) classic arcade games! See what happened in the years these games came out in the instruction booklets included in this package: Mount St. Helens eruption (uh-oh), popularity of polyester suits, the death of Elvis, Governer George Wallace assassinated and paralyzed, Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust" becomes a hit on the charts, MASH, Don McLean's "American Pie", A mass wedding for 2075 couples at the Unification Church's Sun Myung Moon, the opening of EPCOT in WDW, and a ton more!One CD holds 6 popular classics: Centipede (Shoot up those bugs and spiders before they get you. Don't get yourself ambushed!), Missile Command (Hurry up and stop these missles from destroying the major cities!), Pong (You've got head-to-head tennis. Don't take your eye off the ball!), Super Breakout (Can you really wipe out all the bricks without losing more than 3 baseballs??), Asteroids (That's a cool game, but why isn't it in color?), and finally Tempest (Oh gawsh, that game is hard!). You need more? There's a second CD waiting for you which contains other classics, though more forgotten: Millipede, Crystal Castles, Warlords (Now THAT'S a duel!), Battlezone (Hope Saddam Hussein doesn't catch you playing that game! Reminds me of the war in the Gulf 10 years ago.), Gravitar (You'll need a special joystick for that game. Otherwise, it is nearly impossible to play, Asteroids Deluxe (Want more asteroid action? Take that!), and uhhhh, that's about it for the games. Oh, and there are very unique and special features: video interviews, wallpaper, photos of old atari cartridges and artwork, and graphic enhancement (Just click on the arrow next to the game of your choice.) You can also customize the settings of the game: increase or decrease your number of lives, choose the game languages in English, French, Spanish, or German. Or else, if you feel like it, would you enable test mode? Another feature is that you get just about EVERY sound effect in 44 KHZ MONO wave files. Neat, huh? You can even use them as standard computer and internet sound files! If you're tired of those standard computer sound files (like AOL for example), you can pick one of these video game sound effects of your choice. Cool! Will Hasbro make anymore emulation from arcade games? Let's find out as time goes by. ABSOLUTELY RECOMMENDED FOR EVERY COMPUTER, ESPECIALLY LAPTOPS!
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Summary: Celebrate Atari's 30th Anniversary with the classics.
Review: The first thing I noticed when getting this collection is the gigantic silvery Atari Logo and the beautiful violet/blue box. When opening the box, I was happy that the whole collection is on just one CD instead two, like the Atari Arcade Classics package. A great instruction manual is included encompassing all the games,recapping the events in the year the game was released, and providing a brief description of the object of each game. A sticker is included with the Atari logo that looks great, but I would have liked it to be a little larger. This collection gets it right by teaming up with Digital Eclipse in emulating the game codes perfectly down to the last pixel It's too bad other companies don't take advantage of the talented team at Digital Eclipse (take the hint, Microsoft!) When you play the games, you'll be taken back to the time you played these games in the arcade. I wasn't much of a fan of them in the arcades, but this collection sure won me over. You don't even have to install the game on your hard drive; it will run off the CD. Customize the game to your liking (number of game lives, bonus lives, difficulty level, etc) and you can play in authentic mode or enhanced mode; enhanced mode makes for a more colorful game but I prefer the classic authentic mode. Desktop themes, screen savers and specialty fonts are the icing on the cake in this collection, though adding "Space Invaders" would have been nice (maybe they thought 13 was unlucky? Go figure!) This Anniversary Edition will make die-hard Atari fans happy and I hope they make more classic videogame collections. Bring it on, Atari!
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Summary: A computer arcade at the touch of a button!
Review: These are great classic arcade games yet I only give it 4-stars because the games wear off in fun easily. It comes back to you every once in awhile which is good because you don't want to buy something you hate! The timeless Asteroids and Pong make this a great PC collection, but I think Atari 2600 Jewel Case has to be the best series! Get it if you want a home arcade!
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Summary: Arcade games the way they use to be
Review: This game rocks. The arcade games have been MASTERFULLY reproduced. The Atari/Hasbro Missle command is EXACTLY like it was in the arcade machine. Microsoft did such a poor job in their arcade version of Missile Command. Im glad someone got it right. And right they did get it!
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Summary: Best [money] I have ever ever spent on a game
Review: This game rocks. The arcade games have been MASTERFULLY reproduced. The Atari/Hasbro Missle command is EXACTLY like it was in the arcade machine. Microsoft did such a poor job in their arcade version of Missile Command. Im glad someone got it right. And right they did get it!
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Summary: Windows XP Compatibility
Review: This is a nice package of games. Just one important note to add for Windows XP users: The system requirements don't mention if this software is compatible with Windows XP. Well CD Volume 1 does play under XP, but not well: The game play is choppy. I checked the Atari web site and tried some of their workarounds for XP but none seemed to help. So if you are running Windows XP be forewarned.
*** UPDATE - Volume 2 of this 2-CD set plays just fine under XP. ***
CD Volume 1 contains Asteroids, Centipede, Missile Command, Pong, Super Breakout, Tempest
CD Volume 2 contains Warlords, Asteroids Deluxe, Battlezone, Millipede, Crystal Castles, Gravitar
(Note: I'm running Windows XP Pro on a Pentium-3 733mHz with 384 meg RAM and 32 meg video card)
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Summary: Play the classics without having to play rip-offs!
Review: To many online game sites give you rip-offs of the classics. They give improved graphics and a changed story and concept line! The worst part is they say it is a "pretty good game!" But discovering this helped me alot. With twelve fun and easy-control classics, you can have so much fun! The keyboard and mouse do take away from the feel but you can always the controllers. I reccomend this to all nostalgia seekers!
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