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Post by Pimpjira on Jul 3, 2016 0:42:24 GMT
Vol.1 - Includes: Adventure, Asgo Concentration, Asteroids, Asteroids (Arcade), Asteroids Deluxe (Arcade), Basic Math Blackjack, Breakout, Casino, Championship Soccer, Checkers, Chess, Code Breaker, Crystal Castles, Crystal Castles (arcade), Demons to Diamonds, Double Dunk, Flag Capture, Golf, Gravitar, Gravitar (arcade), Hangman, Haunted House, Major Havoc (arcade), Maze craze, Missile Command, Missile Command (Arcade), Night Driver, Off the Wall, Outlaw, Race, Red Baron (arcade), Return to Haunted House, RS Baseball, RS Basketball, RS Tennis, Secret Quest, Sentinel, Sky Diver, Spacewar, Sprint (arcade), Starship, Stellar Track, Street Racer, Sub Commander, Super Breakout, Super Breakout (Arcade), Surround, V Pinball, and Video cube. Vol.2 - Includes: 3D Tic Tac Tow, Air Sea Battle, Backgammon, Basketball, Black Widow (arcade), Bowling, Brain games, Canyon bomber, Centipede, Centipede (arcade), Circus Atari, Combat, Combat 2, Desert falcon, Dodge-em, Fatal run, Football, Homerun, Human cannonball, Liberator (arcade), Lunar lander (arcade), Millipede, Millipede (arcade), Minigolf, Pong (arcade), Quadrun, Radar lock, RS Volleyball, RS Boxing, RS Football, RS Soccer, Save Mary, Slot machine, Slot racers, Space duel (arcade), Sprint master, Star raiders, Steeplechase, Stunt cycle, Super baseball, Super football, Sword quest EW, Sword quest FW, Sword quest WW, Tempest, Tempest (arcade), Video Olympics, Warlords, Warlords (arcade), Yars' revenge I have not played many Atari games so for some of you more familiar wonder what you think of the games included and if there is a chance of them playing well on an PS or Xbox controller. Seems like a decent collection maybe for 20 bucks each.
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Post by stratogustav on Jul 3, 2016 8:06:57 GMT
Volume 2 looks like the one I'll like more. However knowing me if I get the second I'll have to get the first one too. They both sound awesome, lots of cool games. Thanks for the heads up. I wouldn't know about this otherwise.
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Post by dschult3 on Jul 3, 2016 14:25:32 GMT
Volume 2 looks like the one I'll like more. I agree here. I wonder how games without the Trak Ball and the Paddle Controllers will be like with the analog sticks? |
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Post by Balder on Jul 3, 2016 18:04:40 GMT
There are some weird choices here. Blackjack, Basic Math, Chess and Backgammon aren't exactly classics.
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Post by stratogustav on Jul 3, 2016 23:38:43 GMT
dschult3 Yes, to see how the controls handle will be interesting indeed. Balder I guess nowadays as long as they are old they are classics, which means E.T. is a big classic.
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Post by Balder on Jul 3, 2016 23:43:33 GMT
dschult3 Yes, to see how the controls handle will be interesting indeed. Balder I guess nowadays as long as they are old they are classics, which means E.T. is a big classic. No, nobody wants to play Basic Math for fun, only for the amusement that such a game exists. It doesn't belong in a compilation pack. |
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Post by stratogustav on Jul 3, 2016 23:46:38 GMT
Honestly if they compile every single game I wouldn't want any game to be left out.
However they can't do that for copyright issues. Otherwise you would see a compilation with the biggest AAA games in one single volume.
So I guess those games simply serve as fillers.
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Post by Balder on Jul 3, 2016 23:49:17 GMT
Honestly if they compile every single game I wouldn't want any game to be left out. However they can't do that for copyright issues. Otherwise you would see a compilation with the biggest AAA games in one single volume. So I guess those games simply serve as fillers. Then just release a single volume with just good games and no fillers. |
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Post by stratogustav on Jul 3, 2016 23:57:55 GMT
They can make twice as much money with fillers. That's why they probably do it like that.
Also there is a chance the people making these compilations may not even know what all the hits are, and just have a vague guess of which ones are the top sellers.
Were all these published by Atari? If that's the case then it would make more sense why they have to add unpopular ones.
As long as they were part of the ones they published, they would have to add them to complete the collection.
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Post by dschult3 on Jul 4, 2016 3:53:11 GMT
Well, outside of Atari, Activision was the best publisher for games. Without Activision, a lot of the greats are missing from the list.
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Post by stratogustav on Jul 4, 2016 9:57:45 GMT
Activision had the best graphics too. They were really good at making games convincing.
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Post by Balder on Jul 4, 2016 10:10:23 GMT
Activision's programmers were originally from Atari, but they split and made their own company. They were pretty good, sad to see that they aren't too popular anymore.
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Post by stratogustav on Jul 4, 2016 10:51:34 GMT
They are still popular. They had always been. Tony Hawk, Guitar Hero, Call Of Duty, Skylanders, a lot of licensed games, Blizzard.
What happens is that they don't appeal to our crowd anymore, with the exception of a few games like The Legend Of Korra, Transformers Devastation, Mutants In Manhattan, etc., and even then, some of those good games end up coming rushed and incomplete.
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Post by Pimpjira on Jul 4, 2016 15:39:37 GMT
It's too bad, a lot of the Atari games I'm really interested in are from Activision. Might just have to pick up the console and some games one day.
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Post by Balder on Jul 5, 2016 13:40:02 GMT
Enduro, Fishing Derby, both Pitfalls and River Raids are some of my favorite Activision games for the 2600. Love 'em!
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