If you remove the conversions from each volume’s 50 game assortment, plus the sports sims of negotiable worth, it soon transpires that each volume only has somewhere between 10-15 bonafide classics. The 2600’s rendition of Tempest was notoriously bad as the system was unable to recreate vector graphics. While fine for sake of comprehensiveness, almost every single 2600 conversion was inferior to the real deal. Tempest, Warlords, Centipede, Millipede, Asteroids, Missile Command, Gravitar, Super Breakout and Crystal Castles feature twice over as both their arcade and 2600 counterparts are present.
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We found this curiously pleasing, as it proves that developer Code Mystics (plug and play manufacture AT Games are also attributed, oddly) gained their sources from actual products.īoth volumes feature 50 games – 9 arcade conversions, with the remaining 41 comprising of Atari 2600 titles. It’s telling that they’re scans – and not mock-ups – as if you look closely some boxes have visible marks where price stickers once were. Each arcade game has an online leaderboards and some feature online play – something we didn’t expect – plus screen display options and colour scans of box art and manuals. It’s no mystery why both volumes are without a game list on the reverse of the case – each has a questionable amount of sports titles, with Vol 1 featuring no less than three American football sims.Įach volume is presented in the same way, right down to identical music on the main menu. That’s to say, each has its fair share of undisputable classics, a handful of curios and oddities and an awful lot of filler. We did consider giving each volume its own review, but after spending time with both it emerged that they’re very similar in terms of quality and content, which would have ultimately resulted in identical review scores. Let’s just ignore the fact that all 100 games present could easily fit on a single disc. After rattling the cages of retro fans with such inept endeavours as Asteroids: Outpost, Haunted House: Cryptic Graves and Alone in the Dark: Illumination, Atari has finally put their back catalogue to a more sensible use by bundling a bunch of classics together for these two budget ($19.99) complications.
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