Retro Atari Classics
November 5th, 2009 | 
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- Features 10 classic Atari video games
- Play in Classic or Remix Mode
- Multiplayer games played across the dual Nintendo DS screens
- Four-Player wireless Multi-Card play
- Games Included – Centipede, Missile Command, Asteroids, Pong, Breakout, Sprint, Tempest, Warlords, Gravitar, Lunar Lander
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Man,I got this game for Christmas and the games are so boring.And the games are so old.
Rating: 2 / 5
Man,I got this game for Christmas and the games are so boring.
Rating: 2 / 5
This is a fairly good ds game. I don’t quite understand why everybody hates it. Just give it a chance. Now don’t take me as a “thinking every game is good” kind of kid. I’ve reviewed Resident Evil 4, DMC 3, Doom 3, Half-Life 2, all of the Silent Hill games. So anyways, this is a very good game. It does have it’s cons though. The remixes are very disappointing, being the same exact thing as the regular versions, just new characters. All in all this is a very good ds game. It is the 3rd best DS game that I own and I own 4 DS games. It is worse than Feel the Magic and Warioware Touched, but better than the “not very good at all” Yoshi’s touch and go. That is all.
Rating: 4 / 5
I just bought this and though some of the games are very true to form like Asteroids, Pong, Break-Out, and Lunar Landing you go away with the feeling of how basic our games were in the 1980’s, tho that never stopped me from stuffing quarters into them. Of course many of our old games were a challenge back then but we’ve really come a long way. My favorite was always Missile Command which was the reason I picked this up. Unfortunately, I was disappointed with this incarnation of the arcade legend. With the original game, and to a lesser degree even the original Game Boy Missile Command, you could control which base to fire your missiles. Not so here and you can’t control which base launches your missiles. It’s a free-for-all which prevents the standard strategy of using a spread of missiles using the base the farthest from your cursor (which starts at the opposite end of the side you choose, this way you can let loose an even spread of missiles workng your way back to the firing base). The graphics are great but why the heck couldn’t the manufacturer have kept with the basic defensive concept of the game?
If you stunk at games like Tempest and Lunar Landing then guess what…not much will have changed. I still can’t land that damn lander in Lunar Landing and still not sure what is going on with Tempest! Asteroids is very good but I was never a big fan of it during its heyday, preferring Pac-Man, Gorf, Missile Command, and Space Invaders Deluxe.
So, this was a nice blast from the past, but I’ll wait for the Namco Museum release and keep my fingers crossed that it has a higher replay value.
I bought the DS to keep up with legacy games like Zelda, Metroid, and FPS’ like MOH and COD–all of which I’m still waiting to be released. I like the concept of the DS, but for the most part the time I find for portable gaming (I travel a lot on business) is spent on my PSP.
Rating: 3 / 5
ok this compilation is ok. i’ll admit that i’m a sucker for classics and that’s why i got this. the first few days with this were really fun just expieriencing the classics. the next couple weeks i didn’t play this that much… and now well a couple months after i bought it i barely play it. simply because i don’t think that these games are as addicting now as they were then. games like castle and breakout are fun but are you really gonna sit down and play this for ages? in addition the games in super mario ds are more engaging and varied so i play those more often. this is fun but i reccomend buying it onsale because it’s simply not worth $30. i’d pay $15 for it but not $30…
Rating: 3 / 5