ATARI ANIVERSARY - (GAME BOY ADVANCE)

by Atari

Product Features

• This collection features six of the best Atari games from the golden age of arcades - Asteroids, Battlezone, Centipede, Missile Command, Super Breakout, and Tempest
• You can even compete to see who's the best two-player mode and a GameLink cable
• Then test your knowledge of video game history with the Atari Trivia Challenge!

Product Details

• ASIN: B00005V9NZ
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 5 x 1.1 inches ; 0.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,281 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

This anthology of classic Atari arcade games consists of Asteroids, Battlezone, Centipede, Missile Command, Super Breakout, and Tempest. With the press of a button, you can switch between vertical and horizontal screen orientations to suit your tastes. Each game is faithfully reproduced and is just as easy and fun to play as the original. The anthology also comes with an Atari trivia game.

Game Descriptions:

• Asteroids: A triangular spaceship blasts away at a crowded field of asteroids, breaking them into smaller, faster chunks with new, hazardous trajectories.
• Battlezone: Fire at enemy tanks and hoverships in a vector-drawn landscape from the viewpoint of a tank commander.
• Centipede: Keep the garden safe from spiders, centipedes, and other pests as they squirm around mushrooms and approach the bottom of the screen.
• Missile Command: Defend your city and its military bases by destroying ballistic missiles that rain down from above.
• Super Breakout: Break through a multicolored wall by batting a ball off a paddle to destroy it one brick at a time.
• Tempest: Stop all manner of aliens from breaching a 3-D cylinder by firing on them from the rim of your spacecraft.

Product Description

Atari Anniversary Edition is a complete set of the games that people remember with a smile, redone for a whole new world of gamers!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Walking down memory Lane without leaving your seat! =), June 24, 2002

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P. S. Rouse "catmom, reader, traveler, and so... (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ATARI ANIVERSARY - (GAME BOY ADVANCE) (Video Game)

My husband bought this for me when he saw excited I was over it. I too, am one of those 80s videogamers that dumped pocketsfull of quarters on such games as Asteroids, Galaga, Space Invaders, and Centipede.. So this game seemed like a must have!

The games included in this Gameboy Advance cartridge are: Asteroids,Battlezone,Centipede,Missile Command,Super Breakout, and Tempest.. As an added bonus, you will find a special Atari trivia game included so you can test your knowledge of those early geek days.. How well do you know your 70's game programers anyway?? =)

All the games are the same as you remembered them. They haven't been updated or rendered using newer technology. Honestly, if you want an upgrade, I can't imagine them being able to fit 6+ games on one cartridge,if they were needing to do the decent graphics and sound.

I played Centipede and it was a little difficult getting used to the smaller controls. The game was just as fun as I remember it and the Gameboy Advance screen does this game justice. I just wish my eyesight was as good as it was over twenty years ago! =)

Most all the games are the same.. some of the controls are difficult to use for the older games.. but on some you can adjust the actual alignment of play.. whether you want horizontal or vertical.. The Atari trivia game is fun. I really had to dig though the cobwebs of memory to recall some of the answers, and some you just won't know.. You lose the trivia game after getting 3 wrong answers. It's addictive though, and some of the same questions pop up, so you get another chance to get it right and learn more about the early days of game programming.

For the nostalgia trip alone it is worth it.. I don't think that folks used to playing arcade games in the last ten years would appreciate it nearly as much and not for the price..

21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars My kingdom for a trackball!, April 15, 2002

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Christopher J. Cross "Byff" (St. Louis, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ATARI ANIVERSARY - (GAME BOY ADVANCE) (Video Game)

... can only say that it's disappointing. It's not that the games aren't true to the original. They are, they're perfect copies. That is unfortunately where this cart goes wrong. The games look great but the gamePLAY suffers. Of the entire collection only Asteroids can be truly called fun to play. The others scream for their original controllers. Missle Command and Centipede (both orignally trackball games) are at best frustrating and difficult to control. After the first couple of levels on either game, it becomes impossible to keep up. Tempest and Super Breakout originally used a knob controller for smooth movement, Tempest succeeds best in this translation while Super Breakout is so difficult to control you cannot clear a single level. Battlezone? Well, to be fair I always hated Battlezone, this version is o.k. but the computer gets some really easy kills on you and it too becomes unplayable. As for the trivia game, no one should know this much about Atari. You'd have to be Rain Man to know the minutiae involved in this quiz. I really wanted to like this cart...

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, September 24, 2003

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steve (DeKalb, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ATARI ANIVERSARY - (GAME BOY ADVANCE) (Video Game)

I was eagerly anticipating being able to play some of my favorite arcade games from the early 1980s. Unfortunately, the reality of playing them on a Gameboy is sorely disappointing.

The trackball-based games, Centipede and Missile Command, are the biggest letdowns. Using the Gameboy's directional control to emulate a trackball just doesn't work. Centipede works adequately at first, but the inability to make swift moves quickly becomes a handicap. Missile Command is just unplayable. In the arcade version I would typically get a five-figure score; on the Gameboy I'm lucky to make it past the first level.

Battlezone is okay, but the small screen makes targeting much too difficult. I never played Super Breakout in the arcades, but as with Missile Command, the awkward controls make it nearly impossible. Asteroids and Tempest are probably the most successful of the bunch, but that isn't saying much.

The Atari trivia game is just bizarre. Do people really know the names of Atari's designers?