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Activision Hits Remixed

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If you're not an old-school Atari addict, you won't be entertained with this release from Activision. If you do love all things Atari, then this release will bring back some much loved 2600 memories.

Onto the list of games packed into this release:

1. Atlantis

2. Barnstorming

3. Beamrider

4. Boxing

5. Bridge

6. Checkers

7. Chopper Command

8. Cosmic Commuter

9. Crackpots

10. Decathlon

11. Demon Attack

12. Dolphin

13. Dragster

14. Enduro

15. Fishing Derby

16. Freeway

17. Frostbite

18. Grand Prix

19. H.E.R.O.

20. Ice Hockey

21. Kabobber

22. Kaboom!

23. Keystone Kapers

24. Laser Blast

25. Moonsweeper

26. Megamania

27. Oink!

28. Pitfall!

29. Pitfall 2

30. Plaque Attack

31. Pressure Cooker

32. Private Eye

33. River Raid

34. River Raid 2

35. Robot Tank

36. Seaquest

37. Skiing

38. Sky Jinks

39. Space Shuttle

40. Spider Fighter

41. Stampede

42. Starmaster

43. Tennis

44. Thwocker

The 80's soundtrack has some classic hits as well, but is limited to only twelve songs:

1. "We're Not Gonna Take It" - Twisted Sister

2. "It's My Life" - Talk Talk

3. "Mexican Radio" - Wall of Voodoo

4. "Tainted Love" - Soft Cell

5. "Walking in L.A." - Missing Persons

6. "The Tide is High" - Blondie

7. "Always Something There to Remind Me" - Naked Eyes

8. "Pulling Mussels (From A Shell)" - Squeeze

9. "Take On Me" - A-Ha

10. "Harden My Heart" - Quarterflash

11. "No More Words" - Berlin

12. "Safety Dance" - Men Without Hats

Plaque Attack and We're Not Gonna Take is my favorite combination so far...

This is yet another version of the Activision collection of games originally designed for the Atari 2600 Video Computer System back in the early 1980s. Like those versions, this serves as a nice museum piece to showcase these old games, featuring advertising and art for manuals, boxes and patches. Like the Playstation 2 version, about an album's worth of pop music from the era (optionally) plays in the background while you play, as if you had a boombox by your television set (as the interface implies you would).

Activision's games had a well-deserved reputation for:

- Originality: Unlike many games of the era, they did not rely on licensed familiar characters or arcade licenses. These creations were innovative, quirky, and usually very fun.

- Technical excellence: Despite being fast action games, none of these games displayed the flickering so often seen in other games designed for the primitive VCS. They use bright colors, fast scrolling, and other effects previously thought impossible.

- Replayability: Activision's games were a forerunner of XBOX Live's "Achievement" system, where you could earn embroidered patches by reaching certain goals or scores in their games. In the 1980s, you would need to take a photograph of your television and mail it to the company. This collection simulates this by keeping a bulletin board with all of your patches. No, you don't get to put them on your jacket, but at least you don't need a Polaroid camera, either.

The emulation of the games in this collection is very good, as we have come to expect from retro experts at Digital Eclipse. All games run at full speed with accurate sound. When stretched into fullscreen mode, the graphic filtering softens the edges of the pixels, which is attractive but makes everything look a bit fuzzy. I would have liked the option to keep everything sharp and jaggy. Alternatively, you can run the games in a window with an ugly but functional "heads-up display" that displays your control options in an intuitive way. This mode makes some of the more complex/abstract games like Space Shuttle much easier to follow since you don't have a paper manual for reference.

A few Imagic games are thrown in for good measure (Demon Attack, Atlantis, and Moonsweeper), which are great. It's always good to have more games on this sort of thing, but it's possible that Activision doesn't have the rights to all of them.

Conspicuously absent from the collection are the fan-made "homebrew" games that appeared on the GameBoy Advance, Windows, and Macintosh versions of this game. They were weird, creative, and fun ... but they aren't here. That's a disappointment, but the Activision games stand on their own.

If you're a fan of the old Atari games and you have a PSP, you'll want this collection, but if you already have another version, this one doesn't bring anything new. If you're too young to know what Atari and Activision were all about, this would teach you, but be warned: these games are OLD and it's probably more like a trip to a museum than to a modern game store! Once you look past the ancient technology, however, you'll find a bevy of well-designed, fun, simple games here, perfectly suited to quick bursts of play.

The big blocky graphics,the very simple mono sound,yes it's back to the Atari 2600 era once again with this awesome little game for the PSP!!! Activision Hits Remixed is a great way to play these highly addictive games on your tiny PSP!!! Yes the graphics are just as the were in the early 80's!!! But the 80's soundtrack that plays in the background is also cool,it can also be toggled off if you don't want the music dancing in your head as you play such "classics" as Pitfall 1 and 2,Laser Mission,Stampede,Barnstorming,River Raid 1 and 2,Ice Hockey,Dolphin,Oink,and the list goes on and on,these are 40 games on this tiny little PSP disc,a lot more compact than having stacks of old 2600 games that take a lot of space,this little gem can fit in the palm of your hand and is housed in a PSP case smaller than a traditional DVD case!!! This great game also includes unlockable content(like TV commercials and patches) that that is unlocked once you achieve certain goals for certain games,not every game has unlockable content,but many of them do!!!Recommended for fans of these great classics from the video game "Stone Age"!!! But hey,there still fun,simple and challenging!!! Two very tired PSP thumbs up!!! Five stars!!! A+

This set would been much better and complete if they included Intellivision titles. Activision made a few version for Intellivision and were far superior and very enjoyable. They made Pitfall, River Raid and a few others. Plus Activision who owns Imagic...well Imagic's Intellivision games were asweome! Atlantis, Micro surgoen, Demon Attack, Beauty and the Beast, SafeCracker, ect ect. If you ever played the Imagic's games on Intellivion, you'd never play the crummy 2600 games. They certainly had the space to throw the extra games in, just a shame they didnt.

I originally purchased this mainly for Pitfall and Pitfall 2. With Seaquest and River Raid as part of this package, as well as many more, I forgot how much fun the old Atari classics are. I'm in my mid 40's and I love love playing this as much as some of the new releases for the PSP. A lot of fun for all you Atari fans.

I'm old school- so I couldn't pass on the opportunity to play a few games from the 80's. Unfortunately, there are only a handful of games that I actually play, but they are playable and replayable for hours at a time!

my son brought this for his psp and he plays it for hours on end

The Games are ok. The graphics are old and some of the games are boring.