Atari Arcade Hits #1 (Jewel Case)

by Atari

Product Features

• Features returning characters from the original, along with multiple new characters
• Nine new units for hire ranging from close assault troops to Roland SAM systems and even F-117 stealth bombers
• Receive new units and upgrades depending on the faction -- from Stinger infantry and Kiowa recon helicopters to the GUOS mine and BLU-144 bombs
• Advanced new AI adjust to players' attacks, upgrading units and analyzing terrain as needed
• Cutting-edge visuals raise the bar with post-treatment bloom effects, per-pixel and per-vertex shadow

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004VXAN
• Product Dimensions: 4.9 x 5.6 x 0.4 inches
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,035 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Game Features:

• 6 classic Atari arcade games and video interviews with original game designers
• Images of noteworthy memorabilia, original press releases, and more
• Each game has desktop themes (mouse pointers, screen saver, wallpaper, and more)
• Post your high scores to the Web
• Preview new 3-D Atari games

Product Description

Windows 98 and up New multiplayer options - Map wealth, resource sharing, super-weapons on/off, resource harvestig speed settings and unit lethality toggling

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Can I have another quarter? Can I have another quarter?, November 6, 2000

By 

Joseph Ekaitis "author of Collinsfort Village" (Southern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Atari Arcade Hits #1 (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

If, after you sink into these 6 classic Atari arcade games, you start to smell pizza or hear other voices, don't panic. It's just your mind bringing back memories of when you first played them. THAT'S how good these recreations are.

Compared to today's 3D arcade first-person shooters, these games might seem primitive but they can claim something that modern games can't: anyone and everyone played them. The controls were simple, usually consisting of a single knob or joystick and a couple buttons. You dropped in a quarter and you played.

When you went to the bowling alley or pizza parlor, you saw senior citizens standing shoulder to shoulder with teens at the PONG game. A father and daughter might be huddled in front of Tempest. A child barely tall enough to reach the trackball and buttons on Missile Command has already finished 12 levels. A grandmother has just been introduced to Asteroids and now, there's no tearing her away. A small crowd is gathering around the Super Breakout game because someone has just cleared a third wall of bricks on the first ball. And a weekend lawn warrior is exacting revenge on his leaf-munching adversaries in Centipede.

Those games live again, as does a feeling for what it was like to have lived back then, in Atari Arcade Hits. In addition to the exact recreations of 6 of Atari's landmark arcade games, the CD ROM includes a wealth of extra material including photos, promotional materials and over a half hour of Atari founder Nolan Bushnell reminiscing about the times. That segment was actually taped at the former Andy Capp's Saloon where the world was introduced to the first coin-operated PONG.

NOTE: Games requiring a knob or "paddle" controller are best played with a good quality trackball like the Logitech Marble Mouse Trackball, which I've reviewed elsewhere on Amazon.com

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Loads of fun!, December 29, 2001

By 

gtigrl "gtigrl" (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Atari Arcade Hits #1 (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

You'll have hours of fun laughing at how out of date these golden oldie Atari games now appear. Remember when we were SO intrigued by them? I'm happy to say these games are still fun to play.

Missle Command had me rolling on the floor! Pong is a nonstop laugh riot! The music on Asteroids is what does it for me most though.

Everything is in it's original form. You'll be so glad you have these games to play once again. They will bring you back to a time when technology had not yet gone out of control. They'll make you marvel at how far we have come!

Atari Arcade Hits #1 is definitely worth the ten bucks! PLAYER BEWARE: They may make you feel old.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Games., September 18, 2000

By 

Jonathan Senn (Coral Springs, Fl United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Atari Arcade Hits #1 (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

This has 6 classic games: Asteroids, Centipede, Missile Command, Tempest, Super Breakout, and Pong. I especially enjoyed pong. This is a great value, since versions of each of the games are sold by themselves for $20.