Greatest Arcade Hits

by GameBoy

Product Features

• Four games
• Accurate game engines
• Cool, classic graphics
• One-player action

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00005RCQQ
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 5 x 1 inches ; 5 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 19, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,253 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

This title offers four Midway arcade classics for one price. The games are as you remember them: In Joust, you ride a flying ostrich and try to defeat other mounted knights by bumping them from above. Clear the screen of enemies, then move on to faster and tougher enemies. In Robotron, you run around on a playing field attempting to clear the screen of evil enemy Robotrons, all the while trying to save the last human family. Defender has you trying to eliminate all the alien forces in each stage while defending the lives of the humans scattered across the surface. In Sinistar, you battle unseen enemy drones who are building the ultimate evil--the Sinistar. Sinistar can only be stopped by bombs you make out of space crystals.

Product Description

You want classic action? Midway's Greatest Arcade Hits has your coin-operated excitement right here, delivering re-creations of 80s mega-hits. Sporting a decidedly sci-fi bent, the collection sends you to space in both DEFENDER and SINISTAR, and then whisks you off to the future for the likes of ROBOTRON 2084 and the inimitable JOUST. You don't have to remember the heyday of these 80s faves to get plenty of mileage from this collection.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I love the arcade versions, the GBA version stinks!, January 3, 2003

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Justin Keery "eljustinoid" (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Greatest Arcade Hits (Video Game)

This collection is a disaster I'm afraid. I have a real Defender machine in my kitchen and MAME is the only thing I play on my PC, so I know about these things!
Defender is a poor re-write, unlike the faithful reproductions (emulation?) in the Namco Museum cart. Defender's movement and "physics" are all wrong - very poor indeed.
Robotron is unplayable because there is no way to lock the direction you fire in (ie you can't fire backwards) - Jeff Minter came up with the simple idea of holding down the fire button to lock fire in a certain direction - shame these guys didn't copy the idea.
Joust seems like the most faithful reproduction, but maybe that's because I play more Defender. There is still plenty wrong with the Joust game as well :-(
Sinistar is too fast to play, but I am not an expert on this game.
I am a serious retrogame freak, but I'm going to take this piece of garbage back to the shop!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Stinks, February 23, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Greatest Arcade Hits (Video Game)

This is absolutely the worst arcade translation I've ever seen. Defender, Sinistar, Robotron, and Joust are great arcade games, and have been faithfully reproduced on other platforms, but this sad attempt bears little resemblance to the real things. That might be okay if the games in this implementation were playable on their own terms, but they're not. Defender/Joust for Gameboy Color is much better than this pathetic garbage.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars At lEast Joust and Robotron are good......, December 3, 2001

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M. O'Mara "Drathar" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Greatest Arcade Hits (Video Game)

The main problem with this game pack is the darkness of the Gameboy Advance screen. When I saw that this came with Joust, Robotron, and my favorite Defender (it also comes with Sinstar which I have never liked so my review does not apply to that one), I was ecstatic. Joust is good, but playing on that small screen makes it a little hard to see, but you get used to it. Robotron has the same problems as Joust, but you get used to it. Sadly Defender is the one that just doesn't cut it. It was a dark game in the arcade so you can imagine what it's like on the advance. Even with a light designed to work with the advance it is way too dark. I will keep playing it, but I won't enjoy it as much as I had hoped for.