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Nov 24, 2004 · Packed with 85 old games from the Atari canon and available at a budget price, Atari Anthology is a great way to relive some of the high points of classic gaming. However, the less-than-perfect ...
- Xbox, Playstation 2
- Good emulation, bad presentation.
- Verdict
By Craig Harris
Updated: May 19, 2012 11:05 pm
Posted: Nov 30, 2004 12:34 am
Ever since Infogrames scarfed up the Atari consumer corporation a few years back and adopted the namesake, the company had been sitting on a goldmine of retrogaming goodness. Atari Anthology isn't the company's first repackage of classic games, but it is the first one the company has released on console gaming systems. It's more or less a PlayStation 2/Xbox edition of Atari 80 in One released on the PC last year, featuring the same line-up of games as well as supplemental material released at the time of each title's era. There's certainly a lot of bang for your buck in this package, what with more than six dozen games on a disk for $20. But compared to existing classic compilations, namely the outstanding Activision Anthology released on the PlayStation 2 back in 2002, Atari Anthology is a sloppy, cluttered presentation with a poorly handled organization that makes navigating to each of the 80 plus games a mind-numbing chore.
At the very least, Atari went to the right guys to bring this compilation to life on the console. Digital Eclipse earned its namesake in hardware emulation and was responsible for many successful retro packs across all the gaming platforms including its most recent classic production Midway Arcade Treasures 2. The company definitely has the staff "into" the classic gaming scene, both in a technical and historical sense. All of the pack's games, from the black and white vector games to the Atari 2600 games released well after the "death" of the hardware, are emulated near perfectly on the console system. There's also a mishmosh of scanned-in trinkets, instruction manuals, catalogs, and game-related comic books from back in the day, even a video interview with Nolan Bushnell, the man who gave birth to Atari the company back in the 1970s. So, the disk is certainly filled with "stuff."
What you get for $20:
Any way you cut it, 20 bucks for 85 games is a pretty damn good deal. But it's more quantity over quality in this package, as the development team just scattered all of this good stuff into an unorganized mess of a classic compilation. The old-school games deserve more respect than they're given here in Atari Anthology. As much history as these gam...
Jan 13, 2005 · Making Atari Anthology. For most of the games in the Atari Anthology we don't have any source code and emulation based on the ROMs is the only possible approach to recreate these games. On the Atari 2600, precise timing down to the microsecond level is crucial for getting the games even close to perfection.
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Nov 23, 2004 · Hey all, Maybe you all say I shoulda known better, or say I need a little more time to get used to it, but after a quick test drive (with a one-year-old fidgety daughter also in my arms) I gotta say that Atari Anthology is not that great. I guess I was expected a sister compilation to the almight...
Nov 16, 2004 · For video game console owners, no better value exists than Atari Anthology, which features 85 games that started a revolution, including 18 arcades games such as Asteroids, Battlezone, Missile Command, and Pong; 62 Atari 2600 games including Gravitar, Millipede and Super Breakout and five bonus titles, such as Off the Wall, Blackjack, Desert Falcon, Steeplechase and Sprintmaster. Adding an ...
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Nov 24, 2004 · Atari Anthology features an incredible number of games for a budget price, but the sometimes inaccurate presentation makes for a less-than-perfect experience.
