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- Space Invaders. One of the first shooting games ever, Space Invaders' lines of lurking aliens appeared in arcades before it became the first arcade game officially licensed for a console.
- Kaboom! Activision's Kaboom! (1981) became another million seller. The game starred a mad bomber who dropped bombs, which the player caught with three buckets at the bottom of the screen.
- Combat. Combat (1976) was one of the first Atari games. It contained 27 games in one, each representing different forms of combat, but all using tanks, jets, or biplanes as vehicles with weapons capability.
- Demon Attack. Imagic—a company that started with an "I" before starting with an "I" was cool—released Demon Attack (1982) for several consoles and computers, including Commodores, TRS-80, and of course, Atari 2600.
Dec 13, 2021 · 30 Best Atari Games, Ranked. Long before PlayStation, Xbox, Wii and even the classic Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), the various consoles produced by the Atari Corporation were the undisputed champs of home-based gaming.
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There’s technically a better way to play many of these games, and that’s on their original hardware. This is especially true for Atari in the 80s, who avoided joystick layouts almost entirely in their arcade games (e.g. Centipede’s trackball, Asteroids’ all-button control panel, Tempest’s spinner) and got even weirder with their home consoles like ...
There are some sad but likely necessary omissions from the Atari 50 collection: Atari’s masterpiece arcade game, Star Wars, and its vector sequel The Empire Strikes Back; Raiders of the Lost Ark for 2600; Alien vs Predator for the Jaguar. All of these, and many, many more beloved games based on popular licenses aren’t included here. You get E.T. th...
A highlight of Atari 50 are interviews with Atari employees, devs, and other creators. There are some incredible pieces of footage of the Pong factory in the early 1970s, and interviews with Atari’s founder Nolan Bushnell then and now. Long-standing, tall-seeming tales – like the first Pong machine prototype jamming up with quarters at a local bar ...
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- Pitfall! One of the best-selling titles on the seminal console, Activision's Pitfall! put the publisher on the map and showcased just how entertaining these downsized arcade ports could be.
- Combat. A pack-in title that shipped with almost every Atari console released before 1982, most gamers who grew up with the console likely have fond memories of battling friends and siblings in the iconic multiplayer title Combat.
- Kung-Fu Master. Originally released in 1984, the Atari 2600's Kung-Fu Master was a loose adaptation of the Jackie Chan movie Meal On Wheels, which debuted the same year.
- Pole Position. Compared to its arcade counterpart, 1982's Atari 2600 rendition of the hit game Pole Position was pretty lacking. That said, attempting to portray a real-world environment with any sense of depth on the console was ambitious, and the port definitely deserves praise for maintaining the look and feel of the original title given the extremely limited hardware on which it ran.
- Pitfall! (1982) deservedly takes the top spot in our list of the best Atari 2600 games! Those Microsoft Paint style graphics were the real deal back in the day, and even though games have quite clearly developed since the ’80s, this arcade classic is still up there amongst the greatest titles ever made.
- Donkey Kong (1982) Another game that hardly needs an introduction is Donkey Kong, the ladder climbing game in which ‘Jump Man’, a.k.a Mario has to save his beloved girl from the clutches of our banana-loving simian.
- Pac-Man & Ms Pac Man (1982/83) I couldn’t decide where to put Pac-Man and Ms Pac-Man, so I stuck them both together. Think of it as a ‘2-4-1’ offer.
- Mario Bros. (1983) This next title hardly needs any introduction. Many Mario games over the years have included this classic arcade game as an extra playable mode, helping to give gamers that ‘golden age of gaming’ experience.
Oct 24, 2024 · Atari 50 is a celebration of 50 years of Atari games and consoles - here are the best games included. And while the games of the Atari 2600 may feel quite archaic by today’s standards, the system’s very best demonstrate the creativity of developers working within extremely confined limitations.
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Jan 25, 2013 · The 10 best Atari games. These are the games we're most nostalgic for from the legendary company. By Aaron Morales. Updated on February 23, 2024 01:24PM EST. Ms. Pac-Man. Photo: ATARI....
