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Atari Anthology
Xbox
Released On: Nov 16, 2004
68
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
68
40% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
47% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
13% Negative
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2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
68
40% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
47% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
13% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
If you love retro throw backs, this is one of the best collections I've ever played. Atari Anthology is cheap, it is loaded with bonus features, and it comes packed with some of the biggest video games of all time!
Not every game is a winner, as some selection and control issues get in the way. Still, this is a tremendous value with hours upon hours of replay, and it's a great history lesson for those who think everything began with Nintendo.
Atari Anthology will prove two things to anyone who buys it; that Atari was truly an arcade force to be reckoned with, and that they had terrible problems developing titles for their own console.
But if you know the difference between a Mame emulator and a Lame encoder, this could be right up your eight-colour alley.
The problem is - here it comes - the painfully oversensitive controls mar the nostalgia. [Feb 2005, p.92]
Gamers under about the age of 25 will frankly be utterly amazed at how basic things were back then, while those old enough to have owned (and who knows, maybe loved) a 2600, or hung around the arcades will have a few hours of curiosity sated before moving well and truly on.
The way forward is to embrace the future, and let the games of old contained on this disc finally Rest In Peace. [Xbox World]
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Summary 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, De...
Rated E
for Everyone
Platforms:
- Xbox
- PlayStation 2
Initial Release Date: Nov 16, 2004
Developer:
- Digital Eclipse
Publisher: Atari SA
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