For anyone like me, who is a fan of the retro games and the retro gaming era, you'll probably be pre-ordering, buying or downloading the upcoming classic compilation Atari Greatest Hits: Volume 1. I've always been a fan of the Atari 2600 among the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Genesis so I'm looking forward to this. But I am curious to know what the fifty titles in the collection are going to be. Aside from staples like Pong, Centipede, Asteroid, Battlezone and Haunted House. Does anyone know if there's a link or a webpage with a list of the 50 titles, hopefully confirmed by Atari? And if not, discussion time. What games are hoping to see in the collection?
The complete Atari’s Greatest Hits: Volume 1 line-up is as follows: * Atari Arcade Hits Asteroids, Battlezone, Centipede, Gravitar, Lunar Lander, Missile Command, Pong, Space Duel, Tempest. * Atari 2600 Favorites 3D Tic-Tac-Toe, Adventure, Air-Sea Battle, Asteroids, Atari Video Cube, Basketball, Battlezone, Bowling, Centipede, Championship Soccer, Dodge ’Em, Flag Capture, Football, Fun with Numbers, Gravitar, Hangman, Haunted House, Home Run, Human Cannonball, Math Gran Prix, Miniature Golf, Missile Command, Outlaw, Realsports Baseball, Realsports Boxing, Realsports Football, Realsports Tennis, Realsports Volleyball, Sky Diver, Slot Maching, Slot Racers, Sprintmasters, Starship, Stella Track, Submarine Commander, Surround, Swordquest Earthworld, Swordquest Fireworld, Swordquest Waterworld,Tempest and Video Checkers. Source: http://worthplaying.com/article/2010/8/25/news/76443/
Every atari rom is only like 12 mibs...XD It seems he wants this for the DS tho, and some of those games have no emus, StellaDS (atari) and AemioDA (vector stuff) do some of those, but not all. And I have NEVER gotten AemioDA to find the godd*mn roms.
Even an old-schooler like me has a hard time appreciating many of the 2600 games nowadays. The games are just far too primitive to hold my interest. And yeah, they could put every 2600 game ever made onto a DS cart and would still have room to spare. I can't justify even considering paying $30 for just a mere fraction of the games from the 2600 library, let alone 2 separate volumes, at $30 each. I have ALL the 2600 ROMs on my PC, the folder only takes up a little over 16MB, and that's unzipped. If you eliminate all the multiple variations of any given ROM and have only one version of each game (instead of a dozen variations of each game with a little bracket code at the end) it would be less than half that size. They could put ALL the 2600 games ever made on one small 8meg DS cart. Then $30 would be more-than-fair price. I usually applaud compilations as giving value for the money, but I just don't see any value in this particular compilation. More like a fleecing. At least the upcoming Intellivision Lives compilation is only going to be $15, and it has some games that are actually fairly deep for the era the games were made. Keep in mind that there also isn't any DS emulator for INTV games, so the value of that compilation is obvious. Most 2600 games were far too shallow or abstract to expect people to pay full price for the compilation. And then having the gall to do it again with a volume 2 is just shameless. Now if they put volume 1 and 2 together, a $30 price might be a little easier to swallow, but as it is, it seems like a huge ripoff to me. I already have most of these games fully playable through Stella on my flashcart as it is. What possible reason would I have to need their overpriced compilation.....in 2 volumes.....at $30 a pop?
You've forgotten mister copyright, it would be near impossible for every 2600 developer to come to terms to sell one game full of all the 2600 carts for any console.
I'm not a big fan of Stella 2600 but I could download the collection yes. But if there's another Atari 2600 emulator I could play them while I waited for the DS game to release.
That's a moot point. I said they COULD fit ALL the ROMs on one small DS cart, not that they would, or even should, just that it's possible. I KNEW someone would mention licensing issues, I just knew it. : Heh, maybe we'll get lucky and be able to inject other 2600 ROMs in to the pack. At least then, we could eliminate the pure crap games and replace them with better ones. Wouldn't surprise me if they purposely obscure the files within the ROM so you couldn't do that though.....or do something strange like what was done with the Sonic Collection.
Or instead of spending their time throwing rom files in and WRITING emulators for the 2600 and Atari-Vector hardwares, or using StellaDS and AEMIODA, They might just PORT them Honestly, the best A2600 collection you'll get portable is probly the ACTIVISION ANTHOLOGY for GBA. EVERY atari 2600 game Activision made is on there, and they WERE the 2600's best developer.
