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Excellent Atari real games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Wow, when I start the PS2 with this game is just amazing remember about a lot years ago when I play on Atari console, the execution of the games are full screen, and I bonus you'll find the real cartdriges images like was Atari old cassettes, machines and included a video from the creator of Atari. If you want to play again the Atari's games you have to get this. I bought here at amazon.com and in just 2 days can play.

Great value for nostalgia freaks

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Atari Anthology offers up 85 (yes, 85) games from the console glory days of Atari. There's plenty of games you'll no doubt remember like Pong, Missle Command, Centipede, Asteroids, Yars' Revenge, and plenty of others to boot. There's also some games you may not remember like Double Dunk, Backgammon, and Atari Adventure; so for this compilation's price tag alone, you are getting a great value. That being said though, not all the games are perfect emulations. There are noticible differences in terms of sound effects and graphical glitches that occur now and then that were never prevelant before, but besides that and some control issues, most of the games play like they did back then. Other than that, if you weren't around back in Atari's glory days, there's really no reason to give Atari Anthology a look unless you want to check out some video game heritage, but for those who have fond memories of these games, this is an awesome pickup.

Atari does NOT make a good transfer to PS2 here

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 17
Date: January 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought "Atari Anthology" primarily for "Asteroids" and "Tempest". While I must admit, it was definitely fun to see these games again, they were somewhat of a disappointment. Not that I've been spoiled by PS2's recent high tech games of 2003-04, but because the game play from this Anthology was just bad. First, on "Tempest" as well as "Asteroids", there's a huge blue inanimate bordor around the screen. Thus, it makes my 36 inch TV screen look like a 27 inch. Second, when I pressed the buttons on my PS2 controller, the games just didn't move very well for me (while playing "Tempest", the little thing you have to move around in a circle/shape is very hard to do utilizing all 4 PS2 buttons on the controller). Other games featured this useless bordor as well, and others (mostly) from the Atari '2600' system did not. The picture itself seems dull. I remember "Asteroids" being so basically simple - yet the little triangular white ship and the white boulders flying across the screen were so sharp against the black background. My 20/20 eyes don't see these shapes very sharp (almost blurry) at all on this game. The sound is also lacking... like it's totally MONO sound quality. The cover of this game boasts 85 game titles (18 of which were actually found in the arcades)... but after you play a majority of them once, I guarantee you'll probably never look at them again. Definitely a fond throw back to see games I grew up on; like "Missile Command", "Battlezone", "Red Baron", "Centipede", and even the grandaddy of them all, "Pong". However, as stated before, the game play is difficult on most, the picture quality is average at best, and the sound is poor... overall a poor representation for PS2. Looking for a halfway decent attempt to bring back some of the old classic games - check out "Museum" by Nameco (featuring "Galaga" and "Dig Dug" - both look and sound great).

The games that started it all...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Remember the days when you'd wait on line in the arcade to play those early classics like Asteroids and Missle Command? Do you know all the secret warps in (one of my all-time faves) Crystal Castles? Did your mind become a steel trap when doing your best to kill that Centipede? If so, this is the collection for you: 18 arcade originals, plus a whopping 80 titles from the Atari VCS, including home versions of most of those same arcade titles...while the VCS compilation didn't do much for me, not having jumped on the home system bandwagon until the late 80s, it's still fun if you wanna see how much technology has improved in the last 25+ years, yet these first home video games w/their simple graphics and SFX were once considered state-of-the-art(!). All told, it's a great find for anyone who wants a firsthand look at the genre's first true "Golden Age".

atari anthology

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love it!!!! It brings back a really good part of my childhood. Thank you.

Average game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: November 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

i just bought this game and have been playing it there are great arcade games my favorite Tempest. I was surprised and disppointed with atari, this complicaton lacks good sound quality , and the two player options with the same controller and the lack of better arcade games were is Kangaroo that was a great Arcade game. Atari needs to go back and look at there ps1 game Atari Anniversary Edition Redux which i highly recommend for better options and sound quality of there Arcade hits

Take a step back in time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This was a Yule gift for the grandkids. They love it. Lots of different games so they never get tired of it. A great selection for kids of all ages.

Carefull with this one

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: December 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

There were many complaints about the pc version. The Xbox version is messed up too. The one game I wanted,Red Baron,dosen't work at all on the computer and on Xbox it messes up if you turn to hard. The tanks and obsticles in Battlezone are black against a black background. The Xbox sound effects don't sound quite right either. And still no 2600 Basketball.

Great flashback

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a great collection of the old favorites we all grew up on.

Rose-colored glasses for some, rose colored stop light for me.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: June 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The Atari 2600 was a great system. Atari was a great company, almost unquestionably the most important in turning video games into commonplace items. There are some games for the Atari 2600 that, true to their old school arcade roots, are all about challenging, addicting game play. Atari developed very few of these. This could have been a great collection if they had also snatched up the rights to excellent third party games like Reactor and Solar Fox, but instead you're mainly left wondering where those nostalgic feelings for Circus Atari came from. Two Stars, one for the Swordquest comic, and the second because Tempest is still incredible. Go buy the Activision collection instead.

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