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Old school classics!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Like many of the reviewers, I had the issue of the game not working. I was about to throw it in the garbage, but figured I'd check here to see if others had the same problems. Thank God for Amazon reviews! I downloaded the patch, and now everything works just fine. A nice compilation of some classic arcade games. I do hate that you have to insert the CD-ROM to use the program, but this certainly isn't the only program that does that.

Great Buy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great collection of old arcade games- perfect replicas of the originals
Got it used for $5.
Was worried about computer compatibility (windows XP notebook), not because of the disc- just everything on a PC is a pain.
People- don't blame software for your hardware problems !
Using a microsoft gamepad- finding that the mouse is quicker for the shooting games though. Everything is working great !
Would have been nicer to play on the Tv/ nintendo gamecube/wii- but its not available for those and didn't want to buy another game system.

Solid collection of arcade favorites, and then some

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First, ignore the one star reviews, as there is a patch available that fixes the crashing problem.

Second, Bubble Bobble and Space Invaders are both on this collection, two of Taito's biggest arcade games, and that's a great start. However, the lesser known gems are the real highlights of this collection, with puzzlers like Tube It and Qix or the action-platformer Rastan. There are other games that haven't withstood the test of time on here as well, but they are fewer in number.

Controls in most of the games translate very well to the mouse and/or keyboard with a few exceptions. None of the games in the collection used some of the more exotic control schemes available on arcade cabinets; the most unusual one emulated here is the good old trackball, which is easily (though naturally not perfectly) replicated with mouse control.

The bottom line is that if you or someone you know is a fan of 80s or 90s arcade games then this collection is possibly the best value for the money, as it can be found for $5-$10 easily nowadays. That's a fantastic price for Bubble Bobble alone, and with everything else in this compilation it's stupendous.

Legendary Review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I really only bought this game for one game - Bubble Bobble. I used to play it on an NES system. I love this game but have also found many more that I love to play that I never knew about. If you love classic arcade / platform games, you will love this game.

WORKED!! Brought back some memories too...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this June, 2007, with latest updates of Windows XP and Apple Bootcamp installed. After reading the reviews here before purchasing, I had Google up and running and was ready to chase down the software patch after installation but never had to do this. I don't know if the latest XP already has a patch or if it's because I am running on a Mac (XP side of course) but this worked right out of the gate! Playing many games I remember like Jungle Hunt, Phoenix and of course... Space Invaders! But also finding a lot of games I had never run across!

No problems!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

game play is great, I'm able to use my pc game pad it works great, never needed a patch like all these other clowns game ran fine right out of box maybe its cause I use a 512mb video card maybe its cause I build my own pc's maybe I'm a jerk but the games play fine. phoenix rules ya!

Game Never Worked!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Do not waste your money. I was never able to get the game to work. I would have rated it with all "0" but the lowest rating is "1".
Sega support was no help--I never talked to a human being.

WORTHLESS!!!

DO NOT BUY

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Does not load on my new PC, running XP, meeting all of the "system requirements". Sega offers NO support.

Patch works

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: July 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game just so I could play Gladiator again...it was everything I remembered it to be. As far as I can tell all the games are exact emulations of the arcade originals, so if you're the sentimental type you'll definitely take a trip back in time.
I also had the problem of it not working on Windows XP, so I searched for the patch that another reviewer mentioned and found it very easily. After installing the patch everythign worked just great. I downloaded it [...]Alright, back to Gladiator...

Fun for parents and kids

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

At first after reading the other reviews I was thinking of not buying the game at all. But I found a site on which there were patches for the game. So I decided to buy the game (european version). After delivery I installed the game on a windows ME pc and it worked very well. Also on my Xp pc it is still working very well and I enjoy the old games very much as do my daughters. If you like the old arcade games this is definitely a gamepack you should buy

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