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Just to put it clear

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The thing with games that are not listed here, is not like they aren't atari games, they were but, after the video game crash of 1983, well there are other companies that bought the rights of the games that were rightfully theirs, as activision did with demon attack and atlantis, the games belonged to a company named imagic that couldn't stay in the market after the crash and activision bought the rights for those games, and well, Activision was the only survivor of the Video Game Crash, for some reasons i won't say here, but well, do your homework and get the info on what happened in 1983.

Have a nice day and i hope it helped.

P.S. If you want to play pac man or the other titles not listed here i suggest you check on the classics of namco, activision, etc to get the other great games you want to play again.

I can say on other thing, the warning of a review listed here is so true, after you see the date on some games (1982 or less), well, you can see that 25 years have passed and well... they where a good 25 years and the good thing is that you're still gaming.

Old School Style

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love these games, I've played these games when I was 4 yrs old. This have the original 2600 classics and the Arcade versions too. The 2600 versions I like the most. If you're looking for Atari games, you should buy this.

It's worth every penny

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Hours of fun. Flawless installation. What more can you ask. I never played Black Widow before I found it here. What a wonderful game! Battle Zone was one of my all-time favorites and plays exactly as I remember it. I'm using the games with an X-Arcade dual joystick console. What a combination!

Great job!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: September 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm sorry to read that some people couldn't get this game to work. It installed and ran flawlessly on my system (Windows XP, Athlon XP 2200+, ATI Radeon 9200 graphics card).

I think Atari did an awesome job packaging these timeless games for PC. The themed interface screens make you feel like you're in an arcade in the '80s, and the generous and fascinating bonus material is unavailable elsewhere. I heartily recommend this CD to anyone who'd like to relive those heady days of quarter shortages.

To the fellow who gave this CD only one star because it didn't include "great games like frogger, ms. pacman, and donkey kong": I agree, those are great games. They're not Atari games, though, so unfortunately, Atari couldn't include them. :?)

Hey why would anyone said it's a bad game?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: July 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I think this is cool because there are classic games made in the early days from Atari! And Despite the fact that when I heard from another reviewer about this Game I just wanted to let you guys know that other classic video game characters Such as Donkey Kong, Frogger, and Pac-Man ETC! I just want to let you guys know that these guys are not licensed to Atari! Donkey Kong is part of Nintendo!, Pac-Man is part of Namco!, and Frogger is part of Konami! That's why atari release all their classic games on this!

80 classics minus the best.....!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 30
Date: May 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Why is it that everything they come out w/doesnt actually have a collection of the best.. only a few. This cd, like all the rest, is missing the great games like frogger, ms. pacman, and donkey kong!

No Better Way To Drop Eighteen Bucks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: February 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

These games are presented in a manner befitting the Smithsonian. This is the electronic equivalent of Hollywood's silent films. Classics of design, where gameplay reigned supreme. It is hard to emphasize the legacy to which these titles have conditioned us. From the quirky Canyon Bomber to the supreme Tempest ( S video recommended ) the nostalgia will flow like a good Sauvignon. Anyone aged 30+ who ever used their lunch or laundry money as an expense account at the local arcade should be legally required to make this purchase.

It is a waste of money!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 20
Date: February 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I can't believe that the grahic is worse than the one I played 20 years ago. It is for collection not for playing.

Mildly Disappointing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: January 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The good thing about these games is that they do work OK on a modern XP system. Some of them are pretty much as I remember the originals, for example Pong, Centipede, Millipede. I've been looking for a Circus Atari type game for a long time - I used to love that game. Well, that one doesn't hold up to the passage of time and the rudimentary graphics make it boring.

If you do get this set; many of the games are hard to play with a mouse, and I found a game pad and a joystick pretty unresponsive. What works best for me is a rollerball.

This package isn't very expensive so if you long for the old Atari games, its satisfying enough. It's not great.

Atari Memories for Less Than the Cost of a Pizza

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: January 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This has got to be one of the best bargains I've ever found, and brings back special momories over 25 years old. I'm about 37 now in 2005, when I was in junior high at Bank Street in Manhattan, we would go around the corner to the local pizza parlor on Broadway near 112th after school to play Asteroids and Donkey Kong and have a slice of pizza. This game doesn't have Donkey Kong, as that was made by a different company than Atari, but it does have Asteroids and 79 other great games, including many of the original Atari console games and most of the original Atari arcade classics. I bought this especially for Missile Command. We would also go up to 116th St to a concert bar where they had Missile Command and a few other games. Thinking back, I'm surprised they let us in. But that was a different era, when we didn't suffer from the political correctness we do now. Anyway, Missile Command is PERFECTLY rendered here, just like it was on the original arcade console. And I discovered this disc also includes Lunar Landing, a classic arcade game that I loved playing years ago (it's EXACTLY the same as in the arcades), and other great games like Centipede. What is so incredible is that this disc is only seventeen bucks! Can you beat that?! It includes about seven categories of games including sports games and gambling games (of course it also includes the very first arcade game in history, Pong). I never really mastered Missile Command and other games because I could never afford continuing to feed quarters into these machines endlessly when I was a kid. And when I was young we couldn't afford an Atari game console at home, either. I used to play that at friends' houses. Those consoles used to cost like over a hundred and fifty dollars, but you can get all those games plus the original arcade games here for a song. This is a GREAT set of games, and even gamers who are accustomed to the modern PS2, Nintendo and XBox advanced games should buy this disc for a little history lesson, to get a little perspective on gaming, but mostly because these games are tremendously fun! This game set is an absolute steal.

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