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Not as "Classic" as it could be

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 13
Date: December 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

While Pong, Centipede, and Asteroids WERE groundbreaking, they aren't "Classic" on this console. If you're one of the rare types who finds the old Atari games more mesmerizing than any of the new stuff on the market, then you could potentially enjoy this title.

Otherwise, it's hard to have any appreciation for this if you switch game cartridges from Meteos or Mario Kart to this. Retro Atari just doesn't deliver.

It should also be noted that the controls aren't consistent. For some games you have to use the stylus to "Touch the Screen" but as soon as the game begings, you're required to use the directional pad.

So dissapointing!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 16
Date: January 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is the worst of all the "retro " comps out there by far. The games are not faithful translations to say the least. Tempest is totally unplayable without the use of the touch pad. And the touch pad is very difficult to use. Warlords is OK, but once you beat the first screen it says GAME OVER, and stops! What?! thats it, no progressive levels?
I actually like all the "remix" modes of the games, I think they are all done pretty good, are creative and do give the old timers a fresh feel. However, they really went too far to force these games to take advantage of the DS strengths to a point where they ruined almost all of the games.
I really wish that I would have read these reviews before I had bought this game, but I JUST ASSUMED that these games would be straight ports of these classics with the OPTION of something new thrown in if you were in thew mood. This is clearly not the case.

Really poor classic versions

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you want to play the classic version, get the GBA Atari collection instead. NDS Retro Atari Classics doesn't even try to be authentic. The classic modes for the included games appear to be an afterthough.

The new versions are mostly unplayable.

Lame

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I gotta agree with the other reviewer, this game is difficult to play. While the stylus works well with certain games, i.e. Zookeeper, it doesn't work out well on this game. Further, the games are not really arcade-like (not as finely detailed at all), and the remix versions are even worse. But there are 10 games, making it less than $3 each, and I guess that gives you some bang for your buck. Just don't expect too much.

Old old games.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 27
Date: December 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Man,I got this game for Christmas and the games are so boring.

Old old games.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 24
Date: December 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Man,I got this game for Christmas and the games are so boring.And the games are so old.

Fair

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I wouldn't say this is the worst game ever. But out of my personal experience I found only 1 game was impossible to control. Also the worst part is that you and a friend need retro atari classics game card to play something like pong.
But on the good side many of the games such as asteroids and missle command were much easier to controll than using the control pad to play.

I would recommend this game to those who love boosting their high scores and to those who miss the days of the simple games of the 80's. It will have good replay value for those.

If your not that type of gamer stay away.

Thanks for reading :)

Not Bad, Mixed Bag

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm a retro games fan and have most of the originals of these games somewhere in the basement, and all the emulators on my N-Gage. For the classics you could just stick with the GBA version or an emulator on any other system, but frankly the DS is some of the best portable hardware and makes the classics more enjoyable. A few of the "remix" versions I actually like, including Centipede and Warlords. If you buy it for Tempest be advised that this is by far the weakest game on the title.

get's old after a while

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

ok this compilation is ok. i'll admit that i'm a sucker for classics and that's why i got this. the first few days with this were really fun just expieriencing the classics. the next couple weeks i didn't play this that much... and now well a couple months after i bought it i barely play it. simply because i don't think that these games are as addicting now as they were then. games like castle and breakout are fun but are you really gonna sit down and play this for ages? in addition the games in super mario ds are more engaging and varied so i play those more often. this is fun but i reccomend buying it onsale because it's simply not worth $30. i'd pay $15 for it but not $30...

The Past Will Have to Wait Some More

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: November 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I just bought this and though some of the games are very true to form like Asteroids, Pong, Break-Out, and Lunar Landing you go away with the feeling of how basic our games were in the 1980's, tho that never stopped me from stuffing quarters into them. Of course many of our old games were a challenge back then but we've really come a long way. My favorite was always Missile Command which was the reason I picked this up. Unfortunately, I was disappointed with this incarnation of the arcade legend. With the original game, and to a lesser degree even the original Game Boy Missile Command, you could control which base to fire your missiles. Not so here and you can't control which base launches your missiles. It's a free-for-all which prevents the standard strategy of using a spread of missiles using the base the farthest from your cursor (which starts at the opposite end of the side you choose, this way you can let loose an even spread of missiles workng your way back to the firing base). The graphics are great but why the heck couldn't the manufacturer have kept with the basic defensive concept of the game?

If you stunk at games like Tempest and Lunar Landing then guess what...not much will have changed. I still can't land that damn lander in Lunar Landing and still not sure what is going on with Tempest! Asteroids is very good but I was never a big fan of it during its heyday, preferring Pac-Man, Gorf, Missile Command, and Space Invaders Deluxe.

So, this was a nice blast from the past, but I'll wait for the Namco Museum release and keep my fingers crossed that it has a higher replay value.

I bought the DS to keep up with legacy games like Zelda, Metroid, and FPS' like MOH and COD--all of which I'm still waiting to be released. I like the concept of the DS, but for the most part the time I find for portable gaming (I travel a lot on business) is spent on my PSP.

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