man, 80 games. the PSP collection I have only has like 10. duh!
Did you get Hero on that collection? Howabout JOust?
Atari Anthology on Original Xbox
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 On 04/02/2014 at 02:54 PM by KnightDriver See More From This User » |
In putting the original Xbox into a bag to take to my friend’s place, I realized how darn heavy this console is. It’s like the weight of a cinder block and about the same size. My PS2 slim and GameCube are feather weights by comparison. The Xbox is like the Ford F650 to the PS2 and GameCube’s Toyota Scion. It’s so darn… well… American.
I popped in Atari Anthology, a large collection of Atari arcade and 2600 games. This collection has a really great menu system and is well organized. It’s very easy to get into each game and play, all of them being grouped by genre except the arcade games which are in a separate category. By playing the arcade games, you unlock special modes for the 2600 games.
The ones I kept on my backloggery page so I can revisit them later are as follows:
Adventure for the Atari 2600 is one of the first graphical fantasy adventure games you could play at home. You are just a square that moves around a simple dungeon maze. You pick up items to kill dragons and find the chalice and bring it to the yellow castle. I finished what I thought was the full game in like a couple of minutes, but it was only game 1 of 3. Game 1 is a much simpler version of the game 2 which is the full game. Game 3 just randomizes the location of items you have to find which sometimes makes the game unsolvable. I’m still scared of the dragons. They come at you so fast out of nowhere and since there’s no music, it’s that much more scary. "I don’t want to be a square in the stomach of a dragon. Get me out of here!”
I love Lunar Lander, the arcade game. The silent fall of the capsule and the momentary noisy thrust of the engines seems like an accurate simulation of what it might have sounded like in the real lunar module. It’s a real trick to land the thing without cracking up. The object is to put it down on as many tough landing sites as you can before your fuel runs out. In the arcade you would add quarters for more fuel, but here you’re richy rich and can add fuel forever. Each time you start another landing the lunar landscape changes. What glorious desolation!
I liked Missile Command for the 2600 better than the arcade version on this collection. Without a track-ball, the arcade version’s controls don’t feel accurate enough with the Xbox controller. The graphically simplified console version feels just right, giving you precise control of the targeting crosshair. With this version, I can defend the homeland's cities forever.
There are 80 games in this collection and I've only kept three to play again later. I guess I've played these games enough already that many of them have just become less than interesting to me. That's just the way it goes after 36 years.
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