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Atari Greatest Hits: Volume 1
Developer(s)Code Mystics
Publisher(s)Atari
Platform(s)Nintendo DS, iOS
Release
  • NA: November 2, 2010
  • EU: February 24, 2011
Genre(s)Various
Mode(s)Single-player, two player
Atari Greatest Hits: Volume 2
Developer(s)Code Mystics
Publisher(s)Atari
Platform(s)Nintendo DS
Release
  • NA: March 8, 2011
Genre(s)Various
Mode(s)Single-player, two player

The Atari Greatest Hits series is composed of two compilations of retro Atari arcade games & Atari 2600 games ported to the Nintendo DS. While listed on the Atari web site as free for iOS & Android, Atari Greatest Hits has been removed from both app stores.

Reception

Volume 1

Writing for IGN, Craig Harris rated Atari Greatest Hits Volume 1 6 out of 10, and said that the 30 dollar price was too high. Harris noticed that the Nintendo DS's small screen can not properly display games with vector graphics, like Gravitar, Lunar Lander, and Asteroids, but he praised the title's "excellent multiplayer support" and "spot-on emulations".[1] Alex Morgen at GamingBits.com gave it 3.5 of 5 stars in a generally positive review. Harris and Morgen both said that many of the included titles would not hold gamers' attention for very long.[2] Nintendo Power rated it 5 out of 10, while Nintendo Gamer gave it 22 out of 100.[3]

Extras

Both volumes contain an art gallery of pictures from their playable arcade games, Atari 2600 manuals from their playable arcade games and credits that say the people who helped make them. Both volumes contain 2 other extras. While Volume 1 has a trivia game that gives players 20 randomly selected questions about Atari and Army Battlezone, a version of Battlezone commissioned by the US Army for Atari to train the gunners of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, Volume 2 has 8 interviews from Nolan Bushnell, including video and audio (although the interviews don't have similar buttons to many video hosters) & an Atari 400 Basic engine.[4]

Included games in Volume 1

Arcade titles

Atari 2600 titles

Included games in Volume 2

Arcade titles

Atari 2600 titles

Notes

  1. ^ Better known as Pele's Soccer, the game is using its original title in this compilation for copyright reasons.

References

  1. ^ Harris, Craig (2010-11-08). "Atari Greatest Hits Volume 1 Review - IGN". IGN. Retrieved 2013-04-11.
  2. ^ Morgen, Alex (2010-11-10). "Atari Greatest Hits: Volume 1 review". GamingBits.com. Archived from the original on 2014-01-08. Retrieved 2013-04-11.
  3. ^ "Atari Greatest Hits Volume 1 for DS - GameRankings". GameRankings. Retrieved 2013-04-11.
  4. ^ Humphries, Matthew (2010-11-10). ">Review: Atari Greatest Hits Volume 1 for Nintendo DS". Geek.com. Archived from the original on 2014-04-28. Retrieved 2013-04-11.
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