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.
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.