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Sep 07, 2004 16:24

Looks like Atari is finally cashing in on the retro craze for real (not that they haven't made attempts before, TV games anyone?). I know they've released anthologies of arcade tittles before and even released an anthology for the computer, but this is truly a godsend. No more barely inaccurate Stella on the PC or my Dreamcast. It's the real deal ( Read more... )

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circumgoy September 8 2004, 06:27:21 UTC

That's pretty great news. It's a reason to want to live (and the fact that it's a reason to want to live provides me with a reason to want to reevaluate my life. I don't mind, so much. Lives are in constant need of reevaluation, or should be if they are not). To Hell with the Xbox and Play Station 2 discs. The Atari Flashback--that's the one with two turntables and a microphone.

I just hope it's real, this time. The versions of some of the games on the Toymax Namco controllers were so frustratingly unlike their arcade counterparts it made me want to hurl a bucketful of etherized rabbits at a concrete wall. Well, all right, it didn't make me that mad. It did make me mad, though, and it cost me money.

The fifty-cent charging (if you are lucky), 1981/2001 Reunion Edition of Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga makes me even madder. It's bad enough when home versions are off the mark, but when it's in the arcade . . .

Ah, damn it. I don't care. No. I do. I do, but I don't care that I do. Do I?

HG

evanzan September 8 2004, 07:40:49 UTC

Nothing beats PacMan on the 2600 for crap. Overall, I've been surprised at the quality of the Atari TV games I got for Christmas and pretty happy at the fact that it has the actual controller with just one damn button. Aww yeah.

My favorite so far is the Nester NES emulator for my Dreamcast. You can even hook up the gun controllers for the DC and play Duck Hunt. It can't play Rygar or Bionic Commando for crap, but I can get my Mario/Link fix on a regular basis now without having to fix the old NES.

Lest I forget, the port of Mame for Dreamcast also includes the real PacMan. No porting there, just straight arcade goodness.

I'm addicted to Icons on G4TV.