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Atari was big in the 70’s and the beginning of the 80’s when the videogames started to show up in the arcades and homes. This reflect the many titles you find in Atari Vault compilation.
Even if you haven’t played Pong, Asteroids, Centipede or Missile Command in the arcades, these are known games you probably have come a cross on a console or two throu the decades.
Atari Vault hit Steam in March and contain 100 Atari games. 18 of them are arcade titles, the rest is games for the Atari 2600.
The games are wrapped in nice menus where you find the arcade titles and Atari 2600 in two seperate views. The arcade games are shown with their 3D arcade cabinets. The games are not played in fullscreen, but zoomet in so you the cabinet graphics surround the playscreen.
The Atari 2600 titles are shown with their gameboxes and you can read the game manual for each game. Sadly, they are scanned in low resolution and you can also see compression artifacts.
I used the keyboard for most of the games I testet, and mostly it works OK. But had some problemes in some of the games. Some of the games also have mouse support, but that didn’t quite work well either. It’s also possible to connect a controller, but I didn’t test that.
With the exeption of Pong, all the arcade games support leaderboards on the internet. It’s also possible to play all the arcade games as multiplayer over internet. Some of the Atari 2600 games support that too. To bad that you have to check each and every game if there are someone that wants to play online. It would have been much easier if you could just check a lobby and join a free game there.
With blocky graphics and pling-plong sound, the Atari Vault have lot of good games from the 70’s and 80’s. Even though many of the games can be found on other compilations for consoles or in the form of a Atari Flashback plug’n-play console, some people do like to play on PC only.
Atari Vault is the game compilation for those who want to relive their childhood or just want to check out a great piece of gaming history. There are some thing that could have been done better in this compilation. But in all, you will enjoy this compilation and probably discover some games you never heard of. I know I did.
Complete gamelist:
| 3D Tic Tac Toe – 2600 Adventure – 2600 Air Sea Battle – 2600 Asteroids – 2600 Asteroids – Arcade Asteroids Deluxe – Arcade Backgammon – 2600 Basic Math – 2600 Basketball – 2600 Black Widow – Arcade Blackjack – 2600 Bowling – 2600 Brain Games – 2600 Breakout – 2600 Canyon Bomber – 2600 Casino – 2600 Centipede – 2600 Centipede – Arcade Championship Soccer – 2600 Checkers – 2600 Chess – 2600 Circus Atari – 2600 Code Breaker – 2600 Combat – 2600 Combat 2 – 2600 Concentration – 2600 Crystal Castles – 2600 Crystal Castles – Arcade Demons to Diamonds – 2600 Desert Falcon – 2600 Dodge-Em 2600 Double Dunk – 2600 Fatal Run – 2600 Flag capture – 2600 Football – 2600 Golf – 2600 Gravitar – 2600 Gravitar – Arcade Hangman – 2600 Haunted House – 2600 Homerun – 2600 Human Cannonball – 2600 Liberator – Arcade Lunar Lander – Arcade Major Havoc – Arcade Maze Craze – 2600 Millipede – 2600 Millipede – Arcade Miniature Golf – 2600 Missile Command – 2600 Missile Command – Arcade Night Driver – 2600 |
Off the Wall – 2600 Outlaw – 2600 Pong – Arcade Quadrun – 2600 Race – 2600 Radar Lock – 2600 RealSports Baseball – 2600 RealSports Basketball – 2600 RealSports Boxing – 2600 RealSports Football – 2600 RealSports Soccer – 2600 RealSports Tennis – 2600 RealSports Volleyball – 2600 Red Baron – Arcade Return to Haunted House – 2600 Save Mary – 2600 Secret Quest – 2600 Sentinel – 2600 Sky Diver – 2600 Slot Machine – 2600 Slot Racers – 2600 Sword Quest Fireworld – 2600 Space Duel – Arcade Space War – 2600 Sprint – Arcade Sprint Master – 2600 Star Raiders – 2600 Starship – 2600 Steeplechase – 2600 Stellar Track – 2600 Street Racer – 2600 Stunt Cycle – 2600 Sub Commander – 2600 Super Baseball – 2600 Super Breakout – Arcade Super Breakout -2600 Super Football – 2600 Surround – 2600 Sword Quest Earthworld – 2600 Sword Quest Waterworld – 2600 Tempest – 2600 Tempest – Arcade Video Cube – 2600 Video Olympics – 2600 Video Pinball – 2600 Warlords – 2600 Warlords – Arcade Yars Revenge – 2600 |