At long last, Atari is producing a new video game system!
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More information can be found on this page on Atari's Web site. You can also read the press release.
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At long last, Atari is producing a new video game system!
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images..._screen001.jpg
More information can be found on this page on Atari's Web site. You can also read the press release.
That's misleading. It looks cool and all but only 20 games and no support for carts? It's basically the same thing as the Namco TV Classics.
Its not even really Atari. Its just Infogrames trying to make some money because they certainly cant off the shitty videogames theyre publishing now.
The 7800 sucked! That and the old NES were all we had to play with until Mom got the secretary position in the Accounting Dept. Now it's PS2 and Madden all night long!
I was hoping it would have Ninja Golf. Still, that's pretty cool.
I'll buy it, if it's less than $30.
Where the hell is Combat?
I had really wanted to see some more 7800 games in it. I know some of the titles (Dig Dug, Donkey Kong, Ikari Warriors for example) wouldn't make it due to licensing issues, but Atari has a decent amount of stuff there to draw from- like Jinks, Meltdown, Ninja Golf, and Scrapyard Dog.
Planet Smashers is terrible.
Actually, it's kind of worse. 15 of the games are Atari 2600 titles. Buying Activision anthology would be a better deal.Quote:
Originally Posted by soundwave
Planet Smashers is indeed abysmal. Alien Brigade would have been another good choice when choosing from 7800 licenses owned by Atari.Quote:
Originally Posted by gameoverDude
I work for "Atari" =D
Playing a Classic like Warlords with a joystick makes baby jesus cry.
And why the heck dont they give us the superior arcade versions of the ported games instead? They have not aged as poorly as 2600 games have...
When will these drunkards ever learn that reviving the Atari name has very little do to with regurgitating old shit for the Nth time and much more to do with releasing/producing NEW titles that are worth a damn?
Never, it seems.
I was really happy there for a second..
It has Food Fight. That's reason enough to own it unless you have the real thing.
http://coinop.org/KB/GfxMame/Cabinets/foodf.png
Agreed. Respect for the Food Fight.
GAMESPOT says there will be a whopping 85 games total on this Flashback system, which contradicts what the Atari page proclaims.
It's not like they don't release new stuff. They publish some quality games. It's too bad no one bought Kya: Dark Lineage.Quote:
Originally Posted by haohmaru
Oh, and Agent X, I'm curious as to which game you named yourself after. Atari's Agent X or the Spectrum/C64 series?
It says 20 titles for the flashback and the rest are on the Atari Anthology for the PS2 and Xbox consoles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Super-Eggroll
Ah, so it does. Sometimes it pays to read the whole text instead of skimming through looking for keywords. Good eye there, gamevet.Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
Disrespect for the Food Fight:
http://www.arcade-classics.com/gamer...dfight/ff4.jpg
I don't think Planet Smashers is too bad. The graphics aren't anything to write home about (although it does have some big bosses), and the sounds are rather weak even by 7800 standards. Still, the gameplay is solid. It's actually pretty challenging on the hard skill level.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
I do agree with Scrapyard Dog or Ninja Golf being better choices, as they're generally regarded as being very good games, and represent genres that are otherwise deficient from the game selection on this console. This machine's already got several good shoot-em-ups; we really didn't need another one here. That, and I don't own the 7800 cartridges of Scrapyard Dog or Ninja Golf already. :) (I do have Scrapyard Dog for Lynx, though.)
With regard to the other games, Alien Brigade and Meltdown would've required a light gun, and Jinks isn't an Atari property. If Atari was going to pony up the cash for licensing another game from the 7800's back catalog (that they don't inherently own the rights to), I would've recommended BallBlazer from LucasArts, or maybe Joust from Williams (now Midway). Both of those games would've made good use of this unit's two joysticks for head-to-head fun.
I'm glad they decided to include Saboteur for the 2600 on there. I discussed Saboteur (and The A-Team) in this thread from the Gaming Age message board. It's worth reading if you've got any interest in either classic Atari 2600 games or Mr. T. :D
[thumb]http://www.atariage.com/store/images/2600_Saboteur_box.jpg[/thumb]
It would be Atari's "Agent X", a.k.a. Cloak & Dagger. I liked the Cloak & Dagger movie, which has a truckload of Atari references, but I've never played the video game--I just thought the name sounded cool. :) Also, at the time I started using that name, I was closely following VM Labs' NUON technology, which was known as "Project X" at the time. When a few message boards started popping up that were covering Project X, I wanted to choose a name that sounded like it went along with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
With all these companies trying to capitalise on the retro-gaming craze, this lack of creativity in the industry worries me. They're just trying to make money of games that are 10, 20 years old.
Then again, this isn't new. It's just become a fad with the casual gamer instead of the hardcore. And the plug-and-play ease of these gizmo's makes em easy to hook up for even the dumbest redneck looking for a Pac-man fix.
Oh well. Maybe it's good, maybe it's not.
I don't know what you're talking about.Quote:
Originally Posted by DougDaBroadcasta
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Alien Brigade is still joystick compatible though and plays well enough with it. I don't remember if Meltdown is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Agent X
I saw the movie as a kid but I hardly remember it now.Quote:
It would be Atari's "Agent X", a.k.a. Cloak & Dagger. I liked the Cloak & Dagger movie, which has a truckload of Atari references
Very true man, with a few notable exceptions the games market these days is flooded with clones. Take a look on any game shelf and it's full of fps, stratagy or racing games all lacking individualality.. The only recent game thats grabbed me suprisingly is an fps game... Doom3 but no suprises there, the orginaters and masters ID software made it... In my view It's cool to make the same kind of game, but it has to add something to its specific genre, not just pack it full of flash graphics and fancy sound.Quote:
Originally Posted by DougDaBroadcasta
Either I'm getting older and more choosey, or games are getting more repetetive resulting in games companies rehashing the past...
The 7800 had good games like Ms Pac Man, Xevious, Dug Dug, of course those are Namco titles. Of the Atari stuff Ballblazer (with 5200 Pokey sound chip), Klax and Midnight Mutants would have been excellent choices. Not sure who has the rights to Xenophobe?
Anyway, cool to see something that looks like a 7800/proline controllers back in action.
Klax
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Originally Posted by diffusionx
Truth. However...
This, and isn't Atari linked to Baldur's Gate III? I'm not sure what the game would be like without the original dev.'s involved, but I think this is something to watch.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
They're supposed to be involved with Neverwinter Nights 2 as well, but I wasn't very keen on the first at all.
Hollywood has been doing this for years now, so it's nothing new... only a matter of time before it happened with video games.Quote:
Originally Posted by DougDaBroadcasta
I never played an 7800, only the 2600, so this means little to me. With all the collections on consoles, this seems a little ridiculous. The 7800 didn't have the following that the 2600 did. And someone asked about Xenophobe, that's one of the games that Midway has now, and they are releasing it in their next Arcade Treasures.
I would rather have a punching bag of Sam Tramiel's face.
As would I.Quote:
Originally Posted by JefmcC
I find it amazing how one man can kill not ONLY Atari, but Commodore as well.
Tramiel lost his majority share of the Commodore stock. He was removed from the company board. He then went on to buy into Atari. Commodore went down with the Amiga/ CD-32, Tramiel had nothing to do with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wildkat
I had actually played the arcade game, before seeing the movie. The whole concept of the movie, was that the kid (Who played Elliot in E.T.) found an Atari 5200 cartridge with the game Cloak and Dagger. There was a hidden code in the game that revealed something and people were out to get it. Really a lame movie, but I enjoyed the Atari references.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
Yeah, you're right, I just checked the box and it is joystick compatible. I always played it with the light gun, though. Crossbow could also be used with either the gun or the joystick; I bought that game a few months before getting a light gun for myself, so I actually put some time into that game with the joystick. The light gun greatly improves the gameplay experience.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
You're right. That is why 15 of the 20 games in this system are 2600 games. The few 7800 games just serve to add some extra flavor.Quote:
Originally Posted by TobalRox
Besides, some of the 7800 games like Asteroids and Centipede were also present on the 2600 and in arcades--people will still recognize those games, and I doubt they're going to be turned away just because they happen to be the 7800 versions and not the 2600 versions. On the contrary, it might appeal more to people like yourself who never played the 7800--now you can finally see what the 7800 versions were like.
Personally, I'm glad to see the "new" Atari has finally decided to dip into the library of one of their other consoles besides the 2600. All of their previous compilations have been either arcade games or 2600 games--it's nice to see them spice things up a little here and there.
I haven't seen it in over a decade, so I don't know how it'd stack up now. Longtime Atari fans seems to love it for many of the same reasons that longtime Nintendo fans wistfully reminisce on the movie The Wizard.Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
The 7800 was a good console, I think people would be impressed if they played 7800 Asteroids after seeing 2600 Asteroids. I was kind of hoping the new Atari would relaunch the 2600jr. with built in games plus a slot to take existing carts, but you have to be content with this. It's the first new hardware from Atari to be sold in shops since the Jag. This new retro console is like a fancy Atari "Home Pong" because it's a "dedicated" non programmable console.
Don't discs like this, which have 85 games on it for under $20, just make the idea of this "new Atari console" even more stupid?
http://www.ebgames.com/ebx_assets/pr...ges/245086.jpg
One thing the Tramiels were responsible for is that 7800 games generally sound just like the 2600 counterparts. For frick's sake, the 7800 should have had a POKEY chip or perhaps two in it. Did you see any 4-Mega cartridges for the 7800? Hell no. Thank them for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wildkat
It's a shame there wasn't a Millipede for 7800. I found the Atari XL/XE version way too easy.
The 7800 had to be backwards compatible with the 2600, to achieve that in a short space of time GCC used the 2600's TIA chip, and added the 5200's Pokey sound chip to Ballblazer.
Klax and Midnight Mutants plus all those good arcade ports like Xevious, Joust and Dig Dug showed the 7800 had the right stuff. The Rescue On Fractalus proto shows what a cheap fart Tramiel was. :(
Klax
http://www.atariprotos.com/7800/software/klax/klax.htm
Midnight Mutants
http://www.atariprotos.com/7800/soft...t/midnight.htm
Rescue On Fractalus
http://www.atariprotos.com/7800/software/rof/rof.htm
I love these new 'plug into your tv' toys. Nice and retro.
i think my loal newspaper had it listed for like 40 or 50 in the "feature" they ran.Quote:
Originally Posted by Videodrone
I looked it up on EBGames.com and it was $49.99