Except for the “Breakout” connection with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, this is not Apple or Mac news, just news about an interesting product that we want for Christmas: Atari’s Flashback Classic Game Console.
Flash back to the games that defined a generation! The 1980s video game craze is back with an all-new game console and 20 classic Atari favorites – in one package! Just plug into your TV and play the vintage games that started a revolution! Everything you need is right here:
– Retro-style Game Console
– Two Atari 7800-inspired Joysticks
– 20 Classic Atari Games – built right in!
Bounce off the walls in Breakout. Blast through the chaos of Centipede. Hit hyperspace at just the right time in Asteroids. Relive them all, and discover a new classic. Saboteur, a vintage Atari game that
NO FREAKIN PACMAN!!!!!!
if it had pacman I would have bought it 🙁 to bad
No Pac-Man or Q-Bert? What about River Raid or Pitfall? Space Invaders? None of the best games are listed here. Combat was included with the console by default when you bought the 2600.
One word – MAME
mame?
Zaxxon?
got it
I love google…
however, this is not the all in one box that I would be looking for, sad that they half ass’d this product
I still have my orginal Atari 2600 with all of those games. Yes I know I need a life.
Folks, these are Atari titles. Pacman, IIRC is a Namco product, not an Atari Product. The games that are included in this set were marketed under the Atari brand as Atari games. Besides, if you wanted Pacman, fear not. It’s available as a separate game set.
Even Ms. Pacman.
MAME is for arcade games, not Atari console games. What you need is Stella. The OS X version works great.
http://stella.sourceforge.net/
A simple Google search will find links to all of the Atari 2600 game ROMs you could ever want for Stella too by the way.
No Star Raiders. I loved that game.
Too bad Atari went under. I remember in 81, the Atari Rep talked about Atari being a communications company, rather than a computer company. Way ahead of their time.
I never got into the Atari games that much. If you’re talking about classic games I want:
1. Donkey Kong Jr.
2. The original Apple ][ version of Castle Wolfenstein.
crappy games.. 1987 is as old school as anyone wants
Citizen X:
Exactly right. Star Raiders was the first game I bought and what initially attracted me to personal computers in the first place. If not for my association with that early platform, I’d probably be living in Windoze hell right now, oblivious to the fact there’s a superior platform available. Thanks Atari!
Star Raiders was outstanding, but the console version was a pale imitation of the real thing, which was the version for the Atari 400 and 800 computers. I remember playing that for HOURS on my Atari 800 (complete with 48K of RAM and an 88K disk drive!).
My favorite 2600 games were Air Sea Battle, Combat, Basketball, Gunslinger, and Space. My brother’s was Football, so I played a lot of that one too.
It’s MacMame in our case. And Pac-the-Man for PacMan action.
Who can forget the Atari 2600 classic Stampede! by Activision. That game ruled. Hell, it still does.
You can get this bit of classic Atari game goodness for your Mac as well.
http://www.apple.com/games/articles/2004/01/anthology/
Why bother with a 2600 ripoff when MAME offers the “original” arcade experience?
Guess you might want to play it for sentimental reasons *sniff* [ as he fondly remembers playing Pitfall on his friend’s 2600 ]
The above release tho suggests one last screwing of consumers, since many of the “good” games are absent (admittedly, probably owned by different software houses, but still.)