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Atariboy

Final game list is now available. Looks to be 103 games.

Atari 2600
-3-D Tic-Tac-Toe
-Adventure
-Air Sea Battle
-Asteroids
-Basic Math
-Breakout
-Canyon Bomber
-Centipede
-Combat
-Combat Two
-Crystal Castles
-Dark Chambers
-Demons to Diamonds
-Dodge 'Em
-Fatal Run
-Gravitar
-Haunted House
-Millipede
-Miner 2049'er
-Missile Command
-Outlaw
-Quadrun
-Race 500 (Renamed, combining the Atari [Indy 500] and Sears [Race] names for the game)
-Realsports Baseball
-Realsports Basketball
-Realsports Boxing
-Realsports Football
-Realsports Soccer
-Realsports Tennis
-Realsports Volleyball
-Saboteur
-Secret Quest
-Solaris
-Super Breakout
-Surround
-Swordquest: Earthworld
-Swordquest: Fireworld
-Swordquest: Waterworld
-Warlords
-Yars' Revenge

Atari 5200
-Bounty Bob Strikes Back
-Millipede
-Missile Command
-Star Raiders ("+ Enhanced Version")
-Super Breakout

Atari 8-Bit Computers
-Bounty Bob Strikes Back
-Caverns of Mars
-Food Fight
-Miner 2049'er

Atari 7800
-Asteroids
-Basketbrawl
-Centipede
-Dark Chambers
-Fatal Run
-Ninja Golf
-Scrapyard Dog

Atari Jaguar
-Atari Karts
-Club Drive
-Cybermorph
-Evolution Dino Dudes
-Fight for Life
-Missile Command 3D
-Ruiner Pinball
-Tempest 2000
-Trevor McFur

Atari Lynx
-Basketbrawl
-Malibu Bikini Volleyball
-Scrapyard Dog
-Super Asteroids + Missile Command
-Turbo Sub
-Warbirds

Dedicated
-Touch Me (A videogame recreation of Atari's 'Touch Me', their take on the popular 'Simon' game)

Arcade (Additions never included in earlier console, handheld, and PC collections are denoted with an asterisk)
-Akka Arrh *
-Asteroids
-Asteroids Deluxe
-Black Widow
-Breakout *
-Centipede
-Cloak & Dagger *
-Crystal Castles
-Fire Truck
-Food Fight (Previously saw a release via Game Room for the Xbox 360)
-Gravitar
-I, Robot *
-Liberator
-Lunar Lander
-Major Havoc
-Maze Invaders
-Millipede
-Missile Command
-Pong
-Quantum *
-Space Duel
-Sprint 8 *
-Super Breakout
-Tempest
-Warlords

Reimagined
-Haunted Houses
-Neo Breakout
-Quadratank
-Swordquest: Airworld
-VCTR-SCTR
-Yars’ Revenge Reimagined

Overlap with the Atari Flashback Classics/Atari Vault line isn't quite as bad as I expected. 45 of these 103 games are exclusive to this collection. And 92 more games from the older Flashback Classics/Vault line remain exclusive to those.

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Atariboy

Magician

The inclusion of Tempest 2000 is enough for me.

One of the few reasons to own a Jaguar.

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Ninfan

@Atariboy when will all of the games in the list be released. Them 5200 and 7800 hundred games are really good

Ninfan

Atariboy

It's the arcade category that I'm looking forward to. Seven games not on Atari Flashback Classics, including several personal favorites (Although I wish more was here like the arcade version of Night Driver and Tank 8).

And while Code Mystics did good work with their emulators, I'm curious how Digital Eclipse will handle the vector games. I felt like imitating the look of a vector monitor wasn't quite as close as it could've been previously. And I'm really curious if they'll support 4k and HDR on applicable platforms to get even closer to the sharpness and vividness of a vector monitor.

And while it was really unimportant , it annoyed me that the bell sound effect on Fire Truck was a bit broken. It actually sounds like a bell on a real cabinet, but on Atari Flashback Classics it didn't sound anything like one. So I wonder if Digital Eclipse got that part right.

Lastly, I hope two things happen in the controls area. First, I hope they rip off the setup that Code Mystics cleverly came up with for the overhead racers (Made them playable and fun with modern console controllers). Secondly, now that all platforms have USB mouse and keyboard support, I hope Digital Eclipse will support it for track-ball and rotary spinner games.

Ninfan wrote:

@Atariboy when will all of the games in the list be released. Them 5200 and 7800 hundred games are really good

The full list is in the original post. All 103 games are listed.

If you're asking instead about the release date, I believe the collection is slated for release on November 8th.

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Atariboy

MarioBrickLayer

What are the best games on this list?
I want to play Adventure and Missile Command, I haven't played either!

MarioBrickLayer

Atariboy

That's a tough one. But these are my personal choices. Some big names don't make the cut, especially in the arcade side where I tend to enjoy and have a lot more nostalgia for the 2600 versions of games like Centipede and Missile Command.

Atari 2600
-Adventure
-Centipede
-Combat
-Gravitar
-Haunted House
-Millipede
-Missile Command
-Race 500
-Super Breakout
-Warlords
-Yars' Revenge

Atari 8-Bit Computers
-Caverns of Mars
-Food Fight

Atari 7800
-Centipede

Atari Jaguar
-Tempest 2000

Atari Lynx
-Warbirds

Arcade
-Asteroids Deluxe
-Black Widow
-Fire Truck
-Food Fight
-Lunar Lander
-Major Havoc
-Space Duel
-Sprint 8
-Tempest

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Atariboy

XandertheWise

Whats the name of that one old Atari 2600 game where you were an astronaut basically moving left and right to shoot at space dragons that came out of caves? I think it was called Space Cavern or something

XandertheWise

XandertheWise

Also, Star Raiders? that was an odd confusing game where if its what Im thinking, its that weird sci fi game where there's a big green grid and aliens are moving slowly to you or something then you go towards them or whatever to start up some first person shooting?

XandertheWise

Atariboy

That indeed was Space Cavern. Developed and released by Apollo, if I'm not mistaken.

Star Raiders for the 2600 (as well as Atari's 8-bit computer line and the 5200) is a special game for many people, but I never got into it. My copy as a kid was used and while I had the cart, the keypad, and overlay (2600 version), I lacked the manual to explain how to play it.

I never quite learned it back then and I've never put the time in as an adult (with 2600 manuals available at my fingertips thanks to the internet) to rectify the situation. Sadly though I don't think it's going to fare well with modern controllers even for those that loved playing it back in the day.

Has me wondering what exactly this "enhanced version" is that Digital Eclipse has apparently created for the 5200 version. Maybe they've made some adjustments to make it a better fit for contemporary console gamepads?

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Atariboy

Matt_Barber

Star Raiders was originally developed for the more powerful 8-bit computers, so the 2600 version had to be very cut down because it wasn't really designed for games that complex.

Since the 5200 was based on the same hardware as the 8-bits, that's got the full game with a few bug fixes and extra tweaks. It's very much the definitive version.

Matt_Barber

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