Atari Recharged Collections Receiving Limited Run Physical Switch Release

Ugh. This should have been a single release on a single freaking cartridge. US$70 (plus shipping!) for some barely-improved relics from Atari's catalogue? All four games combined take up no more than 2GB of space FFS.

I would have been tempted for Breakout, but this is going to end up costing me at least AU$60 for a game I can essentially make myself using some run-of-the-mill game creation suite (over AU$110 if I were to buy the dual pack!).

LRG are being really stingy of late and they shouldn't be rewarded for this. I'd be better off picking up Atari 50 which offers a lot more bang for one's buck and at a lower price.

I was really hoping these would get a physical collection, but 2 games each?? How can you call that a “collection?”
As much as I love classic games and buying physical, I can’t justify the cost for these mini shelf-hogs.

I’ll wait for a better package. Maybe it’ll happen some day.

Why aren't all four games not in one collection? These are less than 1gb, they will fit onto a single Switch cartridge just fine. Also why are Missile Command: Recharged, Tempest 4000, Gravitar: Recharged, PONG Quest, Atari Mania, Kombinera, and Yars: Recharged not included?

This cover art is better than most retro collections 👍

More like Atari Overcharged 😜

There is no way these couldn't be on the one cartridge.
Is this overcharging?
Yes
Do I want them.
Unfortunately yes.

Buyer's remorse guaranteed.

@Slowdive : Other similarly crappy deals by LRG include Shantae (GBC) on its own Switch cartridge (a 1MB GBC ROM!), while selling Risky's Revenge on its own cartridge rather than bundling them together (hell, why isn't there a complete Shantae set with all five games on a single cart?!).

And instead of doing the decent thing and issuing a complete "A Boy and His Blob" collection with the NES, GB, and Wii games on a single cart, they're splitting the NES/GB games into a separate "retro collection". That's two games, combined, that could fit on a floppy disk nearly 10 times over!

Come at me when you’ve ported Centipede Chaos.

I’m a physical collector but I hate this.

This is too much fluff, absolutely no reason to break this down into two cardridges. That goes for both LRG and Atari, who must also have had a say in it.

This is beyond shameless and ridiculously greedy. screw 'em

How does a collection equal just 2 games per cartridge?
Will there be more? I don't know if my wallet can handle this one.

Once again Limited Run dragging all the money they can out of us Physical collectors, definitely NOT getting this, its a waste of plastic, all of them could easily be on one cartridge.

And pretty appalling value compared to the Atari 50th collection and well anything else to be honest. This should have been one cartridge at most

Limited run garbage

@Sisilly_G it looks extra stingy next to the Atari 50 that came out less than a week ago!

It's limited run games, they have their target audience and probably know that they will sell these out. I understand why they have done 2 per cart, it's stingy but I get it.

Talk about being greedy! Really bad value for money. Reminds me of the recent Taito collection that had about 10 games on it.

I really hope people wise up to this crap and the Atari ones are bad sellers for LRG.

4 games on 2 cartridges for what it cost me to buy all 7 titles digitally. Pass.

Cash grab for 4 games that could fit on a single cart. Atari 50

Not only should ALL of these games be on ONE cartridge, and for no more than $40 total, and yes they would all fit with room to spare, but you also get Gravatar Recharged for free if you preordered Atari 50. I was just sent an email with a code for that and downloaded the full game, as a separate title on my switch. Limited Run Games should change their name to PGE Inc. (Price Gouging Experts, Inc).

This is disgusting behaviour on LR's part, absolute money grabbing.

So $70 for 4 Atari games? Is that what I’m reading?

Ahh yes we need more plastic to hold games that collectively must be all of what, 50 mb?

Could of added Missile command as well.

@Kiyata I pre-ordered Artari 50 steel book edition from Walmart. I never got a code for Gravitar Recharged. Did They not give them out?

@Axelay71 All 7 titles should have been on one cart, Asteroids, Centipede, Black Widow, Breakout, Gravitar, Yars, and Missile Command.

@SonicKing
Exactly! That’s the type of collection I expected - 7 early arcade-style games on one cartridge is not too much to ask.
That’s why I’ll be skipping these disappointments.

Usually I support LRG in the forums because they provide physicals we otherwise may not get, but these Atari releases are ridiculous and hopefully their sales tank.

Meh...***** limited run games. Should've been all on one cart and a retail release. At leas the Atari 50 collection is worth the asking price and you can, you know, actually go to the store and pick it up versus waiting a year to actually play it.

@Teksetter Yes especially for this price. $70 is WAY too much for these games. Don't get me wrong, they're all good, but not almost $20 a piece good.

@SonicKing totally agree 👍

@stuntz0rZ I’m not sure about other retailers. I bought the standard edition for switch, as well as for ps4, from Target, and I received the download code for Gravatar Recharged for each version, via email, about a week after receiving the games.

Wow!! What a complete rip off!! Should’ve been all 4 games in one package for $30-35 PLUS Gravitar, Yars and Missile Command as well!! This is downright insulting! Hard pass!

And if you already bought them then your credit card will be...recharged.