• ID = PS1086
• STYLE = Miscellaneous, Compilation
• DEV. = Digital Eclipse
• PUB. = Atari
• R-DATE = Nov-22-2004
• ESRB = E / For Everyone
• PLAYERS = 1-4 Players
• LIST PRICE = $49.99
  

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It's the largest collection of classic Atari games ever! Take a step back in time to the early days of video arcades with an unmatched compilation of unforgettable and authentic Atari titles. All of the games are faithfully reproduced with the great sights, sounds and fast action that made them so popular. Whether you played these games in their original arcade cabinets or on an Atari 2600 console, you're sure to find a favorite.

Features:

• 18 Classic Arcade Games The most memorable games ever to hit the arcades including Asteroids, Battlezone, Centipede, Liberator, Crystal Castles, Missile Command, Tempest and many more that haven't been seen in years.
• 62 Atari 2600 favorites the most addictive games ever designed including gravitar, millipede, super breakout, video pinball and warlords.
• Five bonus games available for the first time since the 1980s off the wall, blackjack, steeplechase, desert falcon and sprintmaster.
• Challenge modes new challenges including timed hot-seat competitions, the psychedelic trippy mode, double speed games, time warp games and time challenges that test players' abilities to the extreme.

Amazon.com customer reviews:

Best compilation ever

After releasing many compilation versions, Atari finally got it right. And its scary how much this game has, Atari 2600 games AND arcade games.

Finally, you can play Major Havoc, arcade version, on the PS2. I read that this was one of the most requested games not yet out, so thanks to Atari for listening.

And for the 2600 games, Yar's Revenge, Combat and Surround? PERFECT. Combat is any 2600's favorite, Yar's Revenge is the reason many people will buy this, no matter what else it had. but Surround? That is the underground classic, playing it today and you can tell it will just never age. Maybe the most fun two-player game on the entire disc.

There are only two other compilations you will ever need: Namco Museum, and Midway Arcade Treasures. But Atari Anthology is the best of them.

Guaranteed to make you feel both old & like a kid again

With 67 Atari home games and 18 versions of games the way they appeared in console systems, this is a great compilation that just keeps opening and unfolding; and with each turn you find something you might not have thought about in 20 years -- if, that is, you grew up in the heyday of video arcades and Atari 2600's.

I'd completely forgotten about "Space Duel" and "Red Baron," which is kind of like "Battlezone" only with World War I bi-planes. And "Space Duel," which is kind of like "Asteroids," only with a force-field instead of hyperspace, is incredibly fun. Why neither of those games took off in popularity is beyond me.

I'd also forgotten how hard "Pong" actually is. Maybe it's because I'm not using a paddle-wheel but in a day and age when I can mow down 20 gangbangers and fly a lear jet in "San Andreas," I found it nearly impossible to just connect my paddle with a tiny, slow-moving dot.

The day I got this game, I played a lot of the 2600 games with someone who was too young to have played them in the early days of home-gaming. She couldn't imagine that games like "Night Driver" and "Street Racer" were ever considered fun and entertaining (and, to be honest, playing them again for the first time in decades I had some difficulty conceiving that myself). But for every game that hasn't aged well, there are others that remain as fresh as they were the day you first slid a token into them.

Best version of arcade Battle Zone