{"id":16057,"date":"2017-02-09T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T00:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16057"},"modified":"2017-01-15T07:41:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T07:41:25","slug":"the-games-of-atari-flashback-classics-vol-2-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/09\/the-games-of-atari-flashback-classics-vol-2-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Games of Atari Flashback Classics vol. 2, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ATARI2\"<\/a>I just love classic arcade game collections, so when I got Atari Flashback Classics vols. 1 and 2 on the PS4, I wanted to go over which games were on them here.\u00a0 Earlier this week we went over the games on volume 1, and now we\u2019ll do it again with volume 2.\u00a0 Just like before, I\u2019ll split this into two parts.\u00a0 Today we\u2019ll go over the arcade games in volume 2, as well as the 2600 ports of those arcade games, so I don\u2019t have to repeat myself.\u00a0 And then tomorrow we\u2019ll go over the rest of the 2600 games.<\/p>\n

If there is one complaint I have about the arcade games on these collections is that they only have Atari arcade games from the late 70\u2019s and very early 80\u2019s.\u00a0 I wish they could\u2019ve had some Atari arcade games from the mid-80\u2019s, too, like Gauntlet, Roadblasters, or Marble Madness.\u00a0 I loved those games.\u00a0 I guess if they ever made a volume 3 they could put them on, but I don\u2019t know if there are plans to even do a third set in the collection.<\/p>\n

Asteroids<\/strong><\/p>\n

Man, Asteroids was huge back in the day.\u00a0 It was in nearly every arcade I went to.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t very good at it so I didn\u2019t get into it much myself as a kid.\u00a0 I\u2019ve read rumors that Hollywood is going to make an Asteroids movie.\u00a0 That would be crazy if that really happened.<\/p>\n

Asteroids 2600<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a kid, I actually liked the 2600 version of Asteroids better because it was easier.\u00a0 And certainly more colorful.<\/p>\n

Asteroids Deluxe<\/strong><\/p>\n

They added a screen overlay, better vector graphics on the asteroids, and added some new UFOs and rocks that home in on your ship.\u00a0 And that\u2019s all I could tell.\u00a0 I wish this collection would\u2019ve had Blasteroids on it as well.\u00a0 Then we would\u2019ve had the whole set.\u00a0 And Blasteroids was pretty fun, too.<\/p>\n

Crystal Castles<\/strong><\/p>\n

You play as Bentley Bear and must gather gems in isometric mazes while avoiding enemies.\u00a0 I wanted to like this game as a kid so bad because it\u2019s basically a Pac-Man clone.\u00a0 But I couldn\u2019t get used to the controls because you had to use a trackball.\u00a0 What\u2019s cool is that many, many years later when I was at E3, I played a game called Gubble that was nearly exactly like Crystal Castles.\u00a0 When I said that to the developers, they said that the guy who made the original Crystal Castles game also made Gubble!\u00a0 So if you liked Crystal Castles, you may want to check out Gubble.\u00a0 It was originally a PC game so it may be hard to play it now, but I think it also came out on the PlayStation a little later.<\/p>\n

Crystal Castles 2600<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ha ha!\u00a0 I guess they get a gold star for effort.\u00a0\u00a0 But the graphics are so bad that once you get to mazes with elevators, it\u2019s hard to tell where you need to be to ride them.<\/p>\n

Gravitar<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well it\u2019s a mashup of games like Asteroids, Lunar Lander, and it also reminds me of a NES game that came out way later called Solar Jetman (which was made by Rare and is super hard).\u00a0 Since I wasn\u2019t good at those games, I wasn\u2019t good at Gravitar either.\u00a0 Also don\u2019t remember seeing this much in arcades as a kid either.<\/p>\n

Gravitar 2600<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aside from not having vector graphics, this is pretty close to the arcade version, I thought.\u00a0 And it\u2019s just as hard!<\/p>\n

Major Havoc<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was always fascinated by this vector game as a kid for some reason.\u00a0 It mixes up various styles of games.\u00a0 You first shoot spaceships in Galaga fashion, then you must land your rocket on the base like Lunar Lander (except it\u2019s much easier).\u00a0 Then you do some platform jumping inside a maze to reach a bomb and detonate it and escape before it blows up!\u00a0 I didn\u2019t see it much in arcades when I was a kid, but when I did, I would definitely try and play it!<\/p>\n

Missile Command<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was another game my dad liked to play in arcades.\u00a0 I remember the cabinet for it looked a little weird to me, too.<\/p>\n

Missile Command 2600<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a kid, I also liked this version better because it was easier.\u00a0 You only had one gun base to worry about.\u00a0 But other than that, it was pretty close to the arcade game.<\/p>\n

Red Baron<\/strong><\/p>\n

For some reason, I\u2019ve always been fascinated by biplanes so I\u2019ve always kind of liked this game.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a faster paced version of Battle Zone that uses planes and blimps instead of tanks.<\/p>\n

Sprint<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a really old, black and white top down racing game.\u00a0 I wish they would\u2019ve put Super Sprint on here, too.<\/p>\n

Race<\/strong><\/p>\n

I love how old video games could just get away with a simple title like \u201cBaseball\u201d or \u201cRace.\u201d\u00a0 I put this on here because it\u2019s basically exactly like Sprint, just with color.\u00a0 And it was on the 2600.<\/p>\n

Super Breakout<\/strong><\/p>\n

The tiny paddle made this game so gosh darn hard.\u00a0 As far as ball and paddle block breaking games go, I really prefer Taito\u2019s Arkanoid.\u00a0 And the DS version of Arkanoid had awesome music.<\/p>\n

Breakout 2600<\/strong><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t have a 2600 as a kid, but when I went to anyone\u2019s house who had one, they almost always had this game, too.<\/p>\n

Super Breakout 2600<\/strong><\/p>\n

Finally this is just the same game, just with the added modes like the arcade version.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s all for part 1.\u00a0 Tomorrow we\u2019ll look at the rest of the 2600 games on vol. 2 in Part 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just love classic arcade game collections, so when I got Atari Flashback Classics vols. 1 and 2 on the PS4, I wanted to go over which games were on them here.\u00a0 Earlier this week we went over the games on volume 1, and now we\u2019ll do it again with volume 2.\u00a0 Just like before, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16059,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16057\/revisions\/16059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}