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More Atari classics. Remixed? Try "Rehashed!" Still fun though.
This is yet another version of the Activision collection of games originally designed for the Atari 2600 Video Computer System back in the early 1980s. Like those versions, this serves as a nice museum piece to showcase these old games, featuring advertising and art for manuals, boxes and patches. Like the Playstation 2 version, about an album's worth of pop music from the era (optionally) plays in the background while you play, as if you had a boombox by your television set (as the interface implies you would). <
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>Activision's games had a well-deserved reputation for: <
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>- Originality: Unlike many games of the era, they did not rely on licensed familiar characters or arcade licenses. These creations were innovative, quirky, and usually very fun. <
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>- Technical excellence: Despite being fast action games, none of these games displayed the flickering so often seen in other games designed for the primitive VCS. They use bright colors, fast scrolling, and other effects previously thought impossible. <
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>- Replayability: Activision's games were a forerunner of XBOX Live's "Achievement" system, where you could earn embroidered patches by reaching certain goals or scores in their games. In the 1980s, you would need to take a photograph of your television and mail it to the company. This collection simulates this by keeping a bulletin board with all of your patches. No, you don't get to put them on your jacket, but at least you don't need a Polaroid camera, either. <
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>The emulation of the games in this collection is very good, as we have come to expect from retro experts at Digital Eclipse. All games run at full speed with accurate sound. When stretched into fullscreen mode, the graphic filtering softens the edges of the pixels, which is attractive but makes everything look a bit fuzzy. I would have liked the option to keep everything sharp and jaggy. Alternatively, you can run the games in a window with an ugly but functional "heads-up display" that displays your control options in an intuitive way. This mode makes some of the more complex/abstract games like Space Shuttle much easier to follow since you don't have a paper manual for reference. <
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>A few Imagic games are thrown in for good measure (Demon Attack, Atlantis, and Moonsweeper), which are great. It's always good to have more games on this sort of thing, but it's possible that Activision doesn't have the rights to all of them. <
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>Conspicuously absent from the collection are the fan-made "homebrew" games that appeared on the GameBoy Advance, Windows, and Macintosh versions of this game. They were weird, creative, and fun ... but they aren't here. That's a disappointment, but the Activision games stand on their own. <
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>If you're a fan of the old Atari games and you have a PSP, you'll want this collection, but if you already have another version, this one doesn't bring anything new. If you're too young to know what Atari and Activision were all about, this would teach you, but be warned: these games are OLD and it's probably more like a trip to a museum than to a modern game store! Once you look past the ancient technology, however, you'll find a bevy of well-designed, fun, simple games here, perfectly suited to quick bursts of play.

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If you're not an old-school Atari addict, you won't be entertained with this release from Activision. If you do love all things Atari, then this release will bring back some much loved 2600 memories. <
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>Onto the list of games packed into this release: <
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>1. Atlantis <
>2. Barnstorming <
>3. Beamrider <
>4. Boxing <
>5. Bridge <
>6. Checkers <
>7. Chopper Command <
>8. Cosmic Commuter <
>9. Crackpots <
>10. Decathlon <
>11. Demon Attack <
>12. Dolphin <
>13. Dragster <
>14. Enduro <
>15. Fishing Derby <
>16. Freeway <
>17. Frostbite <
>18. Grand Prix <
>19. H.E.R.O. <
>20. Ice Hockey <
>21. Kabobber <
>22. Kaboom! <
>23. Keystone Kapers <
>24. Laser Blast <
>25. Moonsweeper <
>26. Megamania <
>27. Oink! <
>28. Pitfall! <
>29. Pitfall 2 <
>30. Plaque Attack <
>31. Pressure Cooker <
>32. Private Eye <
>33. River Raid <
>34. River Raid 2 <
>35. Robot Tank <
>36. Seaquest <
>37. Skiing <
>38. Sky Jinks <
>39. Space Shuttle <
>40. Spider Fighter <
>41. Stampede <
>42. Starmaster <
>43. Tennis <
>44. Thwocker <
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>The 80's soundtrack has some classic hits as well, but is limited to only twelve songs: <
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>1. "We're Not Gonna Take It" - Twisted Sister <
>2. "It's My Life" - Talk Talk <
>3. "Mexican Radio" - Wall of Voodoo <
>4. "Tainted Love" - Soft Cell <
>5. "Walking in L.A." - Missing Persons <
>6. "The Tide is High" - Blondie <
>7. "Always Something There to Remind Me" - Naked Eyes <
>8. "Pulling Mussels (From A Shell)" - Squeeze <
>9. "Take On Me" - A-Ha <
>10. "Harden My Heart" - Quarterflash <
>11. "No More Words" - Berlin <
>12. "Safety Dance" - Men Without Hats <
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>Plaque Attack and We're Not Gonna Take is my favorite combination so far...