Atari Greatest Hits


Atari Greatest Hits is a series of video game compilations developed by Code Mystics and published by Atari Interactive for the Nintendo DS and iOS. Consisting of arcade and Atari 2600 games from Atari, it was released into two volumes released in 2010 and 2011 respectively, while the app was released as a free-to-play model, and allowed for purchase of the extra games. The games include bonus features such as manuals, credits and interviews with Atari founder Nolan Bushnell.
Releases in the series have received positive reviews from IGN and Eurogamer while receiving more negative reviews from Nintendo Power and Nintendo Gamer.

Content

Both of the Nintendo DS releases contain an art gallery of pictures from their playable arcade games, Atari 2600 manuals from their playable arcade games and credits that detail the people who helped make them. Both volumes contain two other extras. While Volume 1 has a trivia game that gives players 20 randomly selected questions about Atari and Army Battlezone, a version of Battlezone commissioned by the US Army for Atari to train the gunners of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, Volume 2 has eight interviews from Nolan Bushnell, including video and audio and an Atari 400 Basic engine.
Atari's Greatest Hits was released as an app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch in April 2011. The app was free but only included Missile Command. The rest of the games could be purchased as downloadable content in packs of four, or as the entire collection.

List of games

The following games are included in Atari Greatest Hits: Volume 1.
TitleArcade2600
3D Tic-Tac-Toe
Adventure
Air-Sea Battle
Asteroids
Asteroids
Atari Video Cube
Basketball
Battlezone
The Bradley Trainer
Bowling
Centipede
Championship Soccer
Dodge 'Em
Flag Capture
Football
Fun with Numbers
Gravitar
Hangman
Haunted House
Home Run
Human [Cannonball (video game)|Human Cannonball]
Lunar Lander
Math Gran Prix
Golf (1979 video game)|Miniature Golf]
Missile Command
Outlaw
Pong
RealSports Baseball
RealSports Boxing
RealSports Football
RealSports Tennis
RealSports Volleyball
Sky Diver
Slot Machine
Slot Racers
Space Duel
Sprint Master
Star Ship
Stellar Track
Submarine Commander
Surround
Swordquest Earthworld
Swordquest Fireworld
Swordquest Waterworld
Tempest
Video Checkers

The following games are included in Atari Greatest Hits: Volume 2.
TitleArcade2600Note
Asteroids Deluxe
Backgammon
Black Widow
BASIC Programming
Blackjack3 player support
Brain Games2 player support
Breakout2 player support
Canyon Bomber2 player support
Casino4 player support
Circus Atari2 player support
Codebreaker2 player support
Combat2 player support
Combat Two2 player support
2 player support
Crystal Castles
Demons to Diamonds
Desert Falcon
Double Dunk2 player support
Fatal Run
2600 video game)|Golf]
Liberator
Major Havoc
Maze Craze2 player support
Millipede
Night Driver
Off-the-Wall
Quadrun
Radar Lock
RealSports Basketball2 player support
RealSports Soccer2 player support
Red Baron
Return to Haunted House
Secret Quest
Sentinel
Space War
Star Raiders
Steeplechase
Street Racer
Super Baseball2 player support
Super Breakout
Super Football2 player support
Video Chess
Video Olympics4 player support
Video Pinball
Warlords4 player support
Yars' Revenge

Reception

Volume 1

Writing for IGN, Craig Harris rated Atari Greatest Hits Volume 1 6 out of 10, and said that the 30 dollar price was too high. Harris noticed that the Nintendo DS's small screen can not properly display games with vector graphics, like Gravitar, Lunar Lander, and Asteroids, but he praised the title's "excellent multiplayer support" and "spot-on emulations". Alex Morgen at GamingBits.com gave it 3.5 of 5 stars in a generally positive review. Harris and Morgen both said that many of the included titles would not hold gamers' attention for very long. Nintendo Power rated it 5 out of 10, while Nintendo Gamer gave it 22 out of 100.

iOS

Eurogamer gave the app a seven out of ten rating, finding it superior to Microsoft's similarly themed Game Room, and while finding many Atari 2600 games to be dated and that it lacked many games made under the Atari Games company.