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About This Game:  Rating: E for Everyone.  Publisher: Atari Interactive.  Year: 2004.

    For retro Atari fans only!  This is a collection of 86 classic Atari games from the arcade and Atari 2600 console era.  These aren't bad games, and they're all kid-friendly, but they're so limited.  As far as video games are concerned, I've always felt that the medium didn't start getting good until the late 1980s.  All of these games come from the late 1970s to mid 1980s.  The games are all made up of crude little blocky shapes with flat colors and blips that, I guess, are supposed to mean something.  And there's no end to them!  They go on forever!  I prefer games that you can finish.  These games are cute in a way, but I'd be lying if I said they're comparable to today's games.

    The coolest thing about this disc is the presentation.  The menus are nice, all with a constellation theme.  If you're a video game historian, you'll really get a kick out of this set.  There are 18 classic arcade games, and 68 Atari 2600 games.  Here is the list of games:
Arcade Games:
  1. Asteroids
  2. Asteroids Deluxe
  3. Atari Black Widow
  4. Atari Red Baron
  5. Atari Space Duel
  6. Battlezone
  7. Centipede
  8. Crystal Castles
  9. Gravitar
  10. Liberator
  11. Lunar Lander
  12. Major Havoc
  13. Millipede
  14. Missile Command
  15. Pong
  16. Super Breakout
  17. Tempest
  18. Warlords

Atari 2600 Games:
  1. Atari 3D Tic Tac Toe
  2. Atari Adventure
  3. Atari Air-Sea Battle
  4. Atari Combat
  5. Atari Dodge 'Em
  6. Atari Flag Capture
  7. Atari Home Run
  8. Atari Math Gran Prix
  9. Atari Maze Craze
  10. Atari Night Driver
  11. Atari Outlaw
  12. Atari Red Baron
  13. Atari Slot Racers
  14. Atari Space War
  15. Atari Star Ship
  16. Atari Street Racer
  17. Atari Submarine Commander
  18. Atari Super Baseball
  19. Atari Super Football
  20. Atari Surround
  21. Atari Video Cube
  22. Asteroids
  23. Backgammon
  24. Battlezone
  25. Blackjack
  26. Bowling
  27. Breakout
  28. Canyon Bomber
  29. Casino
  30. Centipede
  31. Circus Atari
  32. Crystal Castles
  33. Demons to Diamonds
  34. Desert Falcon
  35. Double Dunk
  36. Football
  37. Fun With Numbers
  38. Golf
  39. Gravitar
  40. Hangman
  41. Haunted House
  42. Human Cannonball
  43. Millipede
  44. Miniature Golf
  45. Missile Command
  46. Off the Wall
  47. Quadrun
  48. Radar Lock
  49. Realsports Baseball
  50. Realsports Football
  51. Realsports Tennis
  52. Realsports Volleyball
  53. Sky Diver
  54. Slot Machine
  55. Sprint Master
  56. Star Raiders
  57. Steeplechase
  58. Stellar Track
  59. Super Breakout
  60. Swordquest: Earthworld
  61. Swordquest: Fireworld
  62. Swordquest: Waterworld
  63. Video Checkers
  64. Video Chess
  65. Video Olympics
  66. Video Pinball
  67. Warlords
  68. Yars' Revenge

History: This game set was designed by Atari Interactive in 2004 and released on the platforms Xbox and Playstation 2.  An earlier version of this game collection was released for PC (Microsoft Windows) in 2003 and called, "Atari- 80 Classic Games in One!".

   The Windows version of this set has a slightly different collection of games than the Xbox/PS2 versions.  The Xbox and PS2 are practically identical.  But Windows has the following games that the consoles do not: A Game of Concentration, BASIC Programming, Codebreaker.  The following games were exclusive to the Xbox/PS2 versions: Atari Video Cube, Backgammon, Hangman.

    This is a well-respected game set that presents a pretty good history of early Atari.