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Yes it is indeed!

I didn't get mine as a gift, but I have to say it is the absolute most fun I've EVER gotten out of anything that cost $30.00 in my entire life!

Me and the wife were playing it again together earlier tonight!

Anything that can get my wife in to gaming has got to be worth it's weight in gold!

Some arcade games, though, just can't be played in the same way without the ol' arcade grips.

Sounds fun though. I bought the Activision Anthology for the GBA and was disappointed because the backlighting on the screen made it seem all washed out and faded to the point I could not enjoy the games at all. Oh well.

Todd's Atari News update:
I met with my father over this past weekend. He gave me back the Atari carts that he still had stored at his house.

I got them!

Woo hoo!

I've been playing some here and there as I can find the time. Time, or course, is hard to find these days. I had so much of it as a kid, and now it's a precious and rare commodity these days.

But I've had some time to enjoy a few good games.

Atari Mrs. Pac Man was an AWESOME recreation of the arcade hit back in the day. I still remember buying mine at the local "Big N" store... or was it "Ames" by then? Whatever the name was, I remember buying the game. It was $29.95 plus tax. It came to about $32 - which was a heafty fee for a 6th grader like myself. I mean, my allowance was only a couple dollars a week. But oh how sweet it was!

Everything they screwed up with Atari Pac Man was pretty much made up for in this game. The mazes weren't just like the arcade, but close enough, and instead of dots, you were still eating dashes, and there were no intermission cartoons... oh, and the mazes changed every two boards instead of 2, then 3, then 4 like in the arcade, but aside from that, the game was frikin' SWEET! The sounds were pretty close... well, for Atari sounds, they were pretty close. It had the opening game these almost perfect, and the ghosts were all different colors this time - AND they even moved at different speeds! The mazes didn't change at the right number of cleared boards, but they CHANGED! How sweet was that back in 1982?!! How I loved playing this game, and I spend many, many hours on it. I used to get so excited when I'd get to the 4th and final maze - it was a rare treat for me. As much as I played the game, I could not always get to the final maze. I wasn't very good with my strategies back then.


And I got to play this game over the weekend! Here it is - my own Atari Ms. Pac Man on my own Atari VCS and I'm playing it on a TV just like back in the day! I played a few games back to back. I am much better at it now then I was back then, although I still didn't make it to the 4th maze. Oh well - not bad for not having played the game in years. Funny thing - I'm happier playing Atari Ms. Pac Man than I would be hitting the arcade version of it! Probably because of the nostalgia value - I played a lot more Atari Ms. Pac Man than I ever got to in the arcade.

Yes, that was and STILL is such a sweet game! Now I have Ms. Pac Man on my communicator - and it looks and plays pretty much just like the arcade version. But again - playing the Atari version is just too much fun for me right now!

I also played some Atari Defender. That was another game I spent many hours playing back in the day. I've heard how some people didn't care for it because it wasn't much like the arcade version, but I still loved the game, and was very good at it back in the day. I played a single game over the weekend, and I did very well - lasted several "waves" - and through a few mutant levels. Those were tough, but once you get in a groove, they're pretty easy. Though not as cool as the arcade game was, I loved this game and played it much. BTW - I never lasted 30 seconds on the arcade machine - it was so damn hard and I never had enough quarters to get any good at it. I loved the few seconds of game play I'd get on it though. The game just looked so cool!

Phoenix. That game was amazingly close to the arcade version. It was one of the games I'd hit at the arcade frequently (on the rare occasions I could actually get there AND have some quarters to spare). When Atari came out with the game - I was very excited. And playing it was awesome! Again - it was so very close to the arcade version - with ALL the boards of the arcade version, minus the warping effect and the swarm of enemies on the boss level. The graphics were pretty damn good for Atari - while not dead on, they were

TheReelTodd Wrote:Todd's Atari News update: I met with my father over this past weekend. He gave me back the Atari carts that he still had stored at his house. I got them! Woo hoo! I've been playing some...

Hey, glad to hear you got your carts back!

There's nothing quite like playing Atari, is there?

And you're right about Ms. Pac-Man. It was amazingly close to the arcade version compared to Atari Pac-Man; the difference between those two carts was like night and day.

Atari Defender and Berzerk were two of my favorites. In my opinion, they were very close to the arcade versions.

Atari Phoenix was one of those games I wanted but never got for some reason.

I did have The Empire Strikes Back, and that was a great game, too.

Man, playing Atari ROCKED!

I had some of the Atari Force comics, and a Swordquest comic. Never got the Yar one tho, cuz I got the sears telegames version of the game.

Coooool!


There was a comic for Centipede? I never knew that.

Boingo_Buzzard Wrote:Supposedly there were pointers in the game that would direct you to a page in comic that would give you some kind of clue in figuring out the game itself. I remember a friend had Swordquest: Earthworld, and we came across one of the hints. We looked in the comic, but could not make heads, nor tails of what they were trying to direct us to, or what it meant. From what I hear that was generally the consensus of the public and the rest of the games did not do well... and I think one wasn't even made, right?

That's interesting piece of info regarding the link between the comic and the game. It's a nifty idea, actually. It'd be cool to see how it worked.

I'm pretty sure you are correct about the games' poor retail performance being the reason that the last cart, Swordquest AirWorld, was never even finished according to AtariAge.com.order abortion pill http://unclejohnsprojects.com/template/default.aspx?morning-after-pill-price where to buy abortion pill

Nikster Wrote:From what I have heard, only the first 2 games were available in stores (Earthworld & Firewold). The third one, Waterworld, was only available thru the Atari Club. The last game in the series, Airworld was never made. I had Earthworld....it was confusing.

I never had any of the Swordquest games, but now I have all three on the Atari: 80 Classic Games in One! CD I just picked up so now I get a chance to see what they're about.

Hey, wait a second... it just occured to me that since all three comics are online I can try playing through the games and looking for the clues! Cooool!

Nikster Wrote:I had some of the Atari Force comics, and a Swordquest comic. Never got the Yar one tho, cuz I got the sears telegames version of the game.

MutoidMan Wrote:Wow, I had completely forgotten that the Swordquest games came with comics. Probably because I never had any of the Swordquest games. The Yar's Revenge comic is cool... I wonder... Yep! Lookie what I found: Atari Comic Books!

Haaaaaaaaaaa!

I had completely forgotten about those comics!

I read through the Yars' Revenge one on break at work today - classic stuff!

Those little comics made playing the games even more fun. It was back in the days before elaborate game set-ups and well-animated cut-scenes could weave the story in to the game. So the reading the comics made the games even more fun because then you really felt like you were on the mission set up in the comic story!

Wow - that was a great find! That really brings back memories!

** starts singing to the tune of "Memories" **

Memmmm-ries!
Of the Atari V-C-S!
And of those awesome little cooooom-ic books.
We used to read as kiiiiiids...

MutoidMan Wrote:Next I'd like to pick up the Activision Anthology Remix, which is a collection of Activision games for the Atari 2600. From what I've read it also includes all of the games from Imagic, so this is something I'd really like to pick up. If I get it, I'll post about it.

I just picked up the Activision Anthology Remix from CompUSA earlier this evening for the low, low price of $9.99!

Here's the list of all 76 games:

Boxing
Bridge
Checkers
Dragster
Fishing Derby
Skiing
Freeway®
Ice Hockey
Pitfall!® 2: The Lost Caverns
Robot Tank
Kaboom!®
Demon Attack
Laser Blast
Tennis
Atlantis
Barnstorming
Chopper Command
Stampede
Kabobber
Thwocker
Grand Prix
Megamania: A Space Nightmare
Pitfall!®
River Raid®
Tomcat F14
River Raid® 2
Baseball
Skyjinks
Spider Fighter
Starmaster
Beamrider
Moonsweeper
Crackpots
Decathlon
Dolphin
Enduro
Frostbite
Keystone Kapers
Oink!
Commando™
Plaque Attack
Pressure Cooker
Private Eye
Titlematch Pro Wrestling
Seaquest
Space Shuttle: A Journey Into Space
Cosmic Commuter
Hero
Atlantis 2
Climber 5
Cosmic Ark
Dragonfire
Video Euchre
Fathom
Fire Fighter
Laser Gates
No Escape!
Okie
Oystron
Quick Step
Shootin' Gallery
Bloody Human Freeway
Vault Assault
Venetian Blinds
Wing War
Star Voyager
Subterranea
Trick Shot
Skateboardin'
Skeleton+
Sky Patrol
Solar Storm
Space Treat Deluxe
Riddle of the Sphinx
Activision Prototype 1
Activision Prototype 2

Yes, I'm a happy gamer!