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Title: Atari Remakes for 40th Anniversary
Post by: Renegade on September 02, 2012, 07:12 PM

This looks like a bit of retro fun:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/08/31/atari-classics-remade-for_n_1845744.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

Get ready to stop working: Atari and Microsoft have released an 'arcade' of classic games for free.

Celebrating Atari's 40th birthday - and Microsoft's upcoming launch of Internet Explorer 10 - the collaboration sees eight games brought back to life with HTML 5.

The games are all playable on Atari's website - ad-free if you use Internet Explorer.

The games are:

Asteroids
Pong
Lunar Lander
Missile Command
Centipede
Combat
Yars' Revenge
Super Breakout

A few games that I remember there. :)

Title: Re: Atari Remakes for 40th Anniversary
Post by: Renegade on September 02, 2012, 07:25 PM

Lunar Lander didn't seem to work. Super Breakout sucks without paddles. Missile Command was nifty. Yars' Revenge needs paddles as well. Still, all pretty cool. Didn't try any others.

Title: Re: Atari Remakes for 40th Anniversary
Post by: x16wda on September 04, 2012, 07:39 PM

Pong was a little disappointing; the graphics weren't as smooth as I would have thought, and the ball had a tendency to fall in the gap between the edge of the field and the edge of the paddle at its farthest.

I really wanted to see Defender, that was the bomb back on my Atari 400!

Title: Re: Atari Remakes for 40th Anniversary
Post by: Deozaan on September 28, 2012, 05:38 PM

Here's the real link:

http://www.atari.com/arcade#!/arcade/atari-promo (http://www.atari.com/arcade#!/arcade/atari-promo)