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Author Topic: Atari Remakes for 40th Anniversary  (Read 3532 times)

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Atari Remakes for 40th Anniversary
« on: September 02, 2012, 07:12 PM »
This looks like a bit of retro fun:

http://www.huffingto...4.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. :)
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Re: Atari Remakes for 40th Anniversary
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: Atari Remakes for 40th Anniversary
« Reply #2 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!
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Re: Atari Remakes for 40th Anniversary
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2012, 05:38 PM »