Atari Anthology
© 2004 Atari
Send your PlayStation 2 or Xbox into a time warp with 85 of the first Atari arcade games, on one disk. First you see a main menu, in the form of a galaxy. Each category of software is represented by a cluster of stars -- selecting one zooms into a list of the games. The stars of this CD are the 18 classic arcade games, including the famous Asteroids (shoot from a rotating craft, trying to break up an asteroid field before they hit you), Centipede (shoot a falling stream of bugs), Missile Command, Super Breakout and Warlords. Each of the classic games includes some of the original documentation (e.g., users guides) and several screen viewing options. The audio and video quality is identical to the original game. Note that many of the games are of little interest except to those who are students of game design. It is fun to see so much of yesterday's content on just one of today's disks.
$40, PS2, Xbox
Teaches: history of video games