The day has arrived, and with the arrival of the latest patch, they added
12 11 games from the Atari 2600 to the collection. Those games are:
- Adventure II (homebrew)
- Aquaventure (prototype)
- Bowling
- Circus Atari
- Double Dunk
- Maze Craze
- Miniature Golf
- MotoRodeo
- Return to Haunted House (homebrew)
- Save Mary (prototype)
- Super Football
Although there are only 11 2600 games in the list, they did add one more game...from the Lynx. That game is:
Great update!
A couple notes on the games above, as a few lucky people might have
already played one or two of the above games in this collection:
The Atari VCS version of Atari 50 only received 10 new 2600 games today. That's because Circus Atari was already in that version of the collection as a bonus game.
Some people who had the physical version of Atari 50 observed that Warbirds for the Lynx appeared in the collection, as long as your installation was not patched. The game was
removed from Atari 50 with the "day one" patch. Why? Supposedly, Warbirds was one of the intellectual properties that Atari sold off to Tommo several years ago, when the company was strapped for cash. Just prior to Atari 50's release last year, Atari learned that they no longer had rights to the game, and were obligated to remove it. Recently, Atari reacquired the rights to Warbirds from Tommo, and thus they are now able to reinstate this game into the collection.
Hopefully we'll see Checkered Flag (Lynx), Iron Soldier (Jag), Iron Soldier 2 (Jag CD), Gates of Zendocon (Lynx) and Battlemorph (Jag CD).
A rousing "Yes! Yes! Yes!" to all of the above!
This guy's a
hardcore fan of the Jaguar. I know AJ Styles is, too.
Gates of Zendocon might be a bit tough, considering that it's an Epyx game. That said, Blaze was able to get this and almost every other Epyx-developed Lynx game onto one of their Evercade cartridges. Perhaps Atari might consider opening their wallet to bring the Epyx Lynx games into the fold.
Oh nice. I play this all the time! I wish there was a way to get Klax into it.
Heck yeah, It may be the twenties, but there is
still time for Klax!
And let’s not get into the issue of arcade live sing where the original publisher refuses to ever grant licensing rights ever again. I’m looking at you jerks, Taito. “Bah, our arcade Space Invaders is the best.” Whatever.
Square Enix (who owns Taito) has disavowed the 2600 version of Space Invaders, since the game isn't "close enough" to the arcade original, particularly the visuals. They boast that the character representations from the arcade game are "iconic"...and they're right. But, I'd also say that the 2600 invader designs--though quite different--are equally iconic. They are permanently etched into the memory of anyone who ever held an Atari joystick in the 1980s. Still, Square Enix refuses to budge on the issue, and that's why various incarnations of Atari Flashback self-contained game consoles use an alternate "quasi-arcade" recreation of the game, rather than the 2600 version that so many of us grew up with. They have no qualms over some of their other properties (e.g. Jungle Hunt) being presented as the 2600 versions, but Space Invaders continues to remain off the table.
I think Konami might hold a similar attitude about the
two versions of Frogger for the 2600.