New Atari Games Revealed

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Posted by Zonk on Thursday October 21, 2004 @05:45AM from the go-macedonia! dept.

Thanks to HomeLANFed for the news that several new Atari games have been revealed on the official site. These include the action title "Chronos", and the much anticipated Civilization IV.

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Anyone else... by Lendrick · 2004-10-21 05:52 · Score: 2, Interesting

Did anyone else think that someone tried to implement Civilization on an Atari 2600 cartridge as a joke?
1. Re:Anyone else... by gl4ss · 2004-10-21 06:11 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  nope..
  
  but do you know what's amazing?
  civ1 only needed cga, 640kb and 8088 cpu to run(not sure if it required hd too), and gameplaywise the newest variants aren't that far off from it.
  
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2. Re:Anyone else... by AuMatar · 2004-10-21 09:27 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I don't know, isn't 90% of the game shades of black anyway?
  
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3. Re:Anyone else... by Jacek+Poplawski · 2004-10-21 18:55 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Cyan, magenta and white would be crazy, you need just black.
Civ IV by OrangeStar · 2004-10-21 05:56 · Score: 3, Funny

With a new title! "Almost as good as the last one!" Which was almost as good as the last one..

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1. Re:Civ IV by Daetrin · 2004-10-21 06:30 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  With a new title! "Almost as good as the last one!" Which was almost as good as the last one..
  Actually, if you'd been paying attention to previous news on the subject, you would know that a more proper title would be "As different from the previous game as we can make it and still call it Civilization," which will doubtless please some people and cause them to declare that it's the best Civ other while enraging others and causing them to declare that it's the worst Civ ever.
  And generally speaking, the majority of people seem to agree that Civ2 was a big improvement over the original Civ, while opinion is split on whether Civ2 or Civ3 was better.
  And in other news, as the updated article now says the games are no longer listed, which makes sense since as far as I can tell the list consists entirely of already released games.
  
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2. Re:Civ IV by great+throwdini · 2004-10-21 09:37 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  ...and Alpha Centauri remains the best of any games spawned out of the series.
  
  Though, in my opinion, it was by far the easiest of the bunch to "win" against AI opponents. The buggiest, as well. The unit customization was an interesting feature to add, but I think, in the end, it was simply something that the AI couldn't effectively cope with (among other things). More fun than Civ III, but pretty flawed in terms of balance.
3. Re:Civ IV by Daetrin · 2004-10-21 12:12 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  and Alpha Centauri remains the best of any games spawned out of the series.
  Well that goes without saying :)
  It might be nice to see a sequel to Alpha Centauri, however they'd either have to stick to just updating the graphics and AI or redo the entire thing from scratch. The old storyline was great, with compelling voice acting for the various quotes and other story bits and Baraka was a gold mine for the video clips.
  
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You sure about that? by Orne · 2004-10-21 05:59 · Score: 4, Informative

Because i just clicked on Show All (after visiting Atari's page linked in the article), and Civilization IV is no longer in the list. Perhaps someone noticed, and retracted the listings.

The internet, it is fleeting...
Wish they would list the Linux titles seperately by wowbagger · 2004-10-21 06:11 · Score: 2, Insightful

I wish they would list those titles that are available under Linux seperately, rather than having a small footnote in the PC-CDROM section.

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WTF? by dogbowl · 2004-10-21 06:58 · Score: 2, Funny

Are these 2k or 4k cartidges? There wasn't any mention of that.
Do I get to finally use my paddle controllers?

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"offical" statement from Atari by pjgunst · 2004-10-21 09:10 · Score: 5, Informative

There truly is a Civ 4, but we are not announcing anything definitive about it just yet. The majority of Firaxis's programmers at this point are focused on the Sid Meier's Pirates! release this November. But a team has been working on Civ 4 for sometime already.

We'll have more information available in 2005, including features, screenshots, and some sort of launch date.

Best,
Jeff Foley
Sr. Brand Manager
Atari
1. Re:"offical" statement from Atari by pjgunst · 2004-10-21 09:22 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  always forget to refer to my sources: http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showthread.ph p?s=d9cc8b2fb7f30464c464300cdb8d5f43&threadid=4084 92
  
  quickly scanned the forum for more info... but they seem reluctant to comment on users wishes for Civ4.
  Thanks Sid for the great games, been playing them ever since Civ1 was released.
Re:Pollution by AuMatar · 2004-10-21 09:30 · Score: 2, Insightful

BUild more workers, and keep them spread over the map. Pollution was a very small amount of the game.

What they do need to do is work on combat. It would be nice to see different units having different abilities. If two stacks fight they should fight as armies, not as individual units.

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Re:I've been saying for the longest time by curtlewis · 2004-10-21 11:57 · Score: 2, Interesting

It's not the same Atari. The original Atari folded for good in the mid to late 90s. Somehow, these pretenders managed to snake the name.
Re:I've been saying for the longest time by Scrameustache · 2004-10-21 13:17 · Score: 3, Informative

The original Atari folded for good in the mid to late 90s.

80's, actually, this is like the 5th fompany or so to use the name. Highly recognised name brand, people feel confident about it, more than about "infogramme" anyway.

Sneaky? You betcha!

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Re:I've been saying for the longest time by chrispyman · 2004-10-21 14:34 · Score: 2, Informative

No, Atari never had anything to do with Pacman at all. Namco was the company that made the original Pacman, and the licensed out their US distribution to Bally Midway. Atari did have a few US distribution licenses with Namco, most notably with Pole Position and Dig Dug.