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Atari Vault Hits Steam, Play 100 Classic Games On PC (slashgear.com)
An anonymous reader quotes an article on SlashGear: Classic and retro video game fans will be eager to hear that Atari Vault has just landed on PC via Steam, making it the easiest way possible to enjoy 100 of the most iconic arcade and home console titles from the early generation of gaming. This eliminates the need to use emulators and ROMs to enjoy games like Asteroids, Centipede, Pitfall, and Pong, not to mention it being cheaper than buying several included titles individually.
That's nice, but we've been emulating them for years. It's... not really much of a hassle.
That said, it's nice to have legit means of getting them. Though TBH, most games from before the SNES/Genesis era haven't aged very well, with a few notable exceptions.
Atari, Namco, and others released most of their popular old-school titles (in "anthology" form) for the PS/2 years ago. If I remember correctly, every anthology disk I bought was less than $15 - and I think a couple were under $10.
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That comes off as kind of weird, really. Surely they could have slapped together some kind of Mac or Linux rendition in 23 minutes.
from a really old "feature phone", to a PSP (any hackable generation), to a damned web browser in JAVA and they release this as Windows Only.
On top of that Valve chose Linux for the Steam Box.
BRILLIANT Atari.
is to play the extinct Atari and non-Atari games that will never make it to the "Atari 100" list.
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BMO
Get the hell out!
I'll keep my money then and buy weed with it.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
[...] Asteroids, Centipede, Pitfall, and Pong [...]
Pitfall wasn't an Atari title, it was an Activision title. Not sure why it got included in this list.
Atari Vault only includes games created by the company. Classic 2600 games from companies like Activision, Namco, Parker Brothers, and others aren't here, including Berzerk, Empire Strikes Back, Frogger, Joust, Pitfall, Q-Bert, and Pole Position.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3048362/windows/the-atari-vault-hits-steam-with-100-classic-games-to-scratch-your-retro-2600-itch.html
I already have 'Atari: 80 Classic Games in One!' in my Steam library, which appears to have been removed from the Steam store 6 months ago. https://steamdb.info/app/2790/
Have you seen the system requirements for this?
Processor: 2.0 Ghz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 or higher compatible
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 1 GB available space
What sort of bloat have they put into it?
I actually installed the Steam client and set up an account for this. I was whipping out my credit card to make the $17 purchase... then I saw that it's only available on Windows. Oh, well. Hopefully they'll port it to Linux before too long. Or even OS X.
In a thread about classic games, we find a classic troll. Rewarded with a classic -1, no less!
Aw man, can you feel the love?
But I thought they'd managed to recover the code from its burial in the desert, dammit.
One day we will simple stop. Atari provided me with the happiest moments of my life.
Atari's time has passed. Some of believe that such great games will return some day. Personally, I believe such great games will never exist in my lifetime.
Does not include ET. Meh...pass
Atari was the last of the great gaming systems. There will never be another. It changed the future, and it changed us. It showed us that we have to care for games, because otherwise who will? The true strength of the games came from design rather than technology. The games gave us new hope. As for the rest of us, we'll never know such joy.
Well said. Others just won't understand.
I guess the rest of us will be sticking with our emulators for the time being.
And does it differ from:
Atari: 80 Classic Games in One!
Which I got on Steam several years ago. The store page is long-gone but it's still in my library and substantially the same program.
get an emulator and those 100 games - and all the others - for free on the Internet for any system you own, or you could pay $15 or w/e and only play it using Steam on Windows. Sounds like a bad deal.
Apparently, plan to release a linux port after they fix some things.
Reference:
https://steamcommunity.com/app...
That's bullshit. That's the game everyone want to play.
The new owners of slash dot are nuts. They ban IPS all the time and prevent calssic trolls. Welcome to a world without anonymous or publius. The world is changing and the SJW Nazis get to edit reality
Gnaa plus greasy go Linux Yoda Jedi stuff. Lol. Mental.
I agree. This would be targeted at us old school geek geezers that run Linux. If there was a Linux offering I'd be buying right now. Back to Dwarf Fortress for me (and Factorio, and X-com, and...)
Right, because we all know "popular" means "good."
Consider thinking for yourself instead of chewing cud with the herd.
Cry me a river.
Steam is as Linux-friendly a distributor you'll find anywhere. But this is the reality of PC gaming on Steam:
96% of Steam gamers run Windows. 34% 64 Bit Win 10. 3% OSX. 1% Linux. 0.4% Ubuntu. 0.1% Mint. Steam Hardware & Software Survey: February 2016
Wow, 100 Atari games?!? For only $15?!? The easiest way possible?
And here I was thinking that the 500+ free Atari games playable for free in your browser on archive.org was the easiest possible way.
Atari Vault only includes games created by the company. Classic 2600 games from companies like Activision, Namco, Parker Brothers, and others aren't here, including Berzerk, Empire Strikes Back, Frogger, Joust, Pitfall, Q-Bert, and Pole Position.
Atari published the original releases of Berzerk, Joust, and Pole Position for the 2600.
I see a Windows version only. I guess its easy to support a console OS like Windows, but hopefully it will hit a general purpose PC OS soon enough.
Does it include DungeonMaster?
Nolan Bushnell once said his biggest regret was selling Atari to Warner when he did. "We could have been Apple and Nintendo under one roof," he mused.
Valve have been pushing into the console space, and they've been doing it very persistently, with Steam OS and Steam Machines and Steam Link and the Steam Controller, not to mention their developer tools. They're encroaching on the console world and also trying to break away from dependence on Microsoft. None of this stuff has been a runaway hit yet, but they just keep hammering away at it, and there's no indication that they're going to back off anytime soon. And somehow it reminds me of Atari back in the Good Old Days, before everything spiraled down the toilet.
And that reminds me. . . Is there NO GAME anywhere on Steam that's anything like Tempest 2000? (Or Typhoon 2001?)
They've had an ipad/iphone version called Atari Greatest Hits with the same content for much less for some time. I assume there's an android version also.
All I want is Kaboom! and a USB paddle controller :(