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Activision Anthology

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Date Released: Nov 20, 2002

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Activision Anthology takes you back to the glory days, for old-school arcade action!

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Retro games were cool....when the came out

I grew up playing games in arcades, and at home on my Atari 5200. I thought buying this game would bring me back to the fun I had as a kid. It didn't. The game itself is fine, however with the upgraded technologies (graphics, sounds, controls) of todays games, these just don't seem fun anymore.
 

Retro gaming Heaven

If you owned an Atari 2600 or VCS in the 80s, you played these games. Activision made Atari games and kicked it up a notch in terms of graphics and game play. Practically the whole Activision library is here, and even a couple of Imagic games like Atlantis and Demon Attack. There's over 45 games on this disc, including:

Chopper Command
Crackpots
Freeway
Kaboom
Megamania
Pitfall 1 & 2
Plaque Attack
Pressure Cooker
River Raid 1 & 2
Seaquest
Spider Fighter
Stampede

Sports:

Boxing
Enduro
Fishing Derby
Grand Prix
Ice Hockey
Skiing
Tennis

In addition to the games, there's also an 80s music soundtrack to take you back in time as well. You can unlock various rewards for high scores (like patches and clips of the original commercials for these games) and play the games in different ways other than the standard one. There's something for everyone here. Some cute games like Barnstorming, Dolphin, Oink and Sky Jinks. Some games never released on compilations before, like Beamrider, Decathlon, Robot Tank and Space Shuttle. There's even a game of checkers on here. Hard to believe that games with four bits of memory were once the standard. This collection of games proves that going back in time can be fun. Get this game collection, you'll love it!
 

Great Games Review

All the classic games in here are a blast to play again even in over a decade. Pick this one up if you're an old school of the 80's fan collector. Plus, the disk has tons of unlockable stuff, it even has 80's retro music, how cool is that? Though, I think it should have more 80's songs, but good enough.
A must buy. You'll enjoy it.
 

This ROCKS!!!

This is Atari greatness at its best! Like someone said, DON'T PASS THIS BY!!! These are the glory dayz of gaming!! They are forever alive within me for they are the ONLY THINGS I have left after the Air Force was done screwing my Life!!!! All I have are my precious vidoe games with their immortal character such as the unforgettables as Link, Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, Princess Zelda, Toad, Samus, Yuri from Breath of Fire, and Nina, my dark angel also from Breath of Fire. They will NEVER be lost to me and will NEVER leave me!!! LONG LIVE VIDEO GAMES FOR ALL ETERNITY!!!!
 

Activision Rocks!

Activision Anthology
Back in the 80's almost everyone owned the Atari 2600/VCS.Atari Anthology covers 85 games (18) arcade) and it's fantastic! However,just like the 80's Activision Anthology just rocks it harder! Activision was the first "third party publisher" for the Atari.Made up of former Atari programmers they made the 2600/VCS do things previously thought impossible.Better graphics,more colors,and intense action that to this day tests any gamers skill to the limit!
Not only do you get 45 games but you get an 80's soundtrack! Cool extras like virtual patch's you can earn by hitting a certain score.All the greats are here from the groundbreaking Pitfall (Pitfall2 as well) Laser Blast,River Raid (River Raid 2) Starmaster and Kaboom to name a few.There are also a few classics not made by Activision as well. Demon Attack and atlantis from Imagic are here! Demon Attack being by far one of the best Invaders/galaxian type games ever produced IMO.
Games thought impossible to make work on the 2600 like Space Shuttle,Tomcat the f-14 simulator are amazing.Games that atari made are one upped by Activison like Robot Tank (Battlezone),Spiderfighter/Megamania/Demon Attack (invaders/galaxian/Phoniex)Starmaster (star Raiders almost unplayable on Atari anthology due to a wierd controller sceme)Beamrider (Tempest) Enduro (Pole Position) and many more. They even made the paddle controls work (better but not perfect) for Kaboom!
Even in the new century Activision beats Atari! This is the better anthology but I reccomend both! With Atari Anthology and Activision Anthology you really get an almost complete Atari 2600 experience! And oddly enough playing Demon Attack to the Safty Dance somehow works.

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Features:

This collection features 40 classic games on one CD -- all the old classics like Kaboom, Rampage and Chopper Command

Play the classic games in two different mode - the original cheesy Classic mode, or the 3D Enhanced version

Plus you also get to see what was going through game developer's heads at the time -- check out unreleased prototypes, demos and other video game oddities

You can jam out to the awesome 80s style game soundtracks

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