Atari Flashback Classics PS4/Xbox One

[kupomogli]

Up for preorder on Amazon is Atari Flashbacks Vol 1 and Vol 2. Kind of a scummy move that there's 50 games per disc so they can charge $20 each, but they do include online leaderboards and online multiplayer according to the box. Most games are for the Atari 2600, it includes some arcade versions(most of them that have 2600/Arcade versions it includes both.)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B01G3WBR78/

[The S]

Pretty godawful pricing but I just may have to bite. I love the box art, for one....

At least I get a discount with Prime.

[otaku]

i will likely buy though they have a pc version as well i believe that i was eyeballing before seeing this. i just got the xbox original version for $3 at a local shop but of course its offline now so... the scores are just for me and my visitors haha

[Satoshi_Matrix]

Do we even know what games are going to be included? Most of the 2600's best games weren't first party Atari titles, but were created by Activision, Namco and Imagic especially. If this is a collection of first party only games, I'm out. Games like Ms Pacman, River Raid and Demon Attack are why I own a real 2600.

[Leo_A]

Do we even know what games are going to be included? Most of the 2600's best games weren't first party Atari titles, but were created by Activision, Namco and Imagic especially. If this is a collection of first party only games, I'm out. Games like Ms Pacman, River Raid and Demon Attack are why I own a real 2600.

Yes, the game list is out.

http://armchairarcade.com/perspectiv...-ps4-xbox-one/

An adviser of sorts that AtGames contracts out to work with them posts at AtariAge (That's his website that I've linked to above). AtGames was looking at $40 or so for the full package but retailers wanted $20 titles to sell since they correctly surmised that's the sweet spot for these, so the package was split in two just like on the DS in order to make the numbers work for everyone.

And as one can guess, this is a console port of the recent Steam release of Atari Vault and is being published by AtGames on consoles, hence the Flashback tag.

If this is a collection of first party only games, I'm out. Games like Ms Pacman, River Raid and Demon Attack are why I own a real 2600.

It's just 1st party non-licensed arcade and VCS titles like in the past.

What's new here for the arcade category that wasn't seen on earlier retail Atari compilations like Atari Anthology for arcade games is Sprint. Missing is Battlezone due to the short sighted decision recently to sell that IP off. Bonus stuff that we've had before that are absent here are Tempest Tubes (A homebrew hack from back in the day that arcade operators installed to remix Tempest) and the Bradley Trainer prototype for the US Army that was based off Battlezone.

Additions for the 2600 are Race/Indy 500 (Seen on last year's Atari Flashback), Save Mary, and the Stunt Cycle prototype. Absent due to being sold off are Battlezone, Basic Programming, and Math Grand Prix. The Combat AI homebrew hack that Atari Anthology included a decade ago is absent here.

Most of the 2600's best games weren't first party Atari titles, but were created by Activision, Namco and Imagic especially.

Perhaps the more exciting information with this is that AtGames plans these as just the first two volumes of Atari's legacy that they plan to release on the PS4/XB1 and perhaps the NX if that's a hit. So while not treading into new territory where the game list for these two is concerned, it's hopefully a stepping stone towards new frontiers for Atari compilations after all of these years of basically the same material being recycled.

And other compilations are also under consideration for other publisher's work, with I think this individual mentioning the Intellivision and Colecovision as two possibilities. And Activision/Imagic would be a gold mine of classics for various platforms including the 2600 if they can ever get them to play ball.

[Satoshi_Matrix]

There are a few excellent first party Atari games on the 2600, but I can't help but feel these collections are total garbage without including Namco, Imagic and especially Activision games. Ugh. Even $5 on PSN would be too much to pay for these first party-only collections. Was interested, but definitely am not now.

[Zap!]

Pretty godawful pricing but I just may have to bite. I love the box art, for one....

At least I get a discount with Prime.

On Amazon it's $ 24.99 & free shipping. Seems totally reasonable to me. I just ordered one.

[The S]

So apparently they still have the PS4 version available and it's just the Xbox One version that's been delayed or worse? Balls.

EDIT:

Greetings!!

Thank you for contacting us.

The game is still scheduled for release but unfortunately it is still marked as pending and our developers unfortunately haven't provided us with an estimated release date for the game on the Xbox platform.

We appreciate your patience and understanding.

Sincerely,
Atari Customer Support.

[Az]

Out browsing today I noticed most department stores always displayed these on the same shelf as the Atari Flashback consoles (and other AT Games systems) rather than inside the game cases or even in the discount bins. Maybe the MSRP combined with a 2 volume release was intentionally set up to not cramp the Flashback's glamour of 100 included games at $45 USD?

[BlastProcessing402]

Out browsing today I noticed most department stores always displayed these on the same shelf as the Atari Flashback consoles (and other AT Games systems) rather than inside the game cases or even in the discount bins.

That's where Target had them back in early novemeber during their b2g3 sale.