@tanookisuit: Also, if you hold out frogs or mushrooms like you're about to throw them and stand next to a fire, you can roast them without throwing them. This is the only way to cook mushrooms with offensive effects, and is much easier and more efficient than trying to throw stuff at fires. Just watch for the button prompt at the bottom of the screen to change.
You can also cook stuff with the Fireworks gun, and there's a certain type of beast coming up where this knowledge will really come in handy.
Did the developer up the "bloom" around the vector lines in "Asteroids," etc.? They seem to be glowing much more than I remember.
Yes they did, and like their fake scanlines, it's a bit much compared to what actual screens would have displayed. There is a "vector glow" setting in the options, and the games look sharper with it turned off.
Whenever they do these re-releases I always scratch my head in disbelief when I see stuff NOBODY would ever want to play like Backgammon or Blackjack. Like who would WANT to play the 2800 version of Backgammon? There's probably a gazillion free ways of doing it wayyy better.
I don't know. It looks bad on the whole package.
I feel like some collections do it better than others. As far as padding out the number of games by loading in crap, this collection is one of the worst offenders I've ever seen. And I foolishly bought both volumes on day one.
I kinda knew what i was getting into and wanted a copy of breakout and adventure and knew im never gonna play "basketball"
I feel bad for someone who just sees FIFTY GAMES! though
the collection software itself is good though. the clarity is the best ive seen.
Oh, to be sure, I'm super glad to have access to the games on here that are worth revisiting, so no regrets... but I do feel a bit gouged.
It's a pity this is such a minimalist, no-frills package compared to say, Rare Replay. It's just a random grab-bag of games. These collections really benefit from those little extras.
Being from the UK this is like that package was for the Americans in that a lot of the console stuff is completely unfamiliar to me in the same way Rare's computer games (many of which were influential classics here) were to them. Without that nostalgic context, they don't stand up of course
Even here in the Americas (I'm Canadian), very few of the games on these two collections have all that much nostalgia or historical context behind them.
As for the ones that do, I obviously grew up with them, so I'm not sure how to communicate that context to someone who didn't, but the most successful Atari games were very simple, intuitive, and fun to play in short bursts.
Whenever they do these re-releases I always scratch my head in disbelief when I see stuff NOBODY would ever want to play like Backgammon or Blackjack. Like who would WANT to play the 2800 version of Backgammon? There's probably a gazillion free ways of doing it wayyy better.
I don't know. It looks bad on the whole package.
I feel like some collections do it better than others. As far as padding out the number of games by loading in crap, this collection is one of the worst offenders I've ever seen. And I foolishly bought both volumes on day one.
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