Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 2

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Arcade's Greatest Hits:
The Atari Collection 2
Arcade's Greatest Hits The Atari Collection 2 cover.jpg
European PlayStation box art
Developer Digital Eclipse
Publishers
SeriesArcade's Greatest Hits
Platforms PlayStation, Windows
Release
  • NA: April 1, 1998 [1]
  • EU: April 17, 1998
Genre Various
Modes Single-player, multiplayer

Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 2 is a 1998 video game compilation of six arcade games for the PlayStation and Microsoft Windows. [2] [3] Crystal Castles and Millipede were licensed from Atari Corporation while the others were owned by the Midway-owned Atari Games. The compilation contains artwork and info on each game, and all games are presented in their original format.

Contents

The PlayStation version is only compatible with the original PlayStation, as it has compatibility issues with all models of the PlayStation 2.[ citation needed ]

Games included

The collection of games differs slightly between the PlayStation and Windows versions. [4]

  1. 1 2 Exclusive to Windows version
  2. 1 2 Exclusive to PlayStation version

Reception

Four reviewers for Electronic Gaming Monthly praised the collection's choice of games, regarding all of them as recognizable classics, and applauded the developer, Digital Eclipse, for not only perfectly converting the games to the PlayStation, but including support for every PlayStation peripheral that the games could possibly benefit from. They warned that the games had not aged well enough that players who had not played them when they were first released would be likely to enjoy them, additionally criticized that Marble Madness is not as fun without a trackball and Paperboy is not as fun without the handlebars, and were even split on whether the collection was worth picking up. [6] Superjuegos did not agree that the conversions are perfect, remarking that the screen mode used makes Paperboy appear blurry and the frame rate of RoadBlasters is lower than the arcade version. However, they considered these imperfections minor against the hours of fun gameplay offered by the collection, especially Gauntlet. [7] Jeff Gerstmann, writing in GameSpot , echoed the criticisms about the screen blurring and the weakness of Marble Madness and Paperboy without their signature arcade controls, but with greater emphasis, and concluded that the conversions were so lacking that players would be better off searching for the original arcade versions of the games. [7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Sony PlayStation Available Software sorted by Release Date @ www.vidgames.com". PlayStation Galleria. Archived from the original on June 11, 1998. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
  2. ↑ "Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 2 for Windows (1999)".
  3. ↑ "PlayStation Previews: Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 2". Electronic Gaming Monthly . No. 103. Ziff Davis. February 1998. p. 72.
  4. ↑ "Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 2 for Windows (1999)".
  5. 1 2 3 McCauley, Dennis (December 31, 1998). "Some classic games reappear, ready for the newest machines". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Archived from the original on September 2, 1999. Retrieved February 4, 2024.
  6. 1 2 "Review Crew: AGH: Atari Collection 2". Electronic Gaming Monthly . No. 107. Ziff Davis. June 1998. p. 111.
  7. 1 2 3 Gerstmann, Jeff (1998). "Midway Presents Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 2 Review". GameSpot . Retrieved 7 November 2025. Article date is mislabeled as April 28, 2000.
  8. ↑ Official PlayStation Magazine, Future Publishing issue 36, September 1998
  9. ↑ "Los 80' son nuestros". Superjuegos. No. 77. September 1998. pp. 108–109. Retrieved 7 November 2025.
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