Now keep in mind these games aren't state-of-the-art, they're graphics are not buffed out, and the gameplay most of the time only requires the arrow keys and shift key! Yes folks, this is classic gaming at it's best! While new gamers who started out playing games like "Metal Gear Solid" will look at these games in disgust adult gamers who grew up with these game will relive their childhood memories one last time!

"The exact same games, only on a different system!"
Now you can relive those carefree days when you had a pocketful of quarters! This doesn't come with 6, but 12, 12(!) classic arcade games! See what happened in the years these games came out in the instruction booklets included in this package: Mount St. Helens eruption (uh-oh), popularity of polyester suits, the death of Elvis, Governer George Wallace assassinated and paralyzed, Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust" becomes a hit on the charts, MASH, Don McLean's "American Pie", A mass wedding for 2075 couples at the Unification Church's Sun Myung Moon, the opening of EPCOT in WDW, and a ton more!

One CD holds 6 popular classics: Centipede (Shoot up those bugs and spiders before they get you. Don't get yourself ambushed!), Missile Command (Hurry up and stop these missles from destroying the major cities!), Pong (You've got head-to-head tennis. Don't take your eye off the ball!), Super Breakout (Can you really wipe out all the bricks without losing more than 3 baseballs??), Asteroids (That's a cool game, but why isn't it in color?), and finally Tempest (Oh gawsh, that game is hard!). You need more? There's a second CD waiting for you which contains other classics, though more forgotten: Millipede, Crystal Castles, Warlords (Now THAT'S a duel!), Battlezone (Hope Saddam Hussein doesn't catch you playing that game! Reminds me of the war in the Gulf 10 years ago.), Gravitar (You'll need a special joystick for that game. Otherwise, it is nearly impossible to play, Asteroids Deluxe (Want more asteroid action? Take that!), and uhhhh, that's about it for the games.

Oh, and there are very unique and special features: video interviews, wallpaper, photos of old atari cartridges and artwork, and graphic enhancement (Just click on the arrow next to the game of your choice.) You can also customize the settings of the game: increase or decrease your number of lives, choose the game languages in English, French, Spanish, or German. Or else, if you feel like it, would you enable test mode?

Another feature is that you get just about EVERY sound effect in 44 KHZ MONO wave files. Neat, huh? You can even use them as standard computer and internet sound files! If you're tired of those standard computer sound files (like AOL for example), you can pick one of these video game sound effects of your choice. Cool!

Will Hasbro make anymore emulation from arcade games? Let's find out as time goes by.

ABSOLUTELY RECOMMENDED FOR EVERY COMPUTER, ESPECIALLY LAPTOPS!

"Celebrate Atari's 30th Anniversary with the classics."
The first thing I noticed when getting this collection is the gigantic silvery Atari Logo and the beautiful violet/blue box. When opening the box, I was happy that the whole collection is on just one CD instead two, like the Atari Arcade Classics package. A great instruction manual is included encompassing all the games,recapping the events in the year the game was released, and providing a brief description of the object of each game. A sticker is included with the Atari logo that looks great, but I would have liked it to be a little larger. This collection gets it right by teaming up with Digital Eclipse in emulating the game codes perfectly down to the last pixel It's too bad other companies don't take advantage of the talented team at Digital Eclipse (take the hint, Microsoft!) When you play the games, you'll be taken back to the time you played these games in the arcade. I wasn't much of a fan of them in the arcades, but this collection sure won me over. You don't even have to install the game on your hard drive; it will run off the CD. Customize the game to your liking (number of game lives, bonus lives, difficulty level, etc) and you can play in authentic mode or enhanced mode; enhanced mode makes for a more colorful game but I prefer the classic authentic mode. Desktop themes, screen savers and specialty fonts are the icing on the cake in this collection, though adding "Space Invaders" would have been nice (maybe they thought 13 was unlucky? Go figure!) This Anniversary Edition will make die-hard Atari fans happy and I hope they make more classic videogame collections. Bring it on, Atari!

"Blast from the Past"
I would have shelled out the change just for an Asteroids and Asteroids Deluxe combo pack. Because when I spot these coin op gems around various throwback establishments, I'm spending a heck of a lot more than 15 bucks. And that's just the tip of the iceberg in this deal!! Thanks Guys for saving me money!!