Atari Greatest Hits

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::summary Video game compilations ::

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Field	Value
title	Atari Greatest Hits: Volume 1
image	Atari's Greatest Hits Volume 1.png
caption	North American Nintendo DS box art
developer	Code Mystics
publisher	Atari Interactive
platform	Nintendo DS, iOS
released
genre	Various
modes	Single-player, multiplayer
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| title = Atari Greatest Hits: Volume 1 | image = Atari's Greatest Hits Volume 1.png | caption = North American Nintendo DS box art | developer = Code Mystics | publisher = Atari Interactive | platform = Nintendo DS, iOS | released = | genre = Various | modes = Single-player, multiplayer |title = Atari Greatest Hits: Volume 2 |image = |developer = Code Mystics |publisher = Atari Interactive |platform = Nintendo DS |released = |genre = Various |modes = Single-player, multiplayer

Atari Greatest Hits is a series of video game compilations developed by Code Mystics and published by Atari Interactive for the Nintendo DS and iOS. Consisting of arcade and Atari 2600 games from Atari, it was released into two volumes released in 2010 and 2011 respectively, while the app was released as a free-to-play model, and allowed for purchase of the extra games. The games include bonus features such as manuals, credits and interviews with Atari founder Nolan Bushnell.

Releases in the series have received positive reviews from IGN and Eurogamer while receiving more negative reviews from Nintendo Power and Nintendo Gamer.

Content

Both of the Nintendo DS releases contain an art gallery of pictures from their playable arcade games, Atari 2600 manuals from their playable arcade games and credits that detail the people who helped make them. Both volumes contain two other extras. While Volume 1 has a trivia game that gives players 20 randomly selected questions about Atari and Army Battlezone, a version of Battlezone commissioned by the US Army for Atari to train the gunners of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, Volume 2 has eight interviews from Nolan Bushnell, including video and audio and an Atari 400 Basic engine.

Atari's Greatest Hits was released as an app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch in April 2011. The app was free but only included Missile Command. The rest of the games could be purchased as downloadable content in packs of four, or as the entire collection.

List of games

The following games are included in Atari Greatest Hits: Volume 1. ::data[format=table title="{{sronly|Games in the collection}}"]

Title	Arcade	2600	3D Tic-Tac-Toe	Adventure	Air-Sea Battle	Asteroids	Asteroids	Atari Video Cube	Basketball	Battlezone	The Bradley Trainer	Bowling	Centipede	Championship Soccer	Dodge 'Em	Flag Capture	Football	Fun with Numbers	Gravitar	Hangman	Haunted House	Home Run	Human Cannonball	Lunar Lander	Math Gran Prix	Miniature Golf	Missile Command	Outlaw	Pong	RealSports Baseball	RealSports Boxing	RealSports Football	RealSports Tennis	RealSports Volleyball	Sky Diver	Slot Machine	Slot Racers	Space Duel	Sprint Master	Star Ship	Stellar Track	Submarine Commander	Surround	Swordquest Earthworld	Swordquest Fireworld	Swordquest Waterworld	Tempest	Video Checkers
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The following games are included in Atari Greatest Hits: Volume 2. ::data[format=table title="{{sronly|Games in the collection}}"]

Title	Arcade	2600	Note	Asteroids Deluxe	Backgammon	Black Widow	BASIC Programming	Blackjack	Brain Games	Breakout	Canyon Bomber	Casino	Circus Atari	Codebreaker	Combat	Combat Two	Crystal Castles	Demons to Diamonds	Desert Falcon	Double Dunk	Fatal Run	Golf	Liberator	Major Havoc	Maze Craze	Millipede	Night Driver	Off-the-Wall	Quadrun	Radar Lock	RealSports Basketball	RealSports Soccer	Red Baron	Return to Haunted House	Secret Quest	Sentinel	Space War	Star Raiders	Steeplechase	Street Racer	Super Baseball	Super Breakout	Super Football	Video Chess	Video Olympics	Video Pinball	Warlords	Yars' Revenge
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Reception

Volume 1

Writing for IGN, Craig Harris rated Atari Greatest Hits Volume 1 6 out of 10, and said that the 30 dollar price was too high. Harris noticed that the Nintendo DS's small screen can not properly display games with vector graphics, like Gravitar, Lunar Lander, and Asteroids, but he praised the title's "excellent multiplayer support" and "spot-on emulations". Alex Morgen at GamingBits.com gave it 3.5 of 5 stars in a generally positive review. Harris and Morgen both said that many of the included titles would not hold gamers' attention for very long. Nintendo Power rated it 5 out of 10, while Nintendo Gamer gave it 22 out of 100.

iOS

Eurogamer gave the app a seven out of ten rating, finding it superior to Microsoft's similarly themed Game Room, and while finding many Atari 2600 games to be dated and that it lacked many games made under the Atari Games company.

Notes

References

References

1. Humphries, Matthew. (2010-11-10). "Review: Atari Greatest Hits Volume 1 for Nintendo DS". [[Geek.com]].
2. "Atari's Greatest Hits". Code Mystics.
3. "Atari Greatest Hits Volume 2". Code Mystics.
4. Harris, Craig. (2010-11-08). "Atari Greatest Hits Volume 1 Review - IGN". [[IGN]].
5. Morgen, Alex. (2010-11-10). "Atari Greatest Hits: Volume 1 review". GamingBits.com.
6. "Atari Greatest Hits Volume 1 for DS - GameRankings". [[GameRankings]].
7. Reed, Kristan. (April 25, 2011). "Mobile Games Roundup". [[Eurogamer]].

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