![]() ![]() ![]() The first page offers nine arcade titles. Both as entertainment and also as a lesson in generation one gaming.įiring the game up, you are presented with four pages of games. But dipping in an out of them is all about having a few minutes of fun, maybe nabbing yourself a trophy and then moving on and, in that context at least, Atari Flashback Classics works. The majority of them are horribly dated, and not in a charming retro kind of way. As I said, it’s not about the individual games. However, when you put the games in a pack of fifty as this compilation does, the compilation is less about the individual titles and more of a museum piece and this is a good thing. ![]() Indeed, as a UK-gamer, you can’t help but feel sorry for the Americans who had Atari as their main provider of gaming content when we had things like the ZX Spectrum. The horrible pricing model of Games Room on Xbox Live Arcade ruined what was a great idea where you could put together your own virtual arcade and highlighted that, on an individual level, a lot of these old Atari games are terrible. This isn’t the first time that Atari have compiled a selection of their old arcade and console titles by any means and they’ve not always nailed it. When reviewing a compilation like Atari Flashback Classics, you don’t base your score on the games included as such but rather how the compilation treats them. Januin PS4 tagged arcade / atari / compilation / flashback / retro by Richie ![]()
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