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Enhanced Asteroids lets you to play with the original paper background - yeah, you heard that right.

#WHO SHOT JOHNNY ROCK ARCADE UPDATE#

Centipede, Missile Command, Pong and Super Breakout get a slight graphic update in enhanced mode, but Asteroids and Tempest offer you a pot of gold. You can tweak everything from the AI to the score needed for extra lives, as well as a pivotal option that allows you to play an enhanced version of all the games, which changes depending on what you're playing. So they weren't perfect, but they were the best of their time, and besides, it brings me to the second addition to the games: customization. Even the AI is identical, which means that playing original Pong is a laughable experience, but so nostalgic that you won't mind a computer-opponent that plays like he's been drinking from his own lithium battery supply. The flat buzzes and fantastic fuzzes are all there, as well as the same scroll rates, animations. When you play Missile Command, you'll see, hear and feel it exactly as you did in the arcade. The thing that separates this title from the compilation bunch is the meticulous attention to detail that makes the games as similar to the originals as possible. In fact, the game goes so far as to give you the option of simulating vector flare in the vector games as well, something that made me actually pass out, then get back up, then pass out again. The six games covered in the Arcade comp are Asteroids, Tempest, Pong, Super Breakout, Missile Command, and Centipede, and each of them play nearly identical to the original. Though there are only six games included in this compilation, there's so much extra love packed into the title that you won't feel like you're missing a thing (and in case you are, there's the inevitable Atari Arcade Hits Volume 2 coming your way). The developers have made a name for themselves translating classic arcade hits to the Game Boy as well as console systems, and once again they've come through for we the geeks on the PC.

The best thing about the Digital Eclipse kids is that they don't mess around. Did modern-day heathens taint the source material, adding and tweaking what made the originals so fantastic? In a word, nuh-uh.*

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I couldn't wait to play some perfect classics on my system, since previous attempts to capture the feel of the original titles had that 'not quite right' feel about them (Microsoft's Arcade series in particular), but I was a bit apprehensive. You can imagine the scene, then when Atari Arcade Classics came into work - it was my religious duty to do some worship, and pay homage to our forefathers and saviors. Many critics have tried to write off the importance of video games since their inception, but I truly believe that they changed the landscape of the 80s as surely as the Internet changed the 90s, and that their sovereign reign has just started to begin. They are our salvation, our church of geekiness, and the best thing ever.

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