Atari Vault List Revealed

[Rowsdower70]

http://www.retroist.com/2016/03/22/100-classic-titles-atari-vault/

3d tic tac tow – adventure – air sea battle – asgo concentration
asteroids (arcade) – asteroids – asteroids deluxe – backgammon
basic math – basketball – black widow – blackjack – bowling
brain games – breakout – canyon bomber – casino
centipede (arcade) – centipede – championship soccer
checkers – chess – circus atari – code breaker
combat – combat 2 – crystal castles (arcade) – crystal castles
demons to diamonds – desert falcon -dodge-em – double dunk
fatal run – flag capture – football – golf – gravitar (arcade) – gravitar
hangman – haunted house – homerun – human cannonball
liberator – lunar lander -major havoc – mazecraze
millipede (arcade) – millipede – minigolf
missile command (arcade) – missilecommand – night driver
off the wall – outlaw – pong – quadrun – race – radar lock
red baron – return to haunted house – rs volleyball – rs-baseball
rs-basketball – rs-boxing – rs-football – rs-soccer – rs-tennis
save mary – secret quest – sentinal -sky diver – slotmachine
slotracers – space duel – spacewar – sprint – sprint master
star raiders – starship – steeplechase – stellar track
street racer – stunt cycle – sub commander – super baseball
super breakout (arcade) – super breakout – super football – surround
sword quest EW – sword quest FW – sword quest WW
tempest (arcade) – tempest – v pinball – video olympics
videocube – warlords (arcade) – warlords – yars revenge

[Rowsdower70]

So who's up for some online multiplayer maze craze!?

[RadioPoultry]

So who's up for some online multiplayer maze craze!?

 

Totally! I've only a played a couple of these against others. (Combat and Pong.)

 

I'm still concerned about lag. Some of these games operate at about 60 fps. Given the possible distances involved for multiplayer, that doesn't leave much time available for receiving input for each frame. It could be, though, that they're not going for a perfect emulation of multiplayer, and they're using some tricks to reduce the effects of latency.

 

I remember when I used to be subscribed to Gametap, I tried playing the New Zealand Story arcade game multiplayer, and it was pretty slow. My broadband wasn't as good back then, though, so who knows...

 

I'm surprised Solaris isn't on there. They've got Radar Lock, though. Maybe they're considering DLC?

[Rowsdower70]

I'd guess they'll have add-on packs if its popular enough.

Would be nice if they could get some third parties to sign off on it too!

[RickR]

I don't know...the very first game is spelled wrong.  "Tow"???  And they can't capitalize?  Are they releasing this info from a tablet? 

 

I'm keeping a healthy "wait and see" attitude on this. 

[nosweargamer]

I'm surprised Solaris isn't on there. They've got Radar Lock, though. Maybe they're considering DLC?

 

I think Doug Neubauer holds the rights (partial at least if not all) for the game, so they'd have to pay him to use it.

You basically have to view it as a third party game in this case.

 

[Rowsdower70]

http://www.retroist.com/2016/03/22/100-classic-titles-atari-vault/

 

3d tic tac tow – adventure – air sea battle – asgo concentration

asteroids (arcade) – asteroids – asteroids deluxe – backgammon

basic math – basketball – black widow – blackjack – bowling

brain games – breakout – canyon bomber – casino

centipede (arcade) – centipede – championship soccer

checkers – chess – circus atari – code breaker

combat – combat 2 – crystal castles (arcade) – crystal castles

demons to diamonds – desert falcon -dodge-em – double dunk

fatal run – flag capture – football – golf – gravitar (arcade) – gravitar

hangman – haunted house – homerun – human cannonball

liberator – lunar lander -major havoc – mazecraze

millipede (arcade) – millipede – minigolf

missile command (arcade) – missilecommand – night driver

off the wall – outlaw – pong – quadrun – race – radar lock

red baron – return to haunted house – rs volleyball – rs-baseball

rs-basketball – rs-boxing – rs-football – rs-soccer – rs-tennis

save mary – secret quest – sentinal -sky diver – slotmachine

slotracers – space duel – spacewar – sprint – sprint master

star raiders – starship – steeplechase – stellar track

street racer – stunt cycle – sub commander – super baseball

super breakout (arcade) – super breakout – super football – surround

sword quest EW – sword quest FW – sword quest WW

tempest (arcade) – tempest – v pinball – video olympics

videocube – warlords (arcade) – warlords – yars revenge

To be fair, I copied the text list from the Retroist web page lol

[Ballblaɀer]

Has anyone seen anything on a price for this yet?  Anybody want to take a guess as to what it will be?

 

I can't wait for DLC, aimbots, cloudhacking in Combat...

[Arenafoot]

Yeah...... how much is Steam? and/or the Atari Vault????

[Ballblaɀer]

Yeah...... how much is Steam? and/or the Atari Vault????

 

Steam itself is free.  If someone asked me to guess what they're gonna charge for the Atari Vault, I'd take a wild guess and say $20.  There are enough sales on Steam that buying a game at full price is something I do very, very rarely, and I see this as no exception given that I already own the vast majority of these games on original media, can run them in emulators for free just fine, etc.

[Ballblaɀer]

RAM required to run most Atari 2600 games on original hardware: 128 bytes

RAM required to run Atari Vault: 2147483648 bytes

 

The is 16.77 million times more efficient than a PC using Steam! 

[Rowsdower70]

Steam itself is free.  If someone asked me to guess what they're gonna charge for the Atari Vault, I'd take a wild guess and say $20.  There are enough sales on Steam that buying a game at full price is something I do very, very rarely, and I see this as no exception given that I already own the vast majority of these games on original media, can run them in emulators for free just fine, etc.

Yes, I'm guessing you'll get a base Vault pack with the 100 games listed for between 9.99-19.99.   Then they'll have add-on packs with more games, you can bet!

 

I also rarely pay full price for a game.   Steam sales keep me covered.

[Ballblaɀer]

Just got the notification email that it's on sale.  $19.99 as expected!

[RadioPoultry]

And it's apparently 15% off, so it's actually $16.99 right now. I think I may hold out a day or two for reviews.

[nosweargamer]

Just got the notification email that it's on sale.  $19.99 as expected!

 

I fully expect this to be on sale for $9.99 within 3 to 6 months.

[leolinden]

http://www.digitalspy.com/gaming/news/a788129/why-buy-one-atari-game-when-you-could-get-100-for-the-same-price/

[Atari Adventure Square]

This is such a Must-Buy, it's not even funny.

Although I might wait for the Steam Summer Sale to see if it drops down a bit more.

 

The multiplayer aspect of it makes it essential, as I could see myself playing a few games with fellow retrogamers from around here.

But there is some concern over controls, which can break the fun just as fast as it makes it.

 

Nonetheless, this will be an addition.

And why not, I think I have Atari games on every console and port in the castle.

 

My Steam sig should be fairly obvious.

AdventureSquare

 

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