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This is good. Just give it a chance.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a fairly good ds game. I don't quite understand why everybody hates it. Just give it a chance. Now don't take me as a "thinking every game is good" kind of kid. I've reviewed Resident Evil 4, DMC 3, Doom 3, Half-Life 2, all of the Silent Hill games. So anyways, this is a very good game. It does have it's cons though. The remixes are very disappointing, being the same exact thing as the regular versions, just new characters. All in all this is a very good ds game. It is the 3rd best DS game that I own and I own 4 DS games. It is worse than Feel the Magic and Warioware Touched, but better than the "not very good at all" Yoshi's touch and go. That is all.

Old old games.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 24
Date: December 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Man,I got this game for Christmas and the games are so boring.And the games are so old.

Old old games.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 27
Date: December 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Man,I got this game for Christmas and the games are so boring.

The Past Will Have to Wait Some More

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: November 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I just bought this and though some of the games are very true to form like Asteroids, Pong, Break-Out, and Lunar Landing you go away with the feeling of how basic our games were in the 1980's, tho that never stopped me from stuffing quarters into them. Of course many of our old games were a challenge back then but we've really come a long way. My favorite was always Missile Command which was the reason I picked this up. Unfortunately, I was disappointed with this incarnation of the arcade legend. With the original game, and to a lesser degree even the original Game Boy Missile Command, you could control which base to fire your missiles. Not so here and you can't control which base launches your missiles. It's a free-for-all which prevents the standard strategy of using a spread of missiles using the base the farthest from your cursor (which starts at the opposite end of the side you choose, this way you can let loose an even spread of missiles workng your way back to the firing base). The graphics are great but why the heck couldn't the manufacturer have kept with the basic defensive concept of the game?

If you stunk at games like Tempest and Lunar Landing then guess what...not much will have changed. I still can't land that damn lander in Lunar Landing and still not sure what is going on with Tempest! Asteroids is very good but I was never a big fan of it during its heyday, preferring Pac-Man, Gorf, Missile Command, and Space Invaders Deluxe.

So, this was a nice blast from the past, but I'll wait for the Namco Museum release and keep my fingers crossed that it has a higher replay value.

I bought the DS to keep up with legacy games like Zelda, Metroid, and FPS' like MOH and COD--all of which I'm still waiting to be released. I like the concept of the DS, but for the most part the time I find for portable gaming (I travel a lot on business) is spent on my PSP.

get's old after a while

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

ok this compilation is ok. i'll admit that i'm a sucker for classics and that's why i got this. the first few days with this were really fun just expieriencing the classics. the next couple weeks i didn't play this that much... and now well a couple months after i bought it i barely play it. simply because i don't think that these games are as addicting now as they were then. games like castle and breakout are fun but are you really gonna sit down and play this for ages? in addition the games in super mario ds are more engaging and varied so i play those more often. this is fun but i reccomend buying it onsale because it's simply not worth $30. i'd pay $15 for it but not $30...

Really poor classic versions

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you want to play the classic version, get the GBA Atari collection instead. NDS Retro Atari Classics doesn't even try to be authentic. The classic modes for the included games appear to be an afterthough.

The new versions are mostly unplayable.

Good deal to remember the good times

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Is a very good option to play the original ATARI games, in a portable console. To be honest, i continously grab my daoughter console and play with these ATARI Games.

brings back good ole memories

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game brings back all the good ole memories I had as a kid playing my pong!!

Fair

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I wouldn't say this is the worst game ever. But out of my personal experience I found only 1 game was impossible to control. Also the worst part is that you and a friend need retro atari classics game card to play something like pong.
But on the good side many of the games such as asteroids and missle command were much easier to controll than using the control pad to play.

I would recommend this game to those who love boosting their high scores and to those who miss the days of the simple games of the 80's. It will have good replay value for those.

If your not that type of gamer stay away.

Thanks for reading :)

Pretty Good!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Allright folks,I was hoping they would make a classic series like this. I wish they did it with Namco instead. Here it is in order

Asteroids 4/5
This game is great! But what's up with the touch screen on it? I like this game because of the gameplay. I don't know if I'm seeing things,but the graphics are not good in this. I wish they would just copy off the original,but thier not allowed unforntuntley.

Asteroids Remix 4/5
Why did they make this?! It's crazy! There was no reason to make
another copy of Asteroids. It's just better graphics,and that's it!

Breakout 5/5
I love this game! It works great with your finger and stylus. There's a ball and you have to get all of the bricks to dissapear. It's very challenging and fun!

Breakout Remix 5/5
Hey,this is different!!! Cool! There's a picture of these monster guys and when you hit a block,a bunny comes out of a hat. It's really cool!

Centipede 4/5
I was really disapointed in this game. The touch screen dos'nt work well on this. The game is still fun though.

Centipede Remix 4.5/5
Once again,it's just a copy with different graphics. But I think the control works better in this version

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