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RE: Atari 50: The 50 year anniversary compilation game that honestly, is better left in your memory
The few games that I really remember are Space Invaders, Q-Bert and pac man. And Frogger although I could easily be mixing up consoles here.
I’m currently going through a phase of picking up “old” consoles and am wondering how far back into the archives I go. Xbox 360’s are ridiculously cheap (£40 with 11 games) and I also picked up a Dreamcast and am quite enjoying these generations of consoles. Some of the games feel pricey but at £15-£20 a pop, they’re still a lot cheaper than today’s alternatives!
also you wont see any of the games you remember on the Atari collection other than space invaders because although Atari did have ports of these games, they didn't actually make them. Q-bert rights are now owned by Sony and PacMan was always owned by Bandai-Namco. Frogger was made by Konami and well, they've done alright over the years now haven't they?
I feel as though the Dreamcast was a lost opportunity on the part of Sega. It was a more advanced machine than the PS2 but the fools over at Sega didn't include DVD playing capabilities for god only knows what stupid ass reason. So why would anyone buy a Dreamcast for $200 (or whatever it cost) when they could get a PS2 for the same price and would also have a DVD player? Dreamcast was amazing for its time and had so much potential but this was just one of the many many many many bad management decision that Sega had been making since Genesis days and unfortunately for them, they were eliminated badly from the market because of that machine.
I loved it, but honestly I think I only knew like one other person that even had one. It didn't help that their games were exceptionally easy to rip as well but I suppose everyone was going through that at that time.