And, again, its rendering couldn't be more exact.
Sure, it's still a nice little bit of Cold War fun defending your military bases from incoming missiles and bombs. Where the lack of a trackball matters even more is in Missile Command. My one beef: Playing it on your mouse and keyboard, | rather than on the arcade game's rolling trackball controller, will snap you out of your stroll down memory lane.
And Centipede's psychedelically colored mushroom screen is faithfully captured here. An endless onslaught of creepy crawlers, it was unlike any other game, visually speaking, when it came out in 1982. Even though I grew up with one finger on the hyperspace button, trying to get my 'Stroids chops back was a blast - literally.Ĭentipede is another game that still stands up. But just because Asteroids is simple doesn't mean it isn't a riveting game. The bullets still emit a spartan "ping" sound, and the occasional enemy spaceship looks like something out of Lost in Space. Take Asteroids: The spaceship shoot-out against a shower of menacing boulders is still primitive-looking - white-outline rocks screaming across a black background, while a pulse thumps in your ear. Instead, the company has faithfully duplicated the games - Asteroids, Missile Command, Tempest, Centipede, and Battlezone - in all of their lo-fi, stripped-down, 2-D splendor. Microsoft could've easily souped up these titles for a new generation. That's why it's such a joy to play Microsoft Arcade, a collection of five of Atari's post-Pong arcade classics from the late '70s and early '80s - long before Sega or Nintendo became the boss of the beach. Looking back, I was lucky to have been there at the dawn of the video-game era - when Berzerk, Galaxian, and others hit the market. His kingdom was a dilapidated bowling alley outside Boston called the Bowl-A-Way, where my friends and I watched in awe as he blasted meaty space rocks into rubble, playing for hours on a single quarter. When I was a kid, my hero was a high school burnout in a Black Sabbath T-shirt who ruled at Asteroids. It was one of the first such compilations to appear on the market.įorget Reggie Jackson or Larry Bird. Microsoft Arcade includes Windows versions of five Atari arcade games from the early '80s: Centipede, Asteroids, Missile Command, Tempest and Battlezone.
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