Flojomojo Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Food Fight I, Robot Licensed games like Star Wars These would make me happy to see in a commercial release. Man do I love I, Robot. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tripletopper Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Does anyone havea problem with the "paddle games" on the Xbox One Atari compilations? I tried Warlords and Breakout, and to get he genuine experience, and the ability to "dial any posiition" I selected absolute posiitioning. Otherwise it feels like a "joystick replacement" version of it. This setup would make the Atari 5200 controllers a welcome edition. Because when you try to finely dial a position, you have to actively HOLD it in postion, instead of a 2600 paddle or 5200 stick of moving to the postition and relaxing. You're actually using muscles to fight centering resistance. That's why self centering would be a bad thing in most analog 5200 games, even though it would come in handy in digital 5200 games. I tried purchasing something that lets you plug in Atari 2600 paddles. Apparently the Xbox One doesn't support it. Too many of the games are too controller-specific, whether it be paddles, spinners, trackballs, flight yolks, or light guns. Some of these games are unplayable with a standard controller, especially paddle games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
negative1 Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Quick question about Flashback volume 3 on the xbox one, are there any global leaderboards for the arcade games. I was looking forward to playing them. later -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OscarGungan Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 On the first two releases on the PS4 I found the touchpad was a reasonable substitute to not having the paddle controls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 WOW volume 3 is literally a museum piece -- there are ancient arcade games on here from the 1970s that I've never seen collected before. There are the same Mattel games we have seen on the plug and play collections, and --a first I believe-- are some 5200/8-bit games. For me, the highlights are the "5200" (they're all labeled that way even if they're computer ports) of the 2600/arcade games I know so well -- Super Breakout, Asteroids, Centipede, Millipede, Missile Command. They remind me how just how transitional a system the 5200 was, and give me a newfound appreciation for volumes 1 and 2. Controls for anything that needed more than a stick and a button or two are buried in menus. There's a reason most of this stuff hasn't appeared before or elsewhere. It's mostly inaccessible, ugly, and aged. That's not a problem for me because I'm curious about this stuff, but as you might expect, this one won't be well received by places like Metacritic, and is for the colllectors and historians only. Recommended for "people like us" but the normies will want to stay far far away. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laner Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 I went to buy it last night, and the store says "currently not available." ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laner Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 I went to buy it last night, and the store says "currently not available." ??? ... And now it's completely gone from the Xbox store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Havoc 2049 Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 Flojo, how did you buy this? Or are you trolling us? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/atari-flashback-classics-vol-3/bqzxbczxhhmp?ocid=periscope&activetab=pivot%3aoverviewtab Found it in the store online, but when I tried to search from the Xbox One itself it didn't pull up anything except for Vol 1 and 2. Weird. I went to buy it last night, and the store says "currently not available." ??? ... And now it's completely gone from the Xbox store. Flojo, how did you buy this? Or are you trolling us? I assure you that if I were trolling you, you'd know it. I bought it from the link Moycon provided on Thursday, and posted my impressions about it soon after trying it out on Saturday. The link might not be searchable, but it's clickable and says "not available." I quoted it above. Something similar happened with Tempest 4000 on the Playstation 4 -- it was (accidentally?) put up for sale for a brief moment, then taken down again. The physical shipment was delayed, and comments on the Llamasoft discussion board led me to believe it was because of certifications or localization work on the Xbone version. I am guessing they are trying to line up a simultaneous release for the PS4, Xbone, and Switch versions, but I don't know. I can try to answer questions about the Xbone version but as you saw from my comments, waiting for a wide release of this one won't hurt much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mckafka99 Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 After seeing the initial post that it was available, I logged into my XBox account on my computer and bought it. See below: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bugcatcher88 Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 (edited) Wal-Mart is listing the Nintendo Switch version at $40 with a November 6th release date. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Atari-Flashback-Classics-AtGames-Nintendo-Switch-742725911819/334027687 Box art: Edited October 17, 2018 by bugcatcher88 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Wal-Mart is listing the Nintendo Switch version at $40 with a November 6th release date. 150 games? I'm guessing that's all 3 volumes rolled into one package. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 150 games? I'm guessing that's all 3 volumes rolled into one package. Yup. You can tell by the graphics chosen for the cover, too -- it's a mashup of what has come before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybercylon Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Wonder if it will be all three volumes on a card or one or two on the card and one or more as a digital download... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mulletino Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 On the first two releases on the PS4 I found the touchpad was a reasonable substitute to not having the paddle controls. and that's why I regret not waiting and getting the Xbox versions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 and that's why I regret not waiting and getting the Xbox versions. You're allowed to buy it again. PSN has a lot of sales, it will be 8 or 10 bucks before long -- just like it has in the past. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dj_convoy Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Wonder if it will be all three volumes on a card or one or two on the card and one or more as a digital download... Even with 150 games, they are all tiny. Surely they would all be on the card, right? Then again, they made you download stuff with the Mega Man collection... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atariboy Posted October 17, 2018 Author Share Posted October 17, 2018 (edited) PS4 file size for the first two were under 400 MB. With economies from integration, under 1 gig seems legitimately possible for a combined collection. With the smallest (cheapest) cartridge being the 1 GB size, it's hopefully safe from a day 1 patch. Luckily there's not a 512 MB option... Edited October 17, 2018 by Atariboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 PS4 file size for the first two were under 400 MB. With economies from integration, under 1 gig seems legitimately possible for a combined collection. With the smallest (cheapest) cartridge being the 1 GB size, it's hopefully safe from a day 1 patch. Luckily there's not a 512 MB option... which is still a mind-bogglingly large cartridge capacity by 1970s/1980s/1990s standards ... especially for a collection of games that are under 8kb in capacity each Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dj_convoy Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 So many megabits, and still a crummy game... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Too subtle? 4096 megabit = 512MB Heavy Nova was an 8 megabit game = 1MB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dj_convoy Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 I'm aware. I own Heavy Nova in it's 8 Meg "glory." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 I'm aware. I own Heavy Nova in it's 8 Meg "crummy glory." *fixed!* 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mockduck Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 Wal-Mart is listing the Nintendo Switch version at $40 with a November 6th release date. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Atari-Flashback-Classics-AtGames-Nintendo-Switch-742725911819/334027687 Box art: 6d4e0481-5b97-4c32-9ebc-4be929463d34_1.adc0cf682f1c45f25d493dda02087b0a.png Man, this seems killer! Perfect for the Switch. Ideally it will have ad-hoc multiplayer between two nearby Switches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
negative1 Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 played all the single player games. the sounds on the 5200 arcade ports, missile command, centipede, and millipede sound arcade perfect but the games aren't. why didn't missile command have 3 bases. the framerate for the millipede is too slow, but the rest of the characters are fine. the centipede game plays decently. the arcade games are all hit and miss, and have leaderboards. the game that makes the collection is : maze invaders 1981 - prototype WHY WASNT THIS GAME RELEASED. i love this game, and will buy it just for this game, it is amazing (no pun intended). i can't get enough of this game. later -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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