Atari's Greatest Hits Reviews – Page 2
2/5 rating based on 154 reviews. Read all reviews for Atari's Greatest Hits for iPhone.
Atari's Greatest Hits is free iOS app published by Atari, Interactive
A Time Capsule
EmilyApricot
I am trying to play all the games ! So far, I have played half the arcade and half the sports titles. This app hasn't received a major update in over five years. That said, the original porting job and game compilation has been superbly done since the beginning. Each game is a small download 1-3 MB, you don't have to download them all at once, and being that Atari servers are probably hosting these downloads, it is impressive after all these years. Each game has a full original paper scan manual, which is historically informational, and helps a great deal to explain how to play tricky games. As an 80s kid, let me tell you all these games weren't easy to figure out. Most of my games were bought or traded from friends, so I didn't get the manual, and didn't even have any clue what the difficulty or game select options did. Here, we can read the manual, and Atari even took the trouble to label onscreen what each game mode entails. There are a ton of familiar arcade and 2600 games like Centipede, Asteroids, Tempest, and adventure here including a lot of lesser titles like Mini Golf and Pong Sports, while not blockbusters, are fun and show what early Atari was innovating during a time that video gaming was a blank slate. A lot of gamers have begged for MFi controller support to help players experience that original controller feeling, but it must involve some tricky coding they are not willing to put in. I would like to see a few small updates. There are a few games that crash on loading including Championship Soccer Realsports Boxing, RS Tennis, and Centipede for 2600. Centipede for Arcade works fine, though. This is a mere annoyance for a full collection owner like me, but could be a serious flaw for people who have purchased those individual games. I would like to see saving and pausing better integrated. There is a functional emulator pause button, but it does not work while accessing the console switches. I have played a game like Pong and had the opponent score a ton of points while I am trying to change the difficulty. Also, games like Adventure would certainly benefit from being able to save even after the app is closed. Also, the controls are surprisingly well adapted, offering digital and analog and offering portrait and landscape, and stationary and drag anywhere d-pad. I would just like to see my controller preferences be the same for every new game I play. It does remember for games you have played, but I am planning on playing all 100, so I will be setting up my controls 100 times, even on the 2600 where most games control the same. Also, it helps that recently played games get listed, but organizing a list of favorites would help. As is, you can filter by system and genre, which does help. Overall, this is a collector's dream. It would just be nice to feel like it will stay updated, and keep working throughout the generations.
Perfect
gumkojima
This app is complete. Love it. Don’t have any other games on my phone. Get the retro brown (references the wood grain?), but would love it if you’d update the icon to red/white as it is currently for the company.
iPhone X support please!
Jason R. Memphis
Love this app but needs to be updated to support the iPhone X
It’s great ... perfect translation
Greginfla
Works great on iPhone 7. Will try later on iPad. I wish they would love us to add more custom settings. for example missile command, unlimited missiles? Cause I still can’t hit those in coming no matter how many missiles I send. Atari thank you so much for continuing support! The whole experience is very authentic. The sounds, the visuals, so much fun; back in the simpler days; 8bit programming.
Not free at all just free to download
Waterpipe78
Well if your down to be tricked into a app that seams free at first but is completely ripping you off
Amazing game but to expensive
Lukexander
It has amazing games and amazing controls but it costs to much to play! You should make it so all games are free.
COOL GAME, BUT PLS FIX!!!
Bluetrixon
Look it’s a cool game and all, but I’ve bought some of the game packs and half the games don’t work! I’ve tried everything! I restarted My iPad and deleted it! Some of the games the games that make that make the iPad crash are : Haunted House, Return To Haunted House, RealSports Tennis, and RealSports Boxing. But the games that don’t work are only some of the 2600 games that we pay for! I mostly only want the 2600 games! But it’s a great game for retro gaming. But please fix this!
Needs mfi controller support.
macike
Seriously why does this not have controller support. Huge omission