Atari Vault, a 100 classic game collection heading to SteamOS & Linux

I hope ET is in this pack ;P

I do wonder what games are in this pack, and I'm quite upset we don't see more of these anymore, back in the PS2 days we had things like "Sonic gems collection" which put 13-ish sonic games on one disc for a cheap price, where nowadays you get them all separately which costs more if you want them all.

I do wonder what games are going to be in this pack, Asteroids and centipedes are in there which is great, but what else? and will they be upgraded in any way? will they have interesting art to the side of them because they don’t fit today’s screen sizes? etc

I hope ET is in this pack ;P

Was about to comment the exact same thing haha. That and the terrible PacMan port :D

Here's a list of games included in Atari 2600 emulation system sold on Amazon, I'd guess the list may be pretty much the same:

3D Tic-Tac-Toe
Adventure
Adventure II
Air Raiders
Air·Sea Battle
Aquaventure
Armor Ambush
Asteroids
Astroblast
Atari Climber
Backgammon
Basketball
Black Jack
Bowling
Breakout
Canyon Bomber
Centipede
Championship Soccer
Chase It
Circus Atari
Combat
Combat Two
Crystal Castles
Dark Cavern
Demons to Diamonds
Desert Falcon
Dodge 'Em
Double Dunk
Escape It
Fatal Run
Flag Capture
Football
Frog Pond
Frogs And Flies
Front Line
Fun with Numbers
Golf
Gravitar
Hangman
Haunted House
Home Run
Human Cannonball
Indy 500
International Soccer
Jungle Hunt
Maze Craze
MotoRodeo
Miniature Golf
Miss It
Missile Command
Millipede
Night Driver
Off-the-Wall
Outlaw
Polaris
Pong (Video Olympics)
Radar Lock
Realsports Baseball
Realsports Basketball
Realsports Soccer
Realsports Volleyball
Return to Haunted House
Saboteur
Save Mary
Sea Battle
Secret Quest
Shield Shifter
Sky Diver
Slot Machine
Slot Racers
Solaris
Space Attack
Space Invaders
Space War
Sprintmaster
Star Ship
Star Strike
Steeplechase
Stellar Track
Street Racer
Strip Off
Submarine Commander
Super Baseball
Super Breakout
Super Challenge Baseball
Super Challenge Football
Super Football
Surround
Sword Fight
Swordquest Earthworld
Swordquest Fireworld
Swordquest Waterworld
Tempest
Video Checkers
Video Chess
Video Pinball
Wizard
Warlords
Yars' Return
Yars' Revenge

Source: http://www.amazon.com/forum/-/Tx2XWVF0N9XFO5X/ref=ask_dp_dpmw_al_hza?asin=B017L5VCCQ


Last edited by pb on 25 January 2016 at 1:06 am UTC

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not really into those games, but just reading "right now we're targeting a release for Windows PC, and SteamOS, with Mac support coming later." made me smile. :)

This is nice I guess, but I don't trust this version of Atari after their mishandling of the D&D license and Alone in the Dark. I'm on the wait and see approach.

I actually really liked E.T.... Once you understood how to actually play, it wasn't bad. I'm not sure what people were expecting for an Atari game at the time... Cinematics and skill trees?

I'm not gonna hold my breath, but it'd be nice to see Gauntlet Legends... Yeah it's a much, much later game - but it was sooo addictive when it was at the arcades!

If this is going to add a whopping 100+ games to my Steam collection though, I will pick it up irrespective...


Last edited by Cyba.Cowboy on 25 January 2016 at 10:30 am UTC

If this is going to add a whopping 100+ games to my Steam collection though, I will pick it up irrespective...

I doubt it will. More likely it'll be a single shared Steam launcher and game library entry for the "vault". All the various articles are talking about a single package.

Personally I'm not going to touch this one. I did enjoy (some of) these classics back in the day, but the simplistic arcade gameplay just isn't my idea of fun anymore.

If it's priced fairly I will definitely check this out for playing with my kids.

Nice, but not really my thing anymore.

I had a period sometime around Y2K that lasted for about a year. During that time I was gripped by "emulation-mania" (lol) and I went from MAME with all it ´s old arcade titles to "UAE" with all the old Amiga titles and other emulators as well, SNES, Gameboy, Sega etc. etc. etc.

However, I eventually came to grips with the fact that I had very little interest in actually *playing* any of these oldies. I had more than enough contemporary games to keep me occupied. Nope, it was just the challenge of amassing a library of old and often obscure games that was the entertainment. Like a coin or stamp collection really.

So...end of story. I think I may still have a box of old cd:s filled with emulators and old games up in the attic somewhere.


Last edited by Feist on 25 January 2016 at 7:15 pm UTC

Very cool, I wonder how much harder it is for them to add Mac support though, since it's coming later.

I'm not gonna turn on the hype machine but....


For the right price I could be swayed into picking up a collection like this for my Big Picture.

Ha, I've been getting back to my old Atari's lately (namely the ST line of computers, as I was finally able to get a Falcon030) and this kind of mixes in with my thoughts about why Atari went wrong... mainly that their glory days really were the 2600, and after that I think they didn't understand how to get developers to create software for their other platforms, that's certainly what killed off the 8-bits, the STs and the Jaguar.

It'd be a shame for a package of 100 Atari games on Steam to only have 2600 games though.

On another note, they made a Combat 2 and Adventure 2?

Personally I'm not going to touch this one. I did enjoy (some of) these classics back in the day, but the simplistic arcade gameplay just isn't my idea of fun anymore.

The best thing you can do to most legendary classic games is keeping them in sweet memory,
the worst thing is to actually play them again.

One of the very few exceptions for me was Metal Gear I & II on MSX.

Oh damn, there are a few childhood games in that bundle.... i doubt I'll be able to resist that.

If this has achievements, I'm all over this.

It's hard to think about buying digital Atari games for two reasons:
1. I still have my original Atari 2600.
2. Every Atari 2600 game ever released by every publisher could almost certainly collectively fit on one 1990s-era floppy disk.

I just watched the documentary on Netflix where they dug up the Atari cartridges in the New Mexico landfill. It was pretty good. E.T. was arguably a better game than Warshaw's Raiders of the Lost Ark, which is completely impossible to figure out without a walkthrough.