If you have no access to the C64 version, the Winter Games is a good substitute. You must shoot through alien after alien while protecting civilians, and as you push deeper into the game, this gets to be pretty tricky. As mentioned, the light gun is very accurate, so that certainly helps.
Alien Brigade is kinda rare, though, so expect to pay a little extra to secure it for your library. The NES version trumps it on production values. But they are the same game, meaning the edition still plays well.
This is another fast-paced shooter from the eighties arcade scene that holds up well 20 years later. The world is big enough that Atari included a map, so there is some real longevity here as well as just solid exploration gameplay. Did we mention it has Grandpa Munster? But how can you deny the concept? Or that box art? You are Charley Chuck, an ice cream aficionado that just wants to enjoy his scoop.
However, between you and the sweet treat are several chefs. You must rush to piles of food and throw it at the chefs while dodging their incoming pies.
The game is incredibly fast, as you stand at a food pile and just fling it like a MLB pitcher. When you reach your cone, Chuck's mouth swallows his cone whole in a particularly freakish moment. The visuals aren't as good as the arcade original, which is disappointing, but this is one of the few places you can find this forgotten wonder now. It should be your top grab when assembling a library.
Midnight Mutants. And you know, the game looks pretty good! Sure, the enemies all move like pixelated zombies, but this beat-em-up title plays well and has a nice multiplayer mode for those arcade feels. The aim is to rescue his girlfriend Sylvia from Mr. X, a ruthless crime lord. Punch and kick Grippers and Knife Throwers while moving through the Temple, avoiding snakes and dragons while searching for poor Sylvia. Weirdly, this game is based on the Jackie Chan film Meals on Wheels, though bares no resemblance to it whatsoever outside of Japan.
Tower Toppler takes the 17th spot in our best Atari games list! Some people may know this game as Nebulus, but Tower Toppler is the same thing. What is it with the Atari using different names all the time? Anyway, Tower Toppler is a nice little puzzler that sees players controlling a small frog. It looks like a cross between Kermit and QBert, and its mission is to destroy underwater towers. Instead of placing bombs at the base of the tower which would be more effective, our hopping-mad friend must climb towers to place bombs at the top.
One of the most notable features of Tower Toppler is that when the frog moves from left to right, the tower moves with him. Next up is Klax , a game the looks as though it resembles Guitar Hero. In actual fact, Klax is so similar to Tetris that Atari became embroiled in a legal battle. Instead of shapes falling down the screen, coloured pieces fall off a conveyer belt. Arranging them in patterns or rows causes them to disappear.
Players choose where cubes land or whether to push them back up the conveyer belt. Alien Brigade takes the 15th spot on our ultimate list of the best Atari games. It dropped in , two years before the console snuffed it. Alien Brigade is a first-person scrolling shooter that sees players kicking Alien-ass while trying to stop them from possessing the bodies of fallen soldiers.
Arguably the best way of playing Alien Brigade is with an Atari Light gun, though it works just fine with the joystick too.
The game itself is k, making it one of the largest titles on the console. The mountaintop battle at the end is the stuff of retro gaming legend. I know what everyone is thinking; Ninja Golf? How could that possibly work? Imagine Crazy Golf where the dragon by the last hole comes to life and Ninjas are continually trying to kill you. Aim your club, hit the ball, and then swap to side-scrolling mode as players tackle ninjas, birds, giant mutant frogs, gophers, more ninjas, sharks and dragons.
Enemies differ depending on the course, though fighting in some form is guaranteed on every hole. The graphics are nice, the gameplay is weird but fun, and I can guarantee that it will make you laugh! Pac-Man is a timeless classic, but Ms Pac-Man still brings in the big bucks with it comes to classic memorabilia and arcade cabinet collectors.
Everyone knows how Pac-Man works by now. Little yellow circle eating dots and avoiding ghosts; you know the score. The graphics in Ms Pac-Man looked better, especially with the emphasis on her bow and eyes making the character seem more real. She was the first female lead in a computer game too which is very cool. Ms Pac-Man remains a huge cult figure to this day, and the game is still one of my favourites, largely down to the subtle differences to the original.
With more warp tunnels in levels and ghosts that move in different formations, Ms Pac-Man provides an updated take on the original classic. Fatal Run takes the 12th spot on this list of the best Atari games ever made! This title made history as being the first 32k game released for the and ended up being the most expensive title for the back in the day, costing double the price of other games. But what is it all about? Well, players must deliver a radiation vaccine to survivors after the Earth collides with a comet.
The title screen is epic, and the graphics on the are far superior to the offering. David Crane, along with his company Absolute Entertainment, made a version for both the and the As the last worker in a factory at the end of the working day, gamers grab their board and move around all the different rooms, turning off electrics. Air ducts provide shortcuts between rooms, though you have to be on the ball to remember which doors lead to which floors etc.
Jump to reach lights and speed around the factory closing everything down. The game has a time limit which keeps players on their toes. The game looks nice and the play is super engaging, keeping gamers coming back for more and more time and time again. Choplifter takes the Number 10 position on our list of the best Atari games ever made!
It holds the impressive accolade of being one of the few titles to be ported to arcade cabinets due to its unprecedented home console success instead of the other way around. For fans of the Atari , this game is essentially the same with major graphics updates. The Atari version of this game includes both a co-op and competitive mode, so gamers of all skill levels can play together and have a blast.
Rather than re-release the same game with new levels, Nintendo re-imagined the game from the ground up. They replaced protagonist Jumpman with DK Jr. It allows up to four players to raid evil lairs together in one of the earliest dungeon crawlers in video game history. Besides the ambitious multiplayer element, the game shines for its fantastic visuals and great sprites, which do a lot to bring your fantasy adventure to life.
This unique title has your character — a jousting knight — riding a flying ostrich through several challenging levels where enemy buzzard-riders will try to throw you off your mount. What makes this game so special is mainly how fun the co-op multiplayer can be. Unlike most past attempts at co-op gaming, the developers managed to make it feel like a true companion feature, rather than a nuisance.
A total of 59 Atari console games were released, plus another 14 aftermarket games. Combined with the compatible games from previous Atari video game consoles like the Atari , the Atari provided hours of joy and entertainment. The Atari was a unique console first introduced in May The video game crash followed and delated the release of the console until January At that time, other consoles like the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Master System were becoming very popular and the Atari fit right in.
The Atari games may pale in comparison to modern games, but now the once-top-of-the-line Atari console and Atari games serve as collectors items for retro gamers worldwide. Pole Position II. Mario Bros. Donkey Kong. Food Fight. Ninja Golf. Dig Dug. Ikari Warriors. Robotron:
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