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Atari Classics Land On iPhone
Posted by Mike Fahey at 12:20 AM on September 25, 2008
Ah, so this is why Atari went and attacked the developers of iPhone Breakout clones. Nothing sucks more than having to compete against better versions of your own product. Up now on the Apps Store are brand new versions of Atari classics Super Breakout and Missile Command, both redone with an added Xbox Live Arcade-style glossy finish. The missile command, seen above, looks particularly nice. Super Breakout, on the other hand, looks like Super Breakout, which basically amounts to all the cool clone versions Atari put a stop to without all the nifty bits that made them cool. Both games support two players as well as streaming your own music while you play.
Atari calls the games "true evolutions of the original hits", and promises more to come in the near future. Both games retail for $4.99 and are available now via the App Store. Nice, but not quite for me. I've bought Missile Command too many times already, and I've always been more of an Arkanoid man.
Atari fires onto App Store [Casualgaming.biz]
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anglon
Posted 1:14 AM 25/9/08
"Nothing sucks more than having to compete against better versions of your own product."
Low Blow dude.
anglon
gadjet
Posted 12:37 AM 25/9/08
Hmmmm...streaming music you say
gadjet
synapticflow
Posted 12:35 AM 25/9/08
Arkanoid FTW!
synapticflow
Shiryu
Posted 12:30 AM 25/9/08
Taito > Atari...
Shiryu
offsafety
Posted 12:28 AM 25/9/08
@sh0tgunn0strils: This brings up a question. Who's coughing up the dough for all these mobile games??? Is the market for mobile games that huge?
offsafety
sh0tgunn0strils
Posted 12:22 AM 25/9/08
NO more mobile!!!
sh0tgunn0strils
Dreamwriter
Posted 1:57 AM 25/9/08
@offsafety: While the iPhone is a, well, cell phone, I don't consider it "mobile gaming". It's got games just as good as those you'd find on DS and PSP, and better graphics than DS. I personally consider the iPhone a new handheld game console. And there are over 12 million iPhone owners, not to mention iPod Touch which can play all its games, so it already has a decent-sized audience which is continually growing.
Dreamwriter
Prism Ra
Posted 1:47 AM 25/9/08
This looks so much better than the piece of poop Missle Command remake on Live!
Prism Ra
Galivanting
Posted 2:16 AM 25/9/08
@Dreamwriter: ive bought 4 games so far and have been absolutely satisfied. its much more than mobile gaming, i never played a game on my other cellphones for hours at home. so this is certainly different.
and ffs, this is a gaming site. if its a game they should be reporting about it.
i mean hell, they put flash games on here every now and again, and most of them are hardly games
Galivanting
Galivanting
Posted 2:14 AM 25/9/08
they just had to put missile command out
its like they just know they will take my money with every crap version they put out just cause i love it so much
i think im gonna try to pull a fahey and say im not going to buy it
till my mouse is hovering over the buy button and im having to fight myself off the left click
Galivanting
ManiacFive
Posted 3:04 AM 25/9/08
@Galivanting:
Ahhhh I think you are a kindred spirit, but i have less willpower. Lets go back to this morning...
"MISSLE COMMAND! OMG!"
And its been sucking the life out my iPhones battery ever since. PEW PEW PEW! Now if only someone would release a port of the old Palm OS game Nukewar, i'd be in heaven
ManiacFive
rootyb
Posted 3:37 AM 25/9/08
1) I tried their XBLA version, and it sucked.
2) That having been said, I have it on good authority that a *much* better (read: "funner") version is going to hit the App Store in the near future.
Atari thought "you know, we can just slap some pretty graphics on the exact same game that everyone's played for years and they'll totally buy it", so they didn't innovate or change anything, really. Lightning instead of anti-ballistic missiles? Creative. Really.
rootyb
Razgriz1
Posted 12:40 AM 25/9/08
@offsafety: Impulse buyers
Razgriz1
JamPearl
Posted 1:03 AM 25/9/08
$5??? ouch ill stick to xbox live versions
JamPearl
shittorainbow
Posted 12:39 AM 25/9/08
nice... now we need classic activision games.
shittorainbow