Atari将于2005年三月发售一款集其过去10个经典老游戏为一体的合集游戏在NDS平台上。
December 13, 2004 - In March of 2005, Atari will release its first product for the Nintendo DS, a compilation of ten old-school titles from the company's library in the form of Retro Atari Classics. We recently had a chance to play an early-in-development revision of this classic package late last week to see just how the company's moved its retro games to the unique Nintendo DS platform.
Retro Atari Classics, developed by Taniko (GBA He-Man, Terminator 3), will feature accurate recreations of the original games. Pong, Missile Command, Asteroids, Breakout, Centipede, Tempest, Warlords, Gravitar, Lunar Lander and Sprint will return to the scene in their original 8-bit look and feel on the handheld to please the old-school purists. But Atari has also commissioned some of the top graffiti artists to produce a new look for the games in brand new 'Tagged' versions of the classics. Delta, REAS, and Obey Giant (you know, those Andre the Giant 'Obey' tags you see all over the place?) have had their hand in providing the imagery for the classic arcade and console games that will appear on the Nintendo DS cartridge.
When the game launches in just a few months, Retro Atari Classics will feature high score save to cartridge as well as wireless support for multiple players via the system's game download function. This wireless multiplayer is expected to kick all sorts of butt for its four player version of Warlords. A few of the games will also feature a hotseat option so that multiple players can take turn on the same system.
The version we kicked around at Atari still had a ways to go before it's ready for its March debut, but even in preview build form the classic games feel like they're at home on the Nintendo DS platform. Classic arcade games like Pong, Breakout and Warlords that used the 'knob' control are absolutely perfect for the DS' touch screen and the plastic thumb nub on the wrist strap or the stylus. Pong specifically has been changed to vertical orientation so that players could manipulate their own paddle via the touch screen input.
Sprint, the black and white precursor to Super Sprint and Championship Sprint operated with a very Wario Ware Touched spinning motion on the lower screen's steering wheel. Lunar Lander also operated via a touch screen interface, since the original arcade game utilized gigantic hand-operated controls that 'simulated' a lunar lander's thruster commands.
Asteroids could be controlled either by the D-pad or touchscreen, with the ship pointing in the direction where the screen was being tapped. It was a little odd to experience Missile Command with a touch-screen, especially since the designers have created a playscreen that extends two screens tall; that wouldn't be so bad if the upper screen had a touch screen, but to actually play the game properly the D-pad had to be used to move the cursor between the two screens.
Centipede and Tempest were in non-operational condition in this early build, so we're unable to see just how these classic games will look and play on the Nintendo DS. But we're sure the development studio, with a few more months to go before publish, will put the necessary polish into the compilation.
The updated versions of the classics were still being tweaked, but some games have been spiced up more than others. Warlords, for example, is now a fight between turntable jockeys instead of kingdoms. Breakout's brickwall has been 'tagged' with urban graffiti. And Asteroids...well, that's changed into something very 'cubist' in its graphic design.
Check out the first screenshots and artwork of the classic games gone 'tagged' on the Nintendo DS by hitting the link below. Make sure you add the game to your wishlish to be informed when there's new tidbits on Retro Atari Classics for the DS system.
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