Midway Presents Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 1
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| System(s): Sega Saturn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Publisher: Midway Home Entertainment (US), GT Interactive Software (Europe) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Developer: Digital Eclipse | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Licensor: Atari Corporation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Original system(s): Arcade boards | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Developer(s) of original games: Atari, Inc. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Game total: 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Peripherals supported: Mission Stick, Saturn Floppy Drive, Shuttle Mouse | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre: Compilation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number of players: 1-2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Midway Presents Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 1 is a compilation of various classic arcade games created by Atari, Inc. It was brought to the Sega Saturn by Digital Eclipse and Midway Games.
Contents
Games included
- Asteroids
- Battlezone
- Centipede
- Missile Command
- Super Breakout
- Tempest
The game has analog controls in Centipede, Missile Command, and Super Breakout when played with a Mission Stick. This analog mode will not work on the 3D Control Pad.
History
Even though this compilation was produced by Midway, who owned Atari Games at this point, the games were licensed from Atari Corporation which retained ownership of Atari, Inc.'s games after it had split into two companies in 1984. This was one of the few times the two Ataris associated with each other.
Magazine articles
Physical scans
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Technical information
ROM dump status
| System | Hash | Size | Build Date | Source | Comments | |||||||||
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471,961,728 | CD-ROM (EU) | T-25413H-50 V1.000 | ||||||||||
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471,961,728 | CD-ROM (US) | T-9706H V1.000 |
External links
- Sega of America webpage: Saturn
References
- ↑ http://riehlspot.simplenet.com/vgame/new/saturn.html (Wayback Machine: 1999-02-21 17:22)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Computer & Video Games, "March 1998" (UK; 1998-02-11), page 45
- ↑ http://centromail.es:80/nuevo/consolas/sat.asp (Wayback Machine: 1998-04-30 18:14)
- ↑ Game Informer, "October 1997" (US; 1997-xx-xx), page 66
- ↑ MAN!AC, "07/98" (DE; 1998-06-03), page 73
- ↑ Sega Magazin, "September 1998" (DE; 1998-08-05), page 15
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "May 1998" (UK; 1998-04-15), page 62
- ↑ Video Games, "6/98" (DE; 1998-05-27), page 98
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| Midway, Williams and Atari compilations for Sega systems | |
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Arcade Smash Hits (1992) |
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Arcade Classics (1996) | Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits (1996) |
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Arcade Classics (1996) |
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Midway Presents Arcade's Greatest Hits (1996) | Midway Presents Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 1 (1997) |
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Midway's Greatest Arcade Hits Volume 1 (2000) | Midway's Greatest Arcade Hits Volume 2 (2000) | Atari Anniversary Edition (2001) | Midway's Greatest Arcade Hits Volume 3 (unreleased) |