Are there any /vr/ compilations that even come close to this? It's so vast. Design documents and promotional materials and little mini documentaries alongside legitimately classic and beloved games. The history of video games as told by Atari is a really unique perspective, with a lot of praise given to the Lynx and Jaguar, which you don't really hear that often.
Too bad its Atari
A good number of these games hold up anon. You don't like Centipede?
The PS1 version is okay
The old Intellivision Lives! compilation from early 2000s was highly regarded at the time.
>The history of video games as told by Atari is a really unique perspective, with a lot of praise given to the Lynx and Jaguar, which you don't really hear that often.
Todd Howard worked on Lynx and Jaguar?
Type Atari Jaguar into youtube and you get multiple videos talking about how much of a failure it was
I was disappointed. so many machines had a pathetic amount of games yes the atari 2600 had the most.
Deciding not to include the original Star Raiders in the computer games section of their 50th anniversary collection was certainly a choice
Yeah I know there's like three other versions of it on there but still
Its pointless when MAME exists. Why have a handful of Atari when you can have it all?
MAME comes with design documents and new mini documentaries?
>WAOW MUH HEGGIN CURATION COULDN'T GET THAT SHIT ELSEWHERE WITHIN SECONDS
Imagine playing Karateka in an MAME and going: "gee, I wonder what was written in a fan letter Jordan Mechner received from John Romero in 1985, of which I have never even heard before?"
yeah, nobody is imagining it. Infogrames has made a lot of enemies and nobody is supporting them. they bought one of the major atari forums just so they can try to make people stop criticizing their garbage business practices and to promote their business.
It acts as a good archive of Atari's history, all in one package. If you're interested, it's there. Sure beats the hell out of the Mario 3D All Stars coomlection.
This and Karateka are pretentious bloatware. I have Wikipedia and Youtube, Cifaldi. If I care to know more I'll seek it out. Put out the new games as individual downloads for me to also pirate so I don't have to have this self-indulgent mess on my drive. Or don't. They aren't that great. Fuck you.
the capcom ps2 collections include lots of concept art
the coolest is side arms. it has concept art for bosses that went unused, but eventually got implemented in side arms special for pc engine cd
Namco Museum games, especially Vol. 3, are still king of the retro compilations and it isn’t even a contest.
They have a completely 3D and genre defining aesthetic hub world with tons of Easter eggs and interesting things to discover, tons of pictures and blueprints of arcade boards, posters, general history and merchandise. It really is like a virtual museum/theme park, tons of attention went into these. They are loaded with pre rendered cutscenes of games that were only ever 2D 80’s arcade games too.
Finally, as far as people know, these are not emulations of the arcade games but actual arcade perfect ports.
These compilations are my absolute favorite way of playing my favorite namco arcade games, it does not get better than this.
I also want to add that the Atari 50th collection is probably the second best compilation series, but after playing Namco Museum you’ll see why they are the best. They made other “Namco Museums” for 6th gen that were inferior in every conceivable way to the original PlayStation versions.
I’m only posting the Japanese special edition complete collection box for the cool factor, play the NA versions.
Damn, that's beautiful. What's namcoR?
It’s actually namco®