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AtariAge Store: Miscellaneous

It's not a game, it's not a book, or it doesn't fill an entire category - it's miscellaneous! These are items that are also related to classic gaming but don't fall in the typical categories, or just things that we thought our fellow classic gamers might be interested in.

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Cloak and Dagger

Platform: VHS

AtariAge Review
A fun comedy-adventure movie starring Dabney Coleman and Henry Thomas, the main character is a boy immersed in the world of videogames. This movie features the 5200 prominently throughout, and you will even see some prototypes that never made it to the sales floor. Cool!

Price: $17.99

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Macintosh: Asteroids

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It's great that somebody is remaking old games and making them better, rather than just licensing names and tacking them onto non sequitur first-person shooters. Activision has a winner here. Asteroids is 100 percent true to the feel of the original, with terrific new power-ups to spice things up. Though not likely to make anyone quit his day job - how many times could anyone want to clear another screen of debris? - it's fun to give a damn about high scores again.

Price: $29.99

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Pac-Man Fever

Platform: CD Audio

Amazon.com
Overcoming one-hit-wonder status is difficult enough, but it's nearly impossible when the hit happens to be a novelty song. So when Buckner & Garcia, the duo responsible for the 1982 hit single "Pac-Man Fever," were asked to do a full-length, they accepted their fate as historical footnotes, offering up an entire album's worth of arcade-inspired pop music. Certainly the video-game craze was one of the defining movements of the '80s (maybe we were shallow back then?), so it's no surprise that Buckner & Garcia sing as passionately about Donkey Kong as Rage Against the Machine do about Leonard Peltier. Best of all for purveyors of Pac, each song includes sound bites from the original arcade game, adding considerably to the nostalgia factor. --Jerald Graff

Price: $15.99

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Sega Dreamcast Smash Pack Bundle

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If you're thinking about a Dreamcast, this is the one to buy. It includes the standard Dreamcast console, plus the Sega Smash Pack CD that is not available separately yet. This title contains 12 classic Sega games such as Altered Beast, Revenge of Shinobi, Sonic, Phantasy Star 2, and Golden Axe.

Price: $119.99

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Sega Dreamcast: Frogger 2

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Frogger's 1997 incarnation gave the Frogger concept a complete overhaul, adding that oh so important third dimension and more depth, as well as a larger variety of levels, new types of jumps, multiple goals, a more complex puzzle-game feel, and a toe-tappin' soundtrack. Frogger 2 doesn't have such lofty goals, content with just giving the last installment a tune-up. Expect larger levels, higher character detail, and higher frame rate, thanks to the Dreamcast hardware. As for the catchy tunes, Frogger 2 looks set to outdo Frogger in spades, escalating toe-tappin' to rump-shakin'. With darker, more adult-themed games populating the video game market, Hasbro Interactive brings an alternative with bright graphics, solid puzzle gaming, and a unique take on a classic gaming icon.

Price: $39.99

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Sega Dreamcast: Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness

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Price: $19.99

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Sega Dreamcast: Namco Museum Vol. 1

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Remember those great arcade games of the '80s, like Pac-Man and Galaga? Well, they're now bundled together for retrogaming marathons. Namco Museum Volume 1 features true-to-the-arcade versions of six titles, including Ms. Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, Pole Position, and Galaxian. The games have an arcade debug feature to add more credits or change the difficulty settings. Players can save their high scores and game progress to the separately sold Virtual Memory Unit.

Price: $29.99

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Sega Dreamcast: Q*bert

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Q*bert contains classic, adventure, and 2-player modes. The game has been souped up to take advantage of modern systems, and the two-player action is quite fun. There is also a classic mode that is just like the original arcade game.

Price: $29.99

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Sega Game Gear

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Re-released at a super-low price! Game Gear goes everywhere so you can play in the car, on the bus, or waiting in line. Play the hottest video games from a huge selection of arcade, sports, and action titles. The full-color, hi-resolution 3.2-inch backlit LCD screen gives great detail, even in the dark! It features 32 blazing colors for arcade-quality graphics and animation.

Price: $29.99

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Tempest 3000 for Nuon

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NUON exclusive! Twenty years after the release of Tempest, the arcade classic returns on the DVD-based game system NUON. Designed by acclaimed digital artist Jeff Minter, Tempest 3000 features a high-energy techno soundtrack and impressive 3-D arcade action.

Price: $25.49

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Triumph of the Nerds

Platform: VHS

AtariAge Review
Although it focuses on computer history rather than videogames, this documentary is fascinating. Highly recommended to anyone intersted in computer or videogame history.

Price: $49.95

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Tron

Platform: DVD

Amazon.com
The surprising truth about Disney's 1982 computer-game fantasy is that it's still visually impressive (though technologically quaint by later high-definition standards) and a lot of fun. It's about a computer wizard named Flynn (Jeff Bridges) who is digitally broken down into a data stream by a villainous software pirate (David Warner) and reconstituted into the internal, 3-D graphical world of computers.

Price: $18.49

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