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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
Product Description:
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
Product Description:
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
Product Description:
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
Product Description:
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Price: $19.99
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Sega Dreamcast: Namco Museum Vol. 1
Product Description:
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
Product Description:
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
Product Description:
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
Product Description:
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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