http://www.midway.com/futuretense_cs/cg_pop.html

(You'll need Shockwave, if you don't already have it. . .)

I wish there a few other titles in here, but still pretty cool.

Aww, hell--it's free.

It's not my favorite game they've got, but (Root Beer) Tapper I felt was the best one to play, at least control-wise.  I had some difficulty with a few of the others.

There's actually a new compilation disc out for all three consoles, Midway Arcade Treasures, I believe it's called, which features somewhere between 20 and 25 old arcade games--all of the ones on the site above, plus a bunch more.  Just as good--the price on it is only $20.  I need to pick it up for XBox here pretty soon.

I'll dig up a list of the titles for it in a sec.

You mean these?  

Midway Arcade Treasures includes 24 games: Spy Hunter, Defender, Gauntlet, Joust, Paperboy, Rampage, Marble Madness, Robotron: 2084, Smash TV, Joust 2, Bubbles, RoadBlasters, Stargate (called Defender II in this and most other classic game packages for some mysterious reason), Moon Patrol, Blaster, Rampart, Sinistar, Super Sprint, 720, Toobin', Klax, Satan's Hollow, Vindicators, and Root Beer Tapper.

Cool stuff!

Yep--that's the one.  Thanks for saving me the trouble.  Although, from what I'm hearing, Moon Patrol isn't included--they couldn't procure the rights to it or something.

I have most of those games already, but they're spread out in various other compilations for the PlayStation and Dreamcast.  It'll be nice to have them all in one place.

And yeah, Stargate = Defender II.  I'm not exactly sure of the history there, but those names have always been interchangable.  Perhaps someone who's more familiar with the situation can shed some light on it. . .

Atari just put a new collection out as well, with 80 games, including the regular 12 or so arcade games in their original collection from a couple years ago, along with most/all of their old Atari 2600 games as well.  Another must get for the vintage gaming afficionado!

For what system?  PC?  I heard recently that someone was doing a collection like that for the Game Boy Advance, but I want to say it was Activision, not Atari.

Oh, and there's also supposed to be an Intellivision compilation coming out soon, if it's not out already:  Intellivision Lives.  I haven't really been keeping up with it, since I never had an Intellivision, but I think it's got around sixty games on it or something.

Now give me something with good ol' Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. and I'll be a happy man!  

Bah (not to the games--they're great--but to the company).  Nintendo's weird.

Nintendo though, did just release a Zelda Collection, consisting of the first two NES games, and the two N64 games.  You have to jump through hoops to get it, though, apparently--either by buying a GameCube with the disc included, or by buying a couple of new games on their list, and registering them on their website, or by ordering a subscription to Nintendo Power.  Of course, I'm not interested in any of those options, but I really want the disc, so I'll probably wind up ordering a subscription to that lame-ass magazine. . .

I think it's only available for the various game consoles at this point, now that I think about it (at least 3 of them).  It just got released in the past week, and has been in a bunch of the recent ads.  Just saw it at Target today at lunch, and it does have the original 12 games that were included in the "Atari Anniversary Collection", plus a bunch more from the 2600 system.  Don't think there's any Activision games in it though, since as you mentioned, they recently released their own game collection earlier this year.

Any idea on a name for this thing, Matt?  I haven't heard anything at all about any kind of an Atari compilation for the XBox, GameCube, or PS2, and a search for "Atari" at EB Games only netted the old compilations, for PC, PSX, and Dreamcast. . .

Thanks.

when you typed "vintage gaming nerds", you really meant old people, right??

man, if you guys want some classic arcade stuff, you gotta get mame (multi arcade machine emulator, or something)... i have over 300 classic roms for that thing, and i can sit here and play all day. it's kinda "bootleg" so there's no worries about liscensing, and who doesn't want to sell the rights to their games or any of that other bs that goes on. and the roms are the exact roms that were used back in the day in the big arcade boxes. graphics are 100% exact - just like they were back in the day.

i also noticed today that x-box is going to have an intellivision classics disc coming out - or it might be out already. that might be something i need to pick up...

Oh dear...  Now look what you've gone and done!  I'm going to look like Virex in his DVD thread now (sans all the fancy links)...  

Some great books for starters:



No offense to the gaming console folks out there, but I'm a strictly PC gaming guy.  Don't know jack about the various consoles...    But here's some of the great vintage gaming collections for the PC:

Atari: 80 Classic Games In One! (just released - PC only looks like):


Including 18 classic arcade games:
Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe, Battlezone, Black Widow, Centipede, Crystal Castles, Gravitar, Liberator, Lunar Lander, Major Havoc, Millipede, Missile Command, Pong, Red Baron, Super Breakout, Space Duel, Tempest, and Warlords.

AND

Including 62 Atari 2600 titles:
3D Tic-Tac-Toe, A Game of Concentration, Adventure, Air/Sea Battle, Asteroids, Basic Programming, Battlezone, Bowling, Breakout, Canyon Bomber, Casino, Centipede, Circus Atari, Codebreaker, Combat, Crystal Castles, Demon to Diamonds, Dodge ‘em, Double Dunk, Flag Capture, Football, Fun With Numbers, Golf, Gravitar, Haunted House, Home Run, Human Cannonball, Math Gran Prix, Maze Craze, Millipede, Miniature Golf, Missile Command, Night Driver, Outlaw, Quadrun, Radar Lock, Realsports Baseball, Realsports Football, Realsports Tennis, Realsports Volleyball, Sky Diver, Slot Machine, Slot Racers, Space War, Star Raiders, Star Ship, Stellar Track, Street Racer, Submarine Commander, Super Baseball, Super Breakout, Super Football, Surround, Swordquest: Earthworld, Swordquest: Fireworld, Swordquest: Waterworld, Video Checkers, Video Chess, Video Olympics, Video Pinball, Warlords, and Yar's Revenge.

 

Atari Anniversary Edition ($10 most everywhere):


Including 12 games:
Asteroids
Asteroids Deluxe
Battlezone
Centipede
Millipede
Crystal Castles
Gravitar
Missile Command
Pong
Super Breakout
Tempest
Warlords

Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits:


Including 6 games:
Defender
Stargate
Joust
Robotron 2084
Sinistar
Bubbles

Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Midway (Williams) Collection 2:


Including 7 games:
Moon Patrol
Joust 2
Splat!
Blaster
Root Beer Tapper
Spy Hunter
Burger Time

Return of Arcade:


Includes 5 games:
Pac Man
Dig Dug
Pole Position
Galaxian
Ms. Pac Man

Activision's Atari 2600 Classics:


Includes 30 games:
Atlantis
Barnstorming
Boxing
Chopper Command
Cosmic Commuter
Crackpots
Dolphin Dragster
Enduro
Fishing Derby
Freeway
Frostbite
Grand Prix
H.E.R.O.
Ice Hockey
Kaboom!
Keystone Kapers
Laser Blast
Megamania
Oink!
Pitfall!
Plaque Attack
River Raid
River Raid 2
Seaquest
Skiing
Sky Jinks
Spider Fighter
Stampede
Tennis

Intellivision's 20th Anniv. Greatest Hits:


Includes 25 games:
Astrosmash, Star Strike, Space Armada, Space Spartans, Night Stalker, Buzz Bombers, Thin Ice, Vectron, Snafu, Pinball, Shark! Shark!, World Championship Baseball, Super Pro Football, Slam Dunk: Super Pro Basketball, Stadium Mud Buggies, Chip Shot: Super Pro Golf, Poker & Blackjack, Reversi, Backgammon, Thunder Castle, Tower of Doom, Sub Hunt, Hover Force, B-17 Bomber, and Utopia.

You can find all of these, and more, right here.

Here's the prior version of Intellivision Lives!, which was released for the PC about 5 years ago.  Looks like they just re-released it a couple weeks ago for the X-Box and PS2.



Over 50 games, including:
Auto Racing, Baseball, Basketball, Bowling, Boxing, Football, Golf, Hockey, Skiing, Soccer, Tennis, Armor Battle, Sea Battle, Sub Hunt, Snafu, Triple Action, Frog Bog, Night Stalker, Sharp Shot, Shark! Shark!, Horse Racing, Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack, Las Vegas Roulette, Royal Dealer, Word Fun, Math Fun, Astrosmash, Space Armada, Space Battle, Space Hawk, Star Strike, Backgammon, Checkers, Reversi, Utopia, Vectron, Space Spartans, Buzz Bombers, Motocross, Pinball, Body Slam: Super Pro Wrestling, Chip Shot: Super Pro Golf, Hover Force, Learning Fun I, Learning Fun II, Mountain Madness: Super Pro Skiing, Slam Dunk: Super Pro Basketball, Slap Shot: Super Pro Hockey, Spiker!: Super Pro Volleyball, Stadium Mud Buggies, Super Pro Decathlon, Super Pro Football, Thunder Castle, Tower of Doom, and World Championship Baseball.

Intellivision Lives! also includes the following unreleased/prototype games: Adventure, Air Strike, Brickout!, Crazy Clones, Deep Pockets: Super Pro Pool and Billiards, Demo Cartridge, Duncan's Thin Ice, Go For The Gold, Grid Shock, Happy Holidays, Hypnotic Lights, King of the Mountain, Land Battle, Meteor, Minotaur, Number Jumble, Party Line (includes Hard Hat and Space Cadet), Super Soccer, and Takeover.

There was also an Intellivision Rocks! sequel released for the PC a couple years ago, with games made by Third Party licensees:



Games included:
Beamrider, The Dreadnaught Factor, Happy Trails, Pitfall!, River Raid, Stampede and Worm Womper, League of Light, Robot Rubble, Atlantis, Beauty & the Beast, Demon Attack, Dracula, Dragonfire, Fathom, Ice Trek, Microsurgeon, Nova Blast, Safecracker, Swords & Serpents, Tropical Trouble, Truckin', White Water, B-17 Bomber, Bomb Squad, Space Spartans, Magic Carousel, Melody Blaster, Mind Strike, Mr. Basic Meets Bits 'N Bytes, World Series Major League Baseball, Game Factory, Number Jumble, The Flintstones' Keyboard Fun, The Jetsons' Way With Words, and Scooby Doo's Maze Chase.

I don't have this collection yet, but would love to find it, as I definitely have fond memories of playing some of those games!  

Thanks for that post, Matt.  I've also heard that the book called Game Over, by David Sheff, is a really good one.  It's supposed to detail Nintendo's rise to dominance in the mid-80's.

There are a couple of other compilations for the PlayStation, in addition to the two you mentioned above, that I've got:

Midway Presents Arcade's Greatest Hits - The Atari Collection 1

• Asteroids
• Battlezone
• Centipede
• Missle Command
• Super Breakout
• Tempest

Midway Presents Arcade's Greatest Hits - The Atari Collection 2

• Crystal Castles
• Gauntlet
• Marble Madness
• Millipede
• Road Blasters
• Paperboy

Now, what's genius about this new Treasures compilation, is that they've added a couple of "new" games that aren't available anywhere else, but they've also left off at least one game from three of the four previous compilations!  Which means, if you're a tool like me, you have to buy the new compilation, just for the two or three games that you don't already have, while at the same time, you have to hold on to all the old compilations, just for Burger Time, for example, which isn't on the new one.

Now, for the PS2, there's also the Activision Anthology, which contains "Over 45 Radical Games", most of which are included in the Activision comp. listed above, but here are a few that the PC version doesn't have:

• Beamrider
• Bridge
• Commando
• Decathlon
• Kabobber
• Pitfall 2
• Pressure Cooker
• Private Eye
• Robot Tank
• Space Shuttle
• Starmaster
• Thwocker

Out of the two comps, it looks like the only game the PC version has that the PS2 one doesn't is Atlantis--so I would tend to think that the Anthology would be the better of the two Activision comps, at least until this supposed GBA version comes out.

Speaking of the upcoming Activision GBA comp, it includes all of the above games, plus the following (this coming from IGN, supposedly):

• Baseball  
• Bloody Human Freeway  
• Climber 5
• Okie Dokie
• Oystron
• Skateboardin'
• Skeleton+
• SpaceThreat Deluxe
• Title Match
• Tomcat F-14
• Vault Assault
• Venetian Blinds
• Video Euchre

So, if all of those games are going to put onto one GBA game, well, I don't know what to say, other than that would just be the ultimate no-brainer and time-killer. . .