![]() ![]() Judging by leaderboards for Midway Arcade Origins on both the PS3 and 360, I sadly don't think Warner Brothers wants anything to do again with dedicated arcade compilations. ![]() I see some potential for a volume 4, especially if a Warner Brothers deal was ever worked out to add Atari Games arcade content to fill out another 50 game roster. So I'd of liked to have seen that, along with the similar Super Missile Attack hack for Missile Command. That and arcade Battlezone keep the dust off my copy of Atari Anthology for the Xbox. I also was disappointed to not see Tempest Tubes. And on the off chance that the Atari 7800 was ever emulated (which is a tough one with only a handful of fully owned releases under Atari SA ownership), add in Bentley Bear from PacManPlus. I can't imagine that with fair terms, these wouldn't of been easy and economical to secure since both were produced out of love for this hobby. The latter is a finished version of a holy grail for 5200 owners back in the day that was brought to completion by the original programmer. The former is an unofficial sequel to one of the best games on the 2600, which was produced with Atari's blessings (And the map designs I believe are featured in the 2600 game that Atari SA owns, lending some official status to it). But two realistic efforts to include would've been Adventure II and Tempest for the 5200. Lots of fine arcade ports such as on the 7800, but they're unofficial and almost always require outside licensing since they're based on non-Atari SA owned properties. I understand the homebrew area is a tough one. And several good black & white microprocessor arcade games like Night Driver and Tank 8 got passed over as well, as did a few color games like you've mentioned (I was disappointed that Food Fight didn't make the cut for volume 3). It would've been nice to have seen all the 2600 content that AtGames has secured for their plug and plays be brought to these compilations, such as Solaris for an Atari published example.Ä«attlezone in both arcade and 2600 form is missed, so it would be nice to see arrangements made to feature that even though it's officially licensed content now thanks to a very foolish decision a few years ago. Cloak and Dagger is a movie title, isn't it?
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