Thanks to Destructoid community member LostCrichton, I know what I'm eating for lunch today -- Taco Bell.
The fast food chain is apparently running a promotion with Atari, giving out PC/Mac versions of its classics with every kids meal. Four games (ports of the arcade titles) are available: Centipede, Lunar Landing, Super Breakout, and Asteroids.
Not in the market for a beefy five-layer burrito? You can purchase the games separately for about $1.50 a piece, so you can collect them all for around the price of a value meal. Hey, more tacos for me.
[Thanks, LostCrichton!]
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Or I could just buy them and avoid severe stomach complications.
God have mercy on your damned soul.
I miss real game box art like that. And arcades. And B/W switches.
It's going to take a lot more than that to get me to eat at Taco Bell though. Not to mention I've got 3 of those 4 games already in cart form.
3d mechanics for navigating asteroids, and piloting a drop ship in different gravities seem like a great way to add mini games/diversity/side quests to fps or 3ps.
Does anyone remember being a little kid, and picking a game based on it's box art only to be disappointed by vector or 8bit? I do. I wanted to play what I saw on the box. In all the discussions of remakes of retro games to current 3d graphics I've read here, or heard on podtoid - we often do not note that these games were originally marketed to us as 3d storyboard / box art. A bait and switch.
I for one wouldn't mind if Atari finally delivered 3d lunar lander and asteroids. Would you?
I like your idea.
I mean, as a kid, I loved Pitfall during the Super Nintendo era, but the difference is night and day
Next year's Zelda speech tanked completely though.
I was just thinking about that, but I think you summarized it perfectly.