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Atari Flashback Games of Nintendo Switch.

You can preorder on Walmart for this collection of games.

"Relive the golden age of videogames with Atari Flashback Classics on Nintendo Switch! Includes a selection of 150 classic games from Atari's legendary platforms.
  • Classic Atari and arcade titles.
  • Remastered and bundled on one game cartridge for Nintendo Switch.
  • Recreating the legendary retro experience for today's consoles.
  • Definitive modern editions of these classic games, packed with history and powered by the latest technologies."

The interesting thing is "ONLINE".
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– Mix of titles from the arcade, the 2600 and 5200
– While some games are only from one source, some were remade for all
– Something like Centipede will be on there three times, one from each platform
– The collection will also include some games that were never released before, like Holy Moley
– Holey Moley: whack-a-mole type game
– Classic sports games included
– Well-known games such as Missile Command are here
– Some M-Network games are present like Astroblast, with Atari making a deal with Mattel to bring those games to the collection
– All three released Swordquest games (Earthworld, Fireworld and Waterworld) are here
– Unreleased game Sword Fight is included
– The border of the game is that of the original arcade cabinet
– Some games support touch screen
– With any arcade game that used a trackball, you can use the touch screen to simulate it
– If you don’t want to, you can just use the thumbstick or even the d-pad
– Any arcade game that was released in portrait mode will also support the same visual layout here
– Each of the arcade games comes with a picture of the machine, so you can see if it was standing cabinet or a tabletop cabinet
– All of the home console games come included with a digital copy of their instruction booklet
– 36 of the included titles are single player based
– The remaining games all contain some form of multiplayer, be it one at a time or all at once
– Some games even have online multiplayer
– For games that have scores, you can post those scores to online leaderboards
– The games are sorted in a way on the menu: you get all the arcade games first, then the rest are just shown alphabetically
– The collection supports save states
 
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Daniel Thomas MacInnes

GAF's Resident Saturn Omnibus
I’m not sure what this means for the Atari investors’ plans for their VCS system, but this could be good if the developers dig a little deeper into the catalog and not just dump all the non-licensed 2600 titles. We don’t wanna play 3D Tic-Tac-Toe, ya jerks.

A big question for me is Star Raiders. I’m assuming the crummy 2600 version will be the one that appears in this set, but what about the 8-bit original? That’s the true masterpiece, and the keyboard controls could be transferred to a modern controller fairly easily.
 
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