ARCADE'S GREATEST HITS - THE ATARI COLLECTION 1
Official Title  Arcade's Greatest Hits - The Atari Collection 1
Common Title  Arcade's Greatest Hits - The Atari Collection 1
Serial Number(s)  SLES-00466
Region  PAL
Genre / Style  Action / Shooter

Developer  Digital Eclipse Software, Inc.
Publisher  GT Interactive.
Date Released  20 December 1997
Disc Number &
Printed Serial Number
DISC 1

SLES-00466
Serial Number In Disc SLES-00466
Media Disc ID N / A
Number Of Tracks 1
( 1 Data Track )
Approx. Image Size
( Image Format Used )
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( .bin / .cue )
Approx.Size On Disc MB
Approx. Archive Size
( Archive Type Used )
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( 1 RAR File with
2% Recovery )
Barcode Number(s)
( UPC / EAN )

From the back cover.
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English
Menus and gameplay are in English.

Are you tired of combos, adventure quests, fatalities, hidden worlds and thick instruction manuals? Want a blast from the past? Try Midway Presents: Arcade's Greatest Hits/The Atari Collection 1 for the PlayStation, featuring six of Atari's most popular coin-op games from the late 1970s and early 1980s. Play Asteroids, Battlezone, Centipede, Missile Command, Super Breakout and Tempest.

Asteroids puts you in a triangular spaceship surrounded by floating asteroids. Your ship rotates and thrusts and is equipped with an endless supply of ammo to avoid collision with the space rocks while blasting them into smaller and smaller chunks until they disappear from the screen. Once you've cleared the screen, the action continues at a more difficult pace. From time to time, a large or small enemy flying saucer will appear on the screen.

Battlezone puts you on a mission to eliminate enemy tanks, missiles, and super tanks from an armored vehicle that can either left tread forward and reverse or right tread forward and reverse. A radar screen helps you sight and destroy the enemy. Background mountains and an assortment of geometric shapes situated on the battlefield act as obstacles.

Centipede, set in a magical forest filled with mushrooms, is a fixed-screen shooter in which you control a magic wand that maneuvers along the bottom quarter of the playfield to blast away at multi-segmented centipedes as they descend, creeping and crawling back and forth through the mushroom field. You'll also shoot jumping spiders, poisonous scorpions and frenetic fleas. Clear a centipede from the field and another takes its place, always beginning its descent from the top of the screen.

In Missile Command your job is nothing less than saving the world from nuclear annihilation with a limited allotment of anti-ballistic missiles. Protect six cities and three ground-based artillery bases as missiles rain from above. Bomb-dropping orbiters and delta-wing aircraft also make an occasionally appearance in the terror-filled skies. Maneuver your gun sight around the screen and fire from one of your artillery bases. Once you have warded off an attack, another wave begins.

Super Breakout has you controlling a Pong-like paddle that moves horizontally along the bottom of the playfield. Clear the screen by rebounding a bouncing ball off the paddle into horizontally built walls of bricks near the upper portion of the playfield. Hit a brick and it disappears.

In Tempest you maneuver a claw-shaped outer space vehicle that perches and crawls around the outer edge lanes of a series of ninety-eight tube-like constructs in the form of circles, rectangles, triangles and other geometric shapes. As you whiz around each tube, you must shoot at Flippers, Tankers, Spikers, Fuseballs and Pulsars moving and crawling toward you ship. In a fix? Employ your Super Zapper to destroy all enemies in sight.

The visuals in Asteroids, Battlezone and Tempest are composed of vector (line-drawn) graphics, just like their arcade counterparts. Except for Battlezone, all games in this compilation allow for two-player, alternating play. Battlezone, Tempest and Super Breakout support dual analog control, and you can use the optional mouse to play Centipede, Missile Command, Super Breakout and Tempest. This package also includes a documentary featuring interviews with original Atari programmers and designers.

Features:
Six classic arcade titles on one disc
Includes Missile Command, Asteroids, and Tempest
View a documentary about the history of these classic games

  Manufacturer's description:

Blast your way through an asteroid field and destroy enemy ships in Asteroids.
Super Breakout tests your eye-hand coordination as you break through walls one brick at a time.

Enjoy the non-stop action of a never-ending stream of attack in insect infestation in the classic arcade hit, Centipede.

In Tempest, you'll use unlimited firepower to shoot and destroy your enemies in a large geometric battlefield.

Missile Command lets you rescue humanity from a nuclear holocaust as enemy missiles, bombers and satellites rain warheads on populated cities and missile bases.

It's all-out war as you destroy enemy tanks, guided missiles and alien spacecraft in Battlezone.

  Features:
  • Third & First person perspectives.
  • 3D graphics
  • Cartoon graphics
  • SCI-FI & Futuristic themes.
Number Of Players  1 or 2 Players
Number Of Memory Card Blocks  1 Block
Compatible Controllers Tested
( Official Gamepads Only )
 Standard Controller ( Digital Controller compatible only )
Compatible Light Guns
( Official Light Guns Only )
 None
Other Compatible Controllers
( Official Controllers Only )
 None
Special Controllers Included Or
Supported ( Official Only )
 None
Vibration Function Compatible  No
Multi-Tap Function Compatible  No
Link Cable Function Compatibile  No
Emulator  ePSXe v.1.7.0
Video Plugin  Pete's OpenGL Driver v2.9 ( internal X & Internal Y= Very High, Stretching mode: Stretch to full window size, render Mode: 2 (Use framebuffer object) text filt = 2 FPS limit= 53, Compatibility=2,3,2; Shader effects= 1 (Fullscreen smoothin))
Audio Plugin  ePSXe SPU Core v.1.7.0
CD-ROM Plugin  ePSXe Cdrom plugin
Game Pad Plugin  N / A
Vibration Compatible  The game doesn't have it (Digital only).
Console Bios Used  SCPH7502

  NOTE:   This is not the only possible combination of plugins. There are others that will work (better or worse) for your particular hardware. We provide you with one working set-up so that you may get the game up and running, hassle-free. Testing other emulators/plugins is up to you.
 

 GAME SELECTION CONTROLS:
  Rotate game selection -  D-Pad
  Play game -  X Button
  See game history -  Triangle Button

 IN-GAME OPTIONS CONTROLS:
  Scroll menu items -  D-Pad
  Select menu item -  X Button
  Bring up menu -  Select Button

 ASTEROIDS CONTROLS:
  Rotate left or right -  D-Pad left or right
  Thrust -  D-Pad up
  Fire weapon -  X Button
  Hyperspace -  Triangle Button

 BATTLEZONE CONTROLS:
  Left tread reverse -  D-Pad Down
  Left tread forward -  D-Pad up
  Right tread reverse -  X Button
  Right tread forward -  Triangle Button
  Fire weapon -  R1 Button
 CENTIPEDE CONTROLS:
  Move -  D-Pad
  Fire -  X Button

 MISSILE COMMAND CONTROLS:
  Move -  D-Pad
  Delta Fire -  X or Triangle Button
  Alpha Fire -  Square Button
  Omega Fire -  Circle Button

 SUPER BREAKOUT CONTROLS:
  Move paddle -  D-Pad
  Serve ball -  X Button
  Progressive breakout -  Triangle Button
  Cavity breakout -  Square Button
  Double breakout -  Circle Button

 TEMPEST CONTROLS:
  Rotate counterclockwise -  D-Pad left
  Rotate clockwise -  D-Pad right
  Superzapper -  Triangle Button
  Fire -  X or Square Button

 

MISC CODES:
  Cheat Menu -   Hold L1 + L2 and press X 

GAMESHARK CODES:
  Asteroids\Infinite Lives P1 -  
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  Battlezone\Infinite Lives P1 -  
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  Centipede\Infinite Lives P1 -  
3011A93D 0005
 
  Missile Command\Infinite Cities P1 -  
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  Super Breakout\Infinite Turns P1 -  
800FC2F8 0001
 
  Tempest\Infinite Lives P1 -  
30125080 0003
 

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