Games for Windows 95 - Atari 2600 Action Pack
Channel: Rayko Diarghi
Date: 12/09/2020

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Up to the time Windows 95 came out, consoles such as Atari and Commodore, along with other consoles have dominated the early days of gaming and already made a name for themselves with classic titles. ActiVision in this instance then decided to bring up a collection of those older games, to give the Windows 95 games at the time, a single place to play their favorite games of all time.

I suppose during this era in which the PC was becoming something bigger than a glorified typewriter, the gaming capabilities of newer operative systems such as Windows 95 marked a before and after moment, the birth of PC gaming, and the currently ongoing and never ending battle between PC and console gaming.

Atari 2600 Action Pack is a collection of 15 games also published by ActiVision in 1995 for both Windows and Macintosh. This particular demo includes only 3 playable games.

First one is Pitfall. I don't know if it's related to the other Pitfall game currently in the disk or not, but basically the same thing with simpler graphics. Apologies here for the lack of sound, couldn't make it work properly. Second is Keystone Kapers, sort of a catch-the-thief game in which you have to catch (you guessed it) a thief. Strangely sound worked for this one. Finally there's Breakout, which is probably one of the earliest arkanoid-like games that subsequently got a zillion times cloned into different platforms and settings. Once again, no sound from this one.

Simple games of a simpler era (even simpler than 1995). So this can be considered the 'retro' games in what is now a 'retro' era, so... retro squared I guess.

Enjoy!

Atari 2600 Action Pack wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600_Action_Pack

ActiVision wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision

Pitfall wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitfall!

Keystone Kapers wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Kapers

Breakout wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout_(video_game)

Pitfall playthrough by The No Swear Gamer (with sound)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkDllyETiBA

Keystone Kapers longplay by World of Longplays
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YxKf8D7w8U

Breakout playthrough by Oberon Gaming (with sound)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr6z3AyhRr8

Return to Manhattan Space Station
https://youtu.be/ncX_sbIGxv8?t=377