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Retro gaming junkies, you may want to sit down for this. In a launch that’s sending pixellated shockwaves across the App Store, Atari has just released Atari’s Greatest Hits [NZ App Store], a Universal app that brings 100 (yes, one hundred) Atari games, along with the original cabinet and box art, to your iPhone and iPad.

[ UPDATE: This title is now available globally, and our full review can be found here. ]

The app is a free download that comes bundled with PONG, with the additional titles — 18 classic arcade games, 92 Atari 2600 games — available as in app purchases. The additional titles can be downloaded as 25 separate game packs at $0.99 each or at a price of $14.99 for all 100. Some titles have been enhanced to provide Bluetooth multiplayer modes.

This news is made even sweeter considering our earlier report that Atari and Ion have teamed up to bring forth the $99 iCade iPad-based retro game cabinet, which should be available shortly. We had only heard a few titles specifically mentioned, but the indication was that Atari would be publishing “a huge suite" of classic games with support for the device. We’re gonna go ahead and call the 100 titles in Atari’s Greatest Hits’ “a huge suite," indeed.

The available game packs include:



Asteroid Pack 1. Asteroid 2. Asteroid Deluxe 3. Asteroids 2600 4. Canyon Bomber – Bluetooth Multiplayer

Battlezone Pack 1. Battlezone 2. Red Baron 3. Air-Sea Battle – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER 4. Submarine Commander

Centipede Pack 1. Centipede 2. Millipede 3. Centipede 2600 4. Millipede 2600

Black Widow Pack 1. Black Widow 2. Space Duel – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER 3. Desert Falcon 4. Space War

Crystal Castles Pack 1. Crystal Castles 2. Crystal Castls 2600 3. Surround – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER 4. Maze Craze

Gravitar Pack 1. Gravitar 2. Gravitar 2600 3. Radar Lock 4. Demons to Diamonds – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER

Star Raiders Pack 1. Star Raiders 2. Liberator 3. Star Ship – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER 4. Human Cannonball

Missile Command Pack 1. Missile Command 2. Missile Command 2600 3. Fun with Numbers 4. Flag Capture – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER

Lunar Lader Pack 1. Lunar Lander 2. Sky diver – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER 3. Video Pinball 4. Code Breaker

Super Breakout Pack 1. Super Breakout 2. Breakout – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER 3. Off – the – Wall 4. Circus Atari – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER

Tempest Pack 1. Tempest – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER 2. Tempest 2600 – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER 3. Outlaw 4. Atari Video Cube

Majar Havoc Pack 1. Major Havoc 2. Secret Quest 3. Sentinel 4. Yars Revenge – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER

Warlords Pack 1. Warlords – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER 2. Warlords 2600 3. Combat – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER 4. Combat 2 – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER

Adventure Pack 1. Adventure 2. Haunted House 3. Return to Haunted House 4. Save Mary

Tic-Tac-Toe Pack 1. 3d Tic-Tac-Toe 2. A game of concentration 3. Backgammon 4. Brain Games

Fatal Run Pack 1. Fatal Run 2. Dodge ‘Em 3. Night Driver 4. Street Racer – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER

Quadrun Pack 1. Quadrun 2. Slot Racers – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER 3. Stellar Track 4. Math Gran Prix

Casino Pack 1. Casino – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER 2. Slot Machine 3. Video Checkers 4. Video Chess

Sword Quest Pack 1. Swordquest Earthworld 2. Swordquest Fireworld 3. Swordquest Waterworld 4. Sprintmaster

Championship Soccer Pack 1. Championship Soccer – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER 2. Golf 3. Double Dunk 4. Basketball

Football Pack 1. Football – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER 2. Home Run 3. Miniature Golf 4. Bowling

Real Sports Basketball Pack 1. Realsports Basketball – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER 2. Realsports Boxing – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER 3. Realsports Tennis – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER 4. Realsports Baseball – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER

Real Sports Football Pack 1. Realsports Football – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER 2. Realsports Soccer – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER 3. Realsports Vollyball – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER 4. Video Olympics – BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER

Battlezone Pack 1. Battlezone 2600 2. Super Breakout 2600 3. Super Baseball 4. Super Football

Hangman Pack 1. Hangman 2. Black Jack 3. Steeplechase



Atari’s Greatest Hits can currently be had in the New Zealand App Store, and should be available in the U.S. store late tonight. We’re digging into this pile of retro goodness right now and will post a close look, in a bit.

Update: Now available worldwide.