Overview
Midway Presents Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 1 is a compilation that features six Atari arcade games. Each game has its own sub-set of options that allows players to adjust the difficulty, the number of starting lives, the amount of points required to earn extra lives, etc..
The game followed 1995/6's Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits and was followed by many more Arcade's Greatest Hits compilations, many of which were headlined by Midway.
The games included in The Atari Collection 1 are:
Asteroids
Options included:
- Ships to start: (3-4)
Battlezone
Options included:
- Missles After (5000, 10000, 20000, 30000): Set the amount of points before Missiles are used against the player.
- Tanks to start: (2-5)
- First Bonus: (None, 15000, 25000, 50000)
- Controller: (Arcade, Native)
Centipede
Options included:
- Lives to start: (2-5)
- Bonus at: (10000, 12000, 15000, 20000)
- Difficulty: (Easy, Hard)
- Player Speed: (1-5)
Missile Command
Options included:
- Cities to start: (4-7)
- Bonus at: (None, 8000, 10000, 12000, 14000, 15000, 18000, 20000)
- Player Speed: (1-5)
Super Breakout
Options included:
- Balls per game: (3, 5)
- Game Type: (Cavity, Progressive, Double)
- Player Speed (1-5)
Tempest
Options included:
- Lives to Start: (2-5)
- Bonus at (None, 10000, 20000, 30000, 40000, 50000, 60000, 70000)
- Player Speed: (1-5)
- Minimum rating: When set to 9, players can skip to level 9 at the start screen. If set to Variable, players can skip farther ahead based on the high score.
- Demo Mode: Allows access to all levels from the start screen, also enables skipping levels during the game by pressing Select. Note: Demo Mode disabled high scores.
- Difficulty: (Easy, Medium, Hard)