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Pong in the 1970s or duking it out with Asteroids in the '80s, Atari has two new ways to help you recapture those childhood thrills. One is Atari Flashback, a $40 gaming console that plugs directly into your TV. The other is Atari Anthology, a $20 disc of games for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox...
...today's hot sellers, but that doesn't make classics like Centipede and Missile Command any less addictive. To find out how well the updates replicated the originals, I asked a dozen TIME staff members to test them. The verdict: Anthology most faithfully recreates the Atari classics, whereas Flashback is a disappointment, lacking in both depth and performance...
...best thing about Flashback is that you don't need a PlayStation or an Xbox to use it since all the games are built into the device. Testers liked playing Centipede, in which your goal is to shoot and destroy insects that are rapidly wiggling their way down the screen. "I feel like I have more control," said one woman, comparing it with the Anthology version...
...downside, Flashback has more than 75% fewer games than Anthology, and its cheap-feeling joystick was often hard to maneuver. Even in Breakout, where all you do is hit a ball with a paddle in order to demolish a wall of bricks, I found it impossible to glide the paddle smoothly from one side of the screen to the other...
...movie have too much good stuff? Not when it's stuffed like this one. A bayoneted German soldier dies, and we literally see his last breath. A flashback to the childhood of Mathilde and Manech shows that he already loved her back then: if the crippled girl wants to see the sea from the top of the local lighthouse, he'll carry...