One of my first video game memories was sitting with my parents on an old color tube television and hooking the weird prongs of the Atari 2600 into the back of the TV. My parents had a dozen or more games for the Atari, everything from Missile Command to Asteroids, and while I never beat Pac-man, I definitely caught video game fever. Not long after that my best friend got a Nintendo, and my journey into video gaming was just beginning. Sometimes it’s nice to relive the past, maybe fire up some old retro games. Steam is going to make that a lot easier. The 100-game Atari Vault is now on Steam for purchase.
The math works out in the purchaser’s favor. The 100 games only cost $16.99 currently; the price will eventually go up to $19.99, but that’s still a great deal for a hundred games. Even if not every Atari game you want is on the Vault, enough of them are present to make it worth a purchase. After all, I once bought Galaga/Galaxian on Game Boy for $30, so $16 for both arcade and Atari 2600 classics isn’t that bad of a deal.
Of course, you need a Windows computer to run the collection, but odds are you already have a Windows computer if you’re a serious gamer, or even just a casual gamer like myself.
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