My first review submitted to Gamerdad.com. This was not written in the gamerdad.com style.
Activision Anthology
PS2
PS2
By Steve Fulton
(originally published on GamerDad.com)
(originally published on GamerDad.com)
For A Change, Nostalgia Is Done The Right Way...But Will
your Kids Care?
The name "Activision" means more to me than it
rightly should, and far too much than I can ever admit to
my wife. To me at age
11, the fab-four were "David Crane, Alan Miller, Bob Whitehead and Larry
Kaplan". I knew the names of the founding fathers of 3rd party video games
better than the authors of Declaration Of Independence, or the U.S.
Constitution. Activision games were so
well-crafted, they made the majority Atari's own 2600 releases look silly by
comparison. They continually released
high-quality (if sometimes shallow) games, up until the end of the first great
video game boom. After changing their
name to the obviously focus-group friendly Mediagenic and then back again in
the early 90’s, the company started to dig into it’s own history for
ideas. In 1995 they, released three Atari
2600 Action Pack titles for the PC. In 1998 they released an Activision
Classics collection for the PS1.
All of these early efforts suffered from an incomplete selection of
games, and poor game emulation.
