In case you donвЂ™t know Athlete Kings is a 3D polygon summer Olympics game heavily back on the track and field games of old such as Daley ThompsonвЂ™s Decathlon, Summer Games and Activision Decathlon. This was mainly thanks to the fact that the original coin-op utilised the Sega S-TV board, which was basically a Saturn with more RAM. 9/10 Athlete KingsДЄ conversion of the Sega arcade game Decathlete (which was also the NTSC name for the game) this came out just months after the coin-op debuted. If you love your classic arcade games like I do then this collection of Atari favourites is a must have title for your Sega Saturn. All these games are classics in the true definition of the word and the only one that hasnвЂ™t aged well is Breakout - mainly thanks to Arkanoid superseding it in every single way. A game that was considered so realistic when it was released that the US Army used an adapted version to simulate tank combat! One of my all time favourite arcade games is Missile Command so I was more than happy to see this here, a game will never get boring! The final game is one that actually appears on the Saturn twice, itвЂ™s yet another vector based game, and it is none other than Tempest (which is also contained in Tempest 2000). Another vector based coin-op is up next, the wonderful Battlezone. Garden blaster Centipede is third on the list and while it might be missing the track ball it plays as well as it ever did. Next up we have Asteroids, the classic vector shoot вЂem up that broke all records when it was released. Unlike many of these arcade classics collections that feature remade versions of the games this actually uses emulation so you are able to play the exact arcade game! So letвЂ™s look at the games on offer and they start with the classic bat and ball game Breakout that was programmed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, of Apple fame, when they worked for Atari. This compilation contains six classic Atari arcade games and whilst it is actually called The Atari Collection 1, there was sadly never any further editions released. 8/10 ArcadeвЂ™s Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection It might have some fairly generic gameplay but Area 51 is also a hugely enjoyable game too. On top of this there are other crates, which are marked as flammable, that will simply explode when shot, destroying everything around them! The key feature of Area 51 that sets it apart from similar light gun shooters is that it uses a mix of digitised and pre-rendered graphics to portray the action, this gives it a real B-movie like feel. The other weapon that you have at your disposal is a limited amount of grenades, as before these can also be found hidden in destructible crates. The automatic shotgun and machine gun also enable a rapid fire function, so you can keep the trigger held down. At your disposal is a basic pistol, machine gun, pump action shotgun and finally an automatic shotgun, which targets the enemies for you. The plot tells us that the many aliens that were being kept there have organised an escape and we are going to need to stop them before they reach the outside world and all hell breaks loose! There are five different types of weapon available in the game and these power-ups can be found inside crates. Interestingly the original arcade hardware was based around that of one of the SaturnвЂ™s competitors, the Atari Jaguar, although no home version was ever released for that console! As the title gives away, this shooter is entirely set in AmericaвЂ™s top secret military base Area 51. A conversion of the 1995 Atari arcade game, Area 51 is also one of several games that can be used with the Sega Saturn Virtua Gun.

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