A wild journey through videogame history, Atari Mania is a microgame collection wrapped in an hilarious retro-driven narrative of exploration and surprise.
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It's low budget and got plenty of jank but I love the idea of a warioware like reviving classic arcade games. The story, the look and all the surrounding bullshit were all unnecessary and just served to drag it down a bit more, but the core is fun enough to revisit. It's difficult though, and none of the microgames are as intuitive or rewarding as say warioware
What if we made a Wario Ware game but it sucked
Annoying
I can't in good faith call it completely worthless as it has some good ideas of using Atari's past in minigames a la 9-Volt in the WarioWare series, but it still feels too short to reach the heights of being a WarioWare competitor, or even a NES Remix competitor. There's no multiplayer option to play with others or even a Freeplay option to practice these microgames, and when so many different games in the pack have so many different physics you have to adjust to, that's a huge problem.
Also, fun fact, according to the PlayStation Trophies statistics, more people have played through the first 6 chapters of Balan Wonderworld than they did beating Atari Mania. It takes barely 2 hours and more people rather play around 4 hours of peak gaming.
Also, fun fact, according to the PlayStation Trophies statistics, more people have played through the first 6 chapters of Balan Wonderworld than they did beating Atari Mania. It takes barely 2 hours and more people rather play around 4 hours of peak gaming.