''Arcade Smash Hits'' is a video game compilation of published by

Virgin Games Avalon Interactive Group, Ltd., formerly known as Virgin Interactive Entertainment, was a British video game distributor based within Europe that formerly traded as the video game publishing and distributing division of British conglomerate the V ...

in 1992 for the

Master System The is an 8-bit Third generation of video game consoles, third-generation home video game console manufactured and developed by Sega. It was originally a remodeled export version of the Sega Mark III, the third iteration of the SG-1000 series ...

. It is a compilation of three games in one cartridge, all of which were originally released in arcades by Atari, Inc. The games are '' Breakout'' (1976), ''

Centipede Centipedes (from Neo-Latin , "hundred", and Latin , "foot") are predatory arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda (Ancient Greek , ''kheilos'', "lip", and Neo-Latin suffix , "foot", describing the forcipules) of the subphylum Myriapoda, ...

'' (1980), and ''

Missile Command ''Missile Command'' is a 1980 shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Atari for arcades. Sega released the game outside North America. It was designed by Dave Theurer, who also designed Atari's vector graphics game '' Tempest'' from ...

'' (1980). They have significant graphical upgrades over the originals. The visuals in ''Breakout'' look more like ''

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''.(1986).

Reception

The compilation was negatively reviewed by ''

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'' magazine mainly for the slow responsiveness of the games and the lack of new features.

Legacy

In 1996, Sega released a similar collection for the

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and

Game Gear The is an 8-bit Fourth generation of video game consoles, fourth-generation handheld game console released by Sega on October 6, 1990 in Japan, in April 1991 throughout North America and Europe, and in 1992 in Australia. The Game Gear primarily ...

called ''

Arcade Classics ''Arcade Classics'' is a Genesis/Mega Drive compilation of three Atari, Inc. arcade video games: ''Pong'' (1972), '' Missile Command'' (1980), and ''Centipede'' (1981), plus a revised version of each one. It was published in 1996 by Sega. A v ...

'', but with ''

Pong ''Pong'' is a 1972 sports video game developed and published by Atari for arcades. It is one of the earliest arcade video games; it was created by Allan Alcorn as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, but B ...

'' instead of ''Breakout''.

References

External links

* * 1992 video games Atari video game compilations Master System games Master System-only games Multiplayer and single-player video games Multiplayer hotseat games Sega video games Video games developed in the United Kingdom Video games scored by Matthew Simmonds {{sega-stub