If you grew up feeding quarters into arcade machines or just love retro gaming, Arcades Greatest Hits - The Atari Collection 1 is like cracking open a time capsule. You get Asteroids with its chunky vector ships, Battlezone's weirdly immersive tank battles (those wireframe graphics still hold up), and Centipede—which somehow makes mushrooms stressful. Oh, and Missile Command, where you frantically try to save cities from pixel annihilation.

The SNES versions aren’t perfect arcade ports—some sounds are a little off, and the controls take a minute to adjust—but they nail the feel. Within seconds, you’re back in that zone: squinting at the screen, chasing high scores, and muttering "just one more try" at 2 AM. It’s raw, simple, and weirdly satisfying even now. If you’ve got nostalgia for this era or just want to see what all the fuss was about, this collection’s a solid way to do it.