Game On: Atari Unleashes Greatest Hits On iTunes

From "King of Kong" to Google's productivity-zapping reboot of Pac-Man, retro gaming is firmly etched in the zeitgeist. And now grown-up kids can re-live their arcade-centric youth in all its quarter-scrounging glory with the release of Atari's Greatest Hits for Apple's iOS.

The Atari package available on iTunes for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad includes a free version of Pong plus 17 more classic Atari arcade games and 92 Atari 2600 games. Customers can purchase 25 separate four-game packs for $0.99 apiece or 100 games for $14.99.

The games require systems with iOs 3.0 or better. Bluetooth Mutliplayer for head-to-head play on titles such as Pong and Warlords is available, and the package comes with original cabinet and box art.

Multiple versions of ultra-popular games like Asteroids are listed (shield loyalists and hyperspace partisans can both rejoice—both versions of the game are available). But so are the more obscure games that only a rare few mastered, if only because the big kids were hogging the Pac-Man and Centipede machines.

Yes, Tempest, we're looking at you.

The full Atari's Greatest Hits lineup includes the following separate game packs:

Asteroid Pack (Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe, Asteroids 2600, Canyon Bomber - Bluetooth Multiplayer)

Battlezone Pack (Battlezone, Red Baron, Air-Sea Battle - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER, Submarine Commander)

Centipede Pack (Centipede, Millipede, Centipede 2600, Millipede 2600)

Black Widow Pack (Black Widow, Space Duel - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER, Desert Falcon, Space War)

Crystal Castles Pack (Crystal Castles, Crystal Castles 2600, Surround - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER, Maze Craze)

Gravitar Pack (Gravitar, Gravitar 2600, Radar Lock, Demons to Diamonds - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER)

Star Raiders Pack (Star Raiders, Liberator, Star Ship - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER, Human Cannonball)

Missile Command Pack (Missile Command, Missile Command 2600, Fun with Numbers, Flag Capture - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER)

Lunar Lander Pack (Lunar Lander, Sky Diver - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER, Video Pinball, Code Breaker)

Super Breakout Pack (Super Breakout, Breakout - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER, Off-the-Wall, Circus Atari - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER)

Tempest Pack (Tempest - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER, Tempest 2600 - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER, Outlaw, Atari Video Cube)

Major Havoc Pack (Major Havoc, Secret Quest, Sentinel, Yars' Revenge - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER)

Warlords Pack (Warlords - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER, Warlords 2600, Combat - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER, Combat 2 - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER)

Adventure Pack (Adventure, Haunted House, Return to Haunted House, Save Mary)

Tic-Tac-Toe Pack (3D Tic-Tac-Toe, A Game of Concentration, Backgammon, Brain Games)

Fatal Run Pack (Fatal Run, Dodge 'Em, Night Driver, Street Racer - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER)

Quadrun Pack (Quadrun, Slot Racers - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER, Stellar Track, Math Gran Prix)

Casino Pack (Casino - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER, Slot Machine, Video Checkers, Video Chess)

Sword Quest Pack (Sword Quest Earthworld, Sword Quest Fireworld, Sword Quest Waterworld, Sprintmaster)

Championship Soccer Pack (Championship Soccer - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER, Golf, Double Dunk, Basketball)

Football Pack (Football - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER, Home Run, Miniature Golf, Bowling)

Real Sports Basketball Pack (Real Sports Basketball - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER, Real Sports Boxing - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER, Real Sports Tennis - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER, Real Sports Baseball - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER)

Real Sports Football Pack (Real Sports Football - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER, Real Sports Soccer - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER, Real Sports Volleyball - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER, Video Olympics - BLUETOOTH MULTIPLAYER)

Battlezone Pack (Battlezone 2600, Super Breakout 2600, Super Baseball, Super Football)

Hangman Pack (Hangman, Black Jack, Steeplechase)