Atari Mania Review (Steam)

by Jim Smale · October 21, 2022

Join our Atari Mania Review as we go on a wild journey through videogame history, Atari Mania is a microgame collection wrapped in a hilarious retro-driven narrative of exploration and surprise. You play as the Caretaker of the Atari Vault, the storehouse of classic Atari games. One night, a dead pixel appears, and soon enough, all heck breaks loose!!

Atari Mania Review Pros:

Decent pixel art graphics.
730.67MB Download size.
Steam achievements.
Full controller support and the recommended way to play.
Graphics settings – display mode, CRT effect, Fish eye effect, and v – sync.
Mini-game gameplay.
The game mashes a series of games together randomly to create a mini-game.
Think Warioware Atari edition.
Simple controls.
Outside of the games, you play as a janitor in the Atari Museum and you need to do cleaning, collecting art, and box art.
Excellent soundtrack.
You get a short amount of time to do a mini-game.
Collect classic game covers and manuals that populate the museum but also have a seperate viewer.
Encounters with the evil Pixels is a ten-game scenario.
Health points are lost when you fail a mini-game, lose all of them, and it’s back to the start.
Can easily quit and restart a run.
Supports using a d-pad and/or the stick.
Game manuals have to be unlocked as a reward for finishing a mini-game run.
Find and use new equipment to aid you in moving around the museum.
If you fail the last mini-game you lose your life and go back to one spot to replay a game.
Arcade cabinets have their own unique string of mini-games.
Some truly fantastic experiences.
A lot of the mash-ups are dream matchups where you want more.
The final game is generally always the same.

Atari Mania Review Cons:

No way to rebind the controls.
Doesn’t have any colorblind settings.
You have literally seconds to learn and perfect a mini-game.
Ever so slight button lag and it’s not as responsive as it needs to be.
Had games repeat themselves a lot.
No difficulty options.
Doesn’t support any online modes or leaderboards.
Had the game lock up a lot and it usually happened when loading a new mini-game scenario.