Tengen made games for Atari home systems and not just Nintendo unlicensed games? Find out about three of the best as we explore 1990’s Tengen TrilogyThe Tengen Trilogy is a Uk Only 1990 release for the Atari ST‚ Amiga‚ Zed X Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. We will be focusing on the ST version today as we explore the history‚ reviews and may crack the seal on my  unopened copy of this Atari Games compilation to the Atari ST range of computers.Tengen was the home arm of Atari Games‚ who could not publish console or computer titles under their own  moniker after the Split from Atari Corp in 1984. Because of this‚ they chose the Tengen name and began self  porting to the NES and Sega Master System   or licensing out ports of the post 1985 Atari coin titles to the likes of Domark and others.If you were an owner of an Atari 2600‚  7800 or Atari 8 bit in the USA‚ you might have looked on in jealousy as some of the best Atari Coin ops  stopped being produced for your machines with the rise of the NES‚ Sega Machines and even the Turbografx 16. The only Atari console to get a significant amount of Tengen releases as the Atari Lynx‚ but well before it finally started receiving good ports of these games‚ the 7800 languished with no new flood of Atari coin op titles‚ leaving a gulf for Atari openers who had grown up playing some of the best p[orts on their Atari branded machines. Oh‚ but an Atari System besides the Lynx did get some significant support in the way of an abundance of Atari Games titles‚ many with the Tengen label from a company called Domark‚ who were prolific in producing Atari games licensed titles for the ST. From APB to Hard Drivin’‚ the ST received a wealth of ports to satisfy the hungry Atari gamer.We will cover all of the Domark Atari ST and Lynx titles in upcoming separate videos‚ but today we are going to explore the three in the Tengen Trilogy‚ Cyberball‚ Klax and Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters.I did not find any reviews for the Tengen Trilogy for any of the 4 systems‚ let’s first crack the seal on the box and look at what’s included and then we’ll check out the reviews and other trivia as we test them on the 4160 STE.Note; As you will see as we go through these three titles‚ I have played and recorded them all in three ways. First I tested the disks directly in the STE. Because these games play in 50hrz‚ and they are not switchable for the most part from the disks‚ the screen will flicker a bit when recorded via this external camera.Next‚ to combat this‚ I have loaded the same games up on the STE from the Hard drive emulator and changed them to run at 60htz with a Tos Switcher. The games will usually play fine and be recordable via a camera pointed at the screen this way. In the case of at least one of these games‚ I could not get it to work in any of these methods and had to emulate it in the lunchbox. Cyberball is a 1990 release of a conversion of the 1988 coin op that can best  be described as American Football but with robots. As the story goes‚ Football players began replacing broken and battered limbs with robotic prosthetics in the early 2000s and in 2022  the last human fully player suffered a viscous face mask violation and was replaced with a machine leaving just robotic players in America’s favorite pastime. ST Action‚ in July 1990 reviewed Cyberball‚ giving it 80%. They liked the graphics and the action but felt the sounds could and should have been much better. The One and ST Format also gave similar scores of 79 and 80 respectively I started this one up on the STE‚ but transitioned to the emulation for game play because the screen flickers off the disk  and the hard drive version will not boot up on this. I find this game pretty fun to play. It is basically American Football with robots and they did a very nice job on implementing the American game in a unique way. This adds to the short list of Pig Skin games for my planned video on Baseball and Football on the ST.Klax is a 1990 release of a 1989 Atari Games Coin op that is best described as a color tile stacking version of Tetris. The idea is to stack tiles in threes based on color‚ creating a KLAX when you do so. The stacking can be vertical‚ horizontal or diagonal.  This will remove the matched  tiles and the ones on top will fall down. The biggest difference between Klax and Tetris is that the player gets to catch and then find a place to drop each tile. It both simplifies the game for beginners and adds an extra time and skill management challenge at higher levels. ST Format Magazine gave Klaz 87% in June of 1990‚ calling it fiendishly additive. Both CV&;G and the game machine magazines gave it scores in the 90’s and while it never had enough variety in play to rival Tetris‚ many a computer gamer in the early 90’s succumbed to its charms and wanted to play just one more game. I had never played this much before I booted this one up. It’s quite fun and gets to be a pretty decent challenge right at level 3.There is a STE improved version using the blitter and new sampled sound. To get the sounds in the correct frequency‚ I had to use the emulated footage of the standard release here.Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters Is the third and final game in this triple pack. I recorded about this one a little while back when I did a video on 4 way scrolling run and gun games for the ST‚ I noted then that it was a fun blaster where you must rescue hostages from the robots. It’s a little bit like a modern (for the times) Robotron 2084 as ironic as that might sound. In August 1992‚ ST Review magazine gave the budget version 5/5 stars‚ saying high quality laughs and game play are in store for those who succumb to the $7.99 purchase. ACE Magazine‚ Atari ST User and Cv&;G all gave this port scores at 80% or above. This game is a blast to play. Even though the push scrolling can leave you open to some unforeseen attacks‚ it cements Domark as one of the best developers of ports for the Atari ST.In a past video‚ I demonstrated this running in emulation using Mega STE settings. That is still how I prefer to play this game‚ but even on a standard stock ST it’s quite a fun and humerus game.That’s it for this time. Would I play this package now as an ST owner? Yes. All hree games are very fun and mostly take advantage of the ST capabilities. Again‚ I found that Escape is better played in emulation with Atari Mega STE settings and there is a new STE updated version of KLAX available‚ so it might be better to try in emulator or on a real  machine with those capabilities if you have them. Thanks‚ for watching‚ and have fun playing your choice of Tengen classics on the machine of your choice‚ in the Vertical Blank .