Category: Atari News
Atariteca earlier this month started a poll to elect the best original game of 2016, which had a great response. Now the Spanish-speaking Atari blog is asking everyone to vote for the best game port, enhancement or hack of 2016. This time around, there is no original game, but pre-existing games that were somehow modified or games that were ported from another platform…
We are in a golden age of retro printed magazines, with excellent examples dedicated to different retro computers and one great multi-platform. Just before Christmas, I had in my mailbox Freeze 64 and 8-Bit Magazine. We mentioned these publications before, but I decided to talk a bit more about both to, hopefully, help those who are on the fence about buying them. Freeze…
Fairlight is an isometric projection arcade adventure video game developed by Bo Jangeborg and Jack Wilkes at EDGE Games and released in 1985 (Wikipedia), for the ZX Spectrum and later on ported to the Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC. The game was a best seller at the time as well as pleased by the magazines of the time. On Christmas day, Atariage…
Atariteca, the best Atari-only website in Spanish is conducting a non-scientific poll, trying to elect the best Atari game released in 2016. The list only includes new games released in 2016 so all ports of games from other platforms or hacks/improvements were kept out. Although the poll lets you click multiple times for as many games you want, I hope the poll…
Did you miss the magazine’s type-in era? Very few would actually miss it, but it brings good feelings remembering the days and nights typing programs from magazine’s listings, mainly when the program didn’t work, or a power outage would end it for you! Well, now is time to get revenge – people will type in your program and you might get prizes for…
Bill Lange has published on his blog a nice 2017 calendar that you can print yourself. Each month features an iconic game published for the Atari 8-bit computers. The year starts with Jumpman for January, followed by other classics like Cavern of Mars, Hardball, Pole Position, ending with Dandy! The calendar has two pages for each month, one with a screen…
Seth Bling is already known to build crazy things that run inside Minecraft. This week he surprised everybody once again when he presented a fully working Atari 2600 emulator running inside Minecraft. The emulator is capable of reading and running Atari cartridges, which were also built using Minecraft binary blocks structure (dirt or stones). There are no controllers, and the emulator…
Atari Crypt is a website dedicated to the Atari ST computers, and today Steve Gregory has announced the availability of the first issue of the AtariCrypt magazine. “Today, I am extremely proud to announce the availability of AtariCrypt Magazine. That’s right folks, a brand new magazine STuffed to the brim full of 16-bit gaming goodness. It has been designed by none…
You may have noticed it’s been quiet here these last few days, and we haven’t been updating the News much. Well there’s good reason for this, we have been adding the final touches to the new improved ‘Vintage is the New Old’ website and we are coming close to the big reveal, which we hope will be before Christmas. I…
Today we have some fantastic News about a brand new Atari ST Homebrew game by Cerebral Vortex. Crash Time Plumber is something very unique, combining the concept of Donkey Kong and Popeye. The game was presented last Saturday (12/11/16) at Silly Venture 2k16, the biggest Atari European convention held in Economic-Trade Schools in Gdansk. It placed first in its category,…
