Category: Atari News
Atariage’s “mariuszw” & team has released his new game – The Great Escape, ported from the C64 version which was published by Ocean 1986, along with the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC versions. As we all know, the game’s objective is to help the hero, a war prisoner, to escape from a German camp. The gaming environment is displayed in isometric 2.5D…
3Plex for the Atari 8-bit computers has reached its final version and released to the public. You can think of the game as a mix between Tetris and Candy Crush, which turns out it is a very fun game to play. As you can see on the video below, you have to place on the left board the pieces that show up…
This Saturday it was published the results of the Atari Bit Byter User Club (ABBUC) game development contest 2015. With seven contestants, the first place went to ‘Jim Slider’, game featured here on ViTNO back in August, with 452 points from voters from all around the world. The second place, with 429 points went to Bomber, followed by Toy Swap…
On Oct 21st, 2015, Marty McFly arrives in our year, finally! The future pictured in the movie is not quite right, but it is an important date nonetheless. To celebrate this day, we have selected few retro games you should play, if you haven’t done already. Since we are talking specifically about the second movie, our choices are narrowed down…
A few words from KevinMos3 on AtariAge Forums: “Here is a sprite and colour hack of Double Dragon for the 7800. It’s not a major overhaul… no miracles were worked. I was looking at the sprites of the game and realized they actually look really good and are more faithful to the arcade than most of the 8-bit home console…
Scene World will attend at the press conference in the Film Museum of Frankfurt: Joe Lewandowski, leader of famous of ET Atari archaeologica that took place in the dessert of New Mexicos , USA in 2014. This way an old rumor was proven to be correct that said, that the videogame developer ATARI digged thousand of game carts due to…
The seventh issue of the printed Atari 8bit-Magazine PRO(C) ATARI is now available in English. If you want to know what PRO(C) ATARI means, you must buy this issue! This issue is also a debut a better print quality and more colours. Some of the content: Time For A Quickie (three Games played shortly) Tank Commander Remember Stichting Pokey Star…
This episode of InverseATASCII features AtariWriter, originally released in 1982 by Atari. It was first developed by Atari, but later versions were developed by Micro Fantasy. As usual you can check screenshots and scans of manuals and adverts following the link below. Link: InverseAtascii
The Portland Retro Gaming Expo (PRGE) is one of the largest classic gaming events in the US, and this year is happening next October 17th and 18th, at the Oregon Convention Center. The event will have vendors, huge arcade area, panels and special speakers. Atariage also announced that they will have a booth at the event, and they plan to release several…
FPGA Arcade is a retro computer system developed by MikeJ and can be used to emulate (in hardware) many retro computers such as: Amiga, Apple II+, AtariST, Atari 800XL, BBC B, Commodore VIC-20 / C64, MSX and the Spectrum. Mfilos has received his FPGA Arcade and has built the system inside a mini-itx case. You can follow his progress on…
