Category: Atari News
Popeye was first released in 1982 by Nintendo for Arcade machines. Later, it was one of the first titles released for Nintendos’s home console ‘Nintendo Entertainment System’. It is a fixed-screen platform game, where Popeye has to catch items dropped by Olive Oil. The item varies depending on the level, starting with hearts, followed by musical notes and letters. After…
mariuszw over at Atari Age Forums has announced his next C64 to Atari 8bit port project, Bobby Bearing, an isometric 3D arcade adventure game released by The Edge in 1986 for the Sinclair Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64. Plot Bobby and his family are ball bearings who live in Technofear. Technofear is a land of the future made of…
Xenon 2 by the legendary Bitmap Brothers has always been one of my all time favourite Commodore Amiga Shmups. I’m sure many of you have played this game and remember the excellent soundtrack from Bomb the Bass. Just in case you have been living in a cardboard box for the last 26 years, the game is an overhead shooter released…
It was published this week the first gameplay video of ‘Jim Slide’, a new game for the Atari XL/XE that is being developed and will be a contestant on the ABBUC 2015 (Atari Bit Byter User Club). The game is an extension of a previous game called Slide, which is the runner-up of the NOMAM BASIC Ten-Liners 2015 Contest. In…
We are always pleased to see some of the major news outlets talking about retro-computers. This time, PC Magazine website has published today a slideshow displaying 7 great Vintage Computer Collections, some of them from people we know well from the “retro scene”, like Byte Cellar, Nightfall Crew, etc… If you are thirsty for more, you can visit some of…
The new episode of Antic, the Atari 8-bit podcast is out, with good content for all Atari fans out there. Among other subjects, the hosts discuss the Altirra BASIC, some thoughts about Kansasfest, and some interesting Atari updates at Internet Archive. To listen to the podcast, follow the link below. Link: Antic
Atari ST Gamer Magazine Issue 2 has finally been completed. This second and final collectors issue of has some great interviews, facts, and Atari ST game reviews. for your enjoyment plus allot more. The magazine is published in digital form with 78 pages and it costs £3.99 (US$6.90). This edition contains clickable hyperlinks so you can quickly jump from the…
/r/retrogaming Podcast, The official podcast of the /r/retrogaming subreddit, released episode 4 few days ago, and it brings Marty Goldberg and Curt Vendel, authors of the book ‘Atari Inc. Business is Fun‘. Curt is also the guy behind the development of Atari Flashback 1, 2 and 2+. We can say that they know a lot about Atari and its history….
Laserball 2015 is an Atari ST Arcade Puzzler, originally created as a public domain game, way back in 1991. 24 years later, Thomas Ilg decided to take another look over the code, at first fixing the odd bug here and there. However, over time he ended up creating a much bigger game than originally planned! Since returning to coding the game,…
Bomber is a new game for the Atari 8-bit computers, and it is based on a game of the same name released back in 1992, for the Commodore Format magazine cover tape. Based on Kaboom by Activision, the gameplay is fairly simple. The Mad bomber drops bombs from the top of different scenarios, and at the bottom, the player controls…
