Tag: Activision
The talented trio of Antonia Savona, Steven Day and Saul Cross that provided C64 gaming enthusiasts with recent adaptations of Chopper Command and Keystone Kapers have just released their third Atari / Activision conversion, Frostbite. According to the Frostbite game manual, the object of the game is to help Frostbite Bailey build igloos by jumping on floating blocks of ice….
The guys over at C64.com have recently interviewed David Crane. David worked at Atari with Nolan Bushnell in 1977, and co-founded Activision in 1979. David is best known for developing Pitfall, but has also published hundreds of games on the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Atari 400, Atari 800 and other platforms. You can read the in depth interview…
Helicopter Emergency Rescue Operation. So, it’s another visit to the vault of classics on the Atari 2600. Activision, still strong to this day, released many hits for the Atari, and indeed spanning across other platforms back in the 80’s, however its not the collection or the mediums under scrutiny here, it’s the utterly amazing… H.E.R.O. The all important story. Well…
More of a simulation than a game but no less fun, LITTLE COMPUTER PEOPLE by Activision released in 1985 is the featured game on this episode. If you would like to play along, you can find download links to emulators along with all the games played so far on Sprite Castle following the link below. Link: Sprite Castle
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…
