Tag: Atari Homebrew Games
Once again, ZeroPage Homebrew, AtariAge, Mark/Space | Argon and The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion are organizing the Annual Atari Homebrew Awards. The 3rd edition is waiting for your vote for your favourite homebrew games of 2020. As listed in this previous post, the homebrew production for the Atari 2600, Atari 7800, and Atari 8bit/5200 is huge, showing that the game…
Early this week we talked about the 2nd Annual Atari Homebrew Awards, including Atari 2600 categories but now also Atari 7800 and Atari 8-Bit/5200. As of today and through Jan 28th, you can cast your votes for your favourite game of 2019 on Atariage, following the link below. In the same thread, you can find links to download the games….
We rarely share much Atari ST/e Homebrew, it’s not that we don’t cover it, more that there really isn’t much going on in the ST/e Homebrew scene compared to say C64, Spectrum and Amstrad. Today though we do have something special to share with you. A new Homebrew title for the Atari STe has been recently released, the game is…
After the good reception that Volume 1 of Brian Matherne’s The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion, he surprised us with the second volume, already available at Amazon. The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion: Volume 2, covers another 34 game titles from 24 homebrew cartridges and ROM downloads that have been developed for the 2600. Printed in black and white on cream colored…
Popular indie games Indie games site Itch.io has just launched it’s week summer sale, offering over 600 titles with up to 75% off! Whether it be battling monsters for loot in Rogue Empire ($7.64), or turning enemy pilots to dust in Starblast ($4.99), there’s a huge range of titles to check out. Gamers looking to pick up a bargain and experience some of…
Arkanoid: Revenge of DOH is coming to the Atari Jaguar! CyranoJ over on AtariAge Forums recently shared a new update video, which you can watch below. Thanks to Dr Clu, we now have the ST, Amiga, Arcade and NES audio. Effects and music can be selected individually, so you could have, eg, Arcade music with Amiga sound effects! Jagpad, Rotary,…
Fsuinnc on Atari Age has released a new work in progress game for the Intellivision called Planetoid. The game is a clone version of the classic 1979 Arcade game Asteroids. As the game is still work in progress, currently you are set to invincible. Each game lasts 90 seconds and for every planet you destroy you are awarded one point….
Rob McMullen from Atari Player/Missile podcast and Kevin Savetz (Antic Podcast) joined forces to disassemble, document and hack Jumpman, a platform game written by Randy Glover and released by Epyx in 1983. The documentation has already 26 pages and the plan is to release it to the public when it is done. For now, both Atari enthusiasts have been tinkering with the game,…
PRO (C) ATARI Magazine – Issue 9 is a printed magazine all about Atari 8-bit computers. The new issue 9 will ship next week and it is already accepting orders. Some of the content of this month issue: ZEPPELIN Review THE MIGHTY JILL OFF Review CURSE OF THE LOST MINER: UNDERGROUND MADNESS CHALLENGE Review Link: pro(c) Atari
Andrea “Wanax”, developer of many games for the Commodore64 has announced that he will port his latest game, Platman, to the Atari 8-bit platform. He explains on the forum thread that the graphics are already completed by Jose Pereira who added “Although we two had some talkins in the past mostly regarding my mockups of Rocky Memphis here it was Wanax…