Tag: Atari VCS

I think you would agree with me that it is not a surprise that retro gaming has become serious business. With the flourishing homebrew scene selling more and more copies, and the many hardware products dedicated exclusively to play old games flooding the market, it is possible to make money based on nostalgia. Another proof of this trend is a…

As promised, here is the official announcement of the new book by  Brian Matherne covering 34 of the best homebrew games available for the Atari 2600. The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion: Volume 1 is now available on Amazon in paperback format for US$ 12.99. Here is the book’s description from Amazon’s page: The Atari 2600 is alive and well, with new…

User Bryan at AtariAge has announced there will be another run of his Utimate Atari Video board for the Atari 8-bit systems. This board generates superb composite and s-video (separate) signals from all 8-bit computer systems as well as the XEGS, 2600 / VCS, 5200, and 7800 consoles. It incorporates many features designed to clean up the often terrible video…

Joe Decuir started to work for Atari in 1975 and was one of the engineers responsible for designing the iconic Atari 2600 and the 8-bit computers 400/800. The historian-podcaster-writer-archivist Kevin Savetz scanned Joe’s engineering notebooks from the time he worked at Atari and now the precious document is available at Internet Archive. With handwritten notes and schematics, the content of the…

Mr SQL user from Atariage forum has released a Defender-style game for the Atari 2600 where you have to protect the cities of Mars from  comets and meteors. On this game, you have to destroy the comets and meteors before they level the city to progress to the next level. The game ends when your ship is hit without shields…

Mortal Kombat made history as (at the time) the bloodiest and gory fighting game. As the retro scene is always looking for a way to revive or make an homage to the classics using its favorite retro platform, it is not entirely surprising to see Mortal Kombat debuting on the Atari 2600! The feat was achieved by the Atariage user “Jinroh”. For…

RevEng user on Atariage has organized a new wiki page about programming for the Atari 7800 at 7800.8bitdev.org. He explains that “those of us that have taken up 7800 development can attest that there’s a lot of information scattered about the net on programming the 7800, but much of it is outdated, and much of it is languishing. The wiki…