Tag: Atari
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…
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…
Alley Cat is a computer game created by Bill Williams and released by Synapse Software for the Atari 8-bit family in 1983, and for the PC in 1984. The player controls an alley cat whose object is to perform certain tasks within the homes of people, ultimately causing mischief and finding female cats to romance. (Oh là là, je t’aime…
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…
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
/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,…
This episode of Inverse ATASCII tackles a different type of productivity tool – The Atari Portfolio, the first MS-DOS compatible handheld device. The device is actually developed by another company – DIP Research and then licensed to Atari. To learn everything about the device, and see some nice pictures of it, head over Inverse ATASCII podcast website. Link: Inverse ATASCII
