Tag: Atariage
If you are slightly tuned to the Atari homebrew scene, you know it is alive, well and stronger than ever. Many great games have been created in the past years, including many of them being released as physical cartridges. Although most of the information about them comes from AtariAge forums, it is not easy to keep track of everything that…
Bubsy (Kitt’N Kaboodle) is a new Vic-20 hack of Fast Eddie (Sirius Software,1982). The hack was made possible using Hack-O-Matic 3, which is a hack tool intended for the Atari 2600. After reading a comment from Vic 20 Gamer, DoctorClu decided this was enough reason to get something coded up for people to try out. I played Fast Eddie on…
The Atari 2600 will have three brand new homebrew games being released at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo that will happen next October 20-22. The games are Super Cobra Arcade, Space Cactus Canyon, and Draconian. Follow the description from the press release: Super Cobra Arcade is a sequel to the classic arcade game Scramble in which the player must navigate their…
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…
Back in 2014 Fred Meijer, a collector that runs the website AtariMuseum, shared a video of a game on the Atari 8-Bit called “I Beatles e il Papiro della Pace”. This “loosely” translates to “The Beatles and the Papyrus of Peace”. The game was published by Lindasoft (Italy) in 1987. As you can see from the video below, the game shows…
Atariteca earlier this month started a poll to elect the best original game of 2016, which had a great response. Now the Spanish-speaking Atari blog is asking everyone to vote for the best game port, enhancement or hack of 2016. This time around, there is no original game, but pre-existing games that were somehow modified or games that were ported from another platform…
Atariteca, the best Atari-only website in Spanish is conducting a non-scientific poll, trying to elect the best Atari game released in 2016. The list only includes new games released in 2016 so all ports of games from other platforms or hacks/improvements were kept out. Although the poll lets you click multiple times for as many games you want, I hope the poll…
The YouTube channel Zzielins has published a video about the game”At Arion Line – Mission Zero”, a shooter that snatched the second place in a competition held at the Silly Venture 2016 retro festival. There is also a download link so you can try the game. [youtube 3Mu1deX0d8s nolink] It is version 2.7 of the game presented by Tomasz “TDC” Cieslewicz…
Day by day the evenings are getting longer, so it is time to put Atari more to focus again. Also time for a new issue of the worlds greatest Atari Magazine, ‘PRO© ATARI Magazine’. Issue 11 is now available, you can order the magazine in either German or English language. Including a massive 13 Page Lightgun-Special! with more than 23…
Neon Run is a racing game in the style of an endless runner. You drive past other cars, and try to blast them for points, the cars gets faster and after a while you begin to encounter giant holes, it’s fiendishly hard, but lot’s of fun. Not much to the sound, just the engine hum and the sound of your…
