Tag: Atariage
Atari Age member Alp is currently working on a new homebrew title for the Atari 2600 that truly looks amazing. The game is called Cat Quest. The game is, essentially, a port of this very game Alp had been working on for the NES. Alp is using the “venetian blinds” interlacing technique to potentially minimize sprite flickering. This is still…
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…
Bobby Bearing is an isometric 3D arcade adventure developed by Robert Figgins and Trevor Figgins released in 1986 for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC. “The player controls Bobby Bearing in his search for his four lost brothers and their cousin. He must avoid the evil Bearings, find his missing and unconscious relatives, and roll them out of…
The AtariAge forum user ‘mgr_inz_rafal’ has released a new game for the Atari 8-bit computers called ‘Priest John McPuke’, an adventure game which according to the developer, delivers a vast world, a multitude of different locations, a throng of items to use and an interesting story. The game was released last Christmas in Polish, and now the English version made its…
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…
Few days ago we reported that Saboteur! for Commodore 64 was getting a port for the Atari 8-bit computers. At that time, the released version for Atari had no colors yet. Terence “Tezz” Derby joined the project this week with Mariusz “mariuszw” Wojcieszek to help with the port of the game. He has reported on Atariage about his progress: “Much…
Ingo “1NG” Boller just put up on sale the digital version of the game Jim Slide, winner of the ABBUC 2015 Game Development Contest. The “Personal Digital Edition” costs only 5 euros and the buyer with receive the 48-level game via email. Also, in a nice touch, the author will customize the game intro screen with your name. To buy…
Atariage’s “mariuszw” & team has released his new game – The Great Escape, ported from the C64 version which was published by Ocean 1986, along with the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC versions. As we all know, the game’s objective is to help the hero, a war prisoner, to escape from a German camp. The gaming environment is displayed in isometric 2.5D…
3Plex for the Atari 8-bit computers has reached its final version and released to the public. You can think of the game as a mix between Tetris and Candy Crush, which turns out it is a very fun game to play. As you can see on the video below, you have to place on the left board the pieces that show up…
A few words from KevinMos3 on AtariAge Forums: “Here is a sprite and colour hack of Double Dragon for the 7800. It’s not a major overhaul… no miracles were worked. I was looking at the sprites of the game and realized they actually look really good and are more faithful to the arcade than most of the 8-bit home console…
