Tag: Breakout
I love retro computing history and every time I see a new book coming out I get excited and hope it is really good! Yesterday a new book came out – Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation. The history of Atari is already told by the excellent Atari Inc. Business is Fun. However, a more straightforward approach to Atari 8-bit computers…
The Last Breakout was made back in the 80ies for the norwegian small company Data-Tronic by norwegian Fredrik Gløckner, and was actually not the last Breakout ever made, despite its name; it is not even one of the better ones, but Genesis Project will nevertheless keep on preserving nice finds for you all to check out. This one was dug…
The Video Game Archeologist is a website that contains hundreds of game manuals, most of them for Atari games, but also for Colecovision and others. I’ve checked some of the manuals, and it was really a trip down the memory lane :). Some of the manuals of games published by Atari itself are a pleasure to check, mainly because of…
Two decades ago, Javier Lavandeira created a game called ‘Matrix – Quest for deliverance’, complete with some nice Moonblaster 1.4 stereo music and released it to close friends only. The game is a Breakout/Arkanoid clone. It has great FM-PAC / Music Module music composed by Carlos García. Coding and graphics are all by Javier Lavandeira. It runs fine on the…