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#148 Atari Now! October 2025 News and Home brew for all Atari systems

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September 2–5, 2025

  • At Gamescom 2025, Atari’s CEO Wade Rosen declares the company’s ambition to become the “best in the world at retro games”, emphasizing support for retro revival studios like Nightdive, Digital Eclipse, and M2, now under Atari’s umbrella.
    Wade Rosen said :
    “”We still make sure that we appeal to our core audience that has kept the lights on,. “I mean, Atari would have ceased to exist decades ago if it weren’t for that component, right? And we know that, we don’t ignore that – we’re really grateful for that because it allows us to set up a base.”
  • GamesRadar++1
  • In a different interview, Rosen also said the Atari+ platform is evergreen, and will be around for a long time.
  • 9/4 Adventure of samsara drops: https://youtu.be/Z2x_noiDCSE

September 4:

Sep 4, 2025 — AtariAge Store adds 15 new physical releases
 AtariAge’s store blog lists Akalabeth (Intellivision), A/W/A Anthology (8-bit & 5200), plus new 2600 & 7800 carts (full list below). Orders ship in November (PRGE prep cited). AtariAge Store

Highights:

  • 3 guys who wrote these 14 games in basic in the 80’s, too ka fresh look at them in Assembly.
  • Cartridge floppy disk, thumb drive
  • This is really cool.  I love it!
  • Drone Patrol, 7800

Atariage should have all of these are PRGE, if the military allows it.

Cat DEspira on Arcade:

ARCADE: Polybius Legend’s First Appearance in Fiction? – Retro Bitch

Sep 8, 2025 — My Arcade’s Atari Gamestation Go opens pre-orders
 Handheld with 330 built-in Atari titles, 2.8″ screen, HDMI out, microSD; preorders at $99.99–$149 (bundles). Press & retailer pages. GamesRadar+

  • Controls could make this very interesting:paddle, trackball, and numeric keypad
  • 200 games, not all Atari, but a good mix (very MyArcade) some Jaleco/Piko games
  • Price went up to #179.99, which is too rich for me. If I have to choose between this and the Vectrex Mini, it will be the mini as I can play tempest and breakout “correctly” on my Arcade 1-up. 

Sep 9, 2025 — Bubsy in: The Purrfect Collection launches (Digital Eclipse)
 Release confirmed with early coverage round-up; good context for Digital Eclipse’s Atari-owned label activity.

  • The reaction is “as expected”
  • People mostly  like the treatment done by Digital Eclipse
  • People mostly donlt like Bubsy
  • This may be a problem for Atari in the future, as they just donlt have the rich IP in their own portfolio to make these kinds of releases a regular thing.  They will need find others IP.  
  • My suggestions:
    • Now that the Saudis; own EA, try to ge the “Strike” series and “Ultima” out of their hands
    • Might and Magic collection
    • Story of FTL
    • Atari 8-bit Heroes (XEGS licenses plus Niner 2049er, etc.)
    • Atarisoft collection
    • Atari ST Collection
    • 16-bit Wars “Atari ST vs. Amiga”
    • SSI RPG collection
    • WB/Tengen/Atari Games/Midway Games West Collection
    • Roller Coaster Tycoon archive

Sep 14, 2025 — Editorial: “Atari Being Important in 2025…”
 A mainstream op-ed reflecting on Atari’s momentum (new hardware, carts, IP buys)—useful color for your narrative arc.
https://www.thegamer.com/atari-comeback-history-game-preservation-2025-bubsy-4d/

  • “Atari Being Important In 2025 Was Not On My Bingo Card”
  • TheGamer.com by By  Tessa Kaur
  • “it looks like one of gaming’s most iconic businesses is trying to fight its way through the noise and establish itself as a modern gaming company, and game preservation is as strong a reason to pay attention as any”

Sep 21, 2025 — Vectrex Mini, deeper details
 Tom’s Hardware Q&A with lead manager David Oghia and VectrexOn; cross-post roundups from Vectrex.com—nice “other golden-age” angle. Vectrex Mini

  • Kickstarter coming soon: Vectrex Mini by David “Flynn” Oghia — Kickstarter
  • Features from the web site:Vectrex Mini Details – Vectrex
    •  built-in 5-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 800×600,
    • The Vectrex Mini is powered by an ESP32
    • Power is supplied via USB-C with internal battery
    • 12 built-in classic games, mostly from the General Consumer Electronics catalog (the final selection is still being completed
    • A Vector Clock mode
    • A micro-SD slot will allow the addition of games or homebrews 
    • A Bluetooth controller with four action buttons and a self-centering analog joystick 
    • a video output will be integrated at the back of the unit (the final choice between HDMI or USB-C will be confirmed during production)
    • Other items being released
      • A second controller can be purchased separately and will include a dongle to connect it to the original console.
      • Four T-shirt designs will be released, featuring artwork of the console itself, a Vectrex-style Superman, Minestrom, and Spike.
      • A book written by Douglas Alves will also be part of the collection. A well-known French specialist in video game history, longtime journalist, MO5 association member, and teacher in the field, he retraces the story of the Vectrex in this work.

Sep 26, 2025 Photos of RM 800XL case samples https://revive-machines.com/index-en.html Via Philsan Atari Scene News 

Apollo 6000:  Super Amiga FPGA, but also support Atari ST, sTe and even some falcon software: The Apollo A6000

September Issue of Old School Gamer

  • Bill Lange has a great article about 8-bit Atari games with input from amie Lendino and Peter Fletcher and Jason Moore, who are all heroes in my book.
  • Also, Bill; and Peter Fletcher had an article in the July issue of Old School Gamer about The Atari ST graphics and sound

Silicon Underground

New Book In the Mail!

Tetris Forever: Physical Version

I bought the physical version for the Switch for $29.99.  It’s pretty good, and I especially liked being able to play the original Eletronika 60 version.  The controls on the Switch are fine except for  ending and and restarting were a bit tricky, but all in all, it’s good. 

I do wish they had added Edtris from Ed Federmeyer, as it was pretty much the first homebrew game, and also a version of Tetris.  Plus I would have liked to see The Atari ST version, the Tengen NES version and the Atari Games arcade version which is probably the first version many people our age played.

Home Brew

Atari 2600

  • The Realm of Riesig, a 256K adventure  for #Atari2600 console will have a physical edition https://forums.atariage.com/topic/375724-the-realm-of-riesig-a-new-256k-adventure-game. The Realm of Riesig is a large 256k adventure game inspired by the original Atari Adventure.  It consists of 30 unique game levels, each with it’s own 64 room overworld map, a 10-15 room dungeon, and unique enemies and obstacles.  There are 2,259 defined rooms in the game! Via Philsan
  • Bell of the Dragon is an atari 2600 homebrew B Atari basic Metroidvania style game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBhT5tjXkIo
  • Atari 2600 – Gridlock is now COMPLETE! This is the first “complete” candidate of my clone of the sliding-block-type game where you have to move cars around a parking lot to allow one of the cars to have a free exit from the lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQaCYL29cZY (unlisted youtube link)
  • Mars Defender, a vertical scrolling  space shooter is a new game for #Atari2600 console https://youtu.be/ogOzYJMKL7U #atari #retrogames 
  • Via John Hancock Ancient Battles Come Alive in New Atari Strategy Game. A little  like Archon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpx4beM0Ndk  Actually called Lore Lords Gladiators. 

Atari 8bit

Atari 5200

Atari 7800

Atari ST 

Atari Lynx

Atari Jaguar

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