Author: itvbadmin

  • Epic Shadow’s Corruption Actually Followed The License And Linked Back To Us!!!

    Epic Shadow’s new game Corruption uses one or more of our free music loops,  and  the developers actually used our attribution license to link back to us!!  Very cool Epic Shadow, we really appreciate it.  Thanks! Corruption is a very cool sliding block puzzler that uses the music very well. …

  • Crispy Gamer’s ‘What If’ = Atari Love!

    Kyle Orland over at my current favorite “general” gaming site, CrispyGamer.com has a new article named “What If” that proposes some alternate video game history…and much of it concerns Atari. Since we just finished an entire week of alternate Atari fantasy named : Project:Save Atari, it’s cool to see that…

  • The 56k Connection : Body Ladder Review

    The 56k Connection : Body Ladder Review Editors Note: Marz Nolte joins the 8bitrocket editorial team with the first of her sure to be insightful look at the world of casual games. Marz has bee an avid gamer ever since she helped Steve and Jeff’s parents buy them an Atari…

  • Late To The Game: Phantasy Star #2: Ground To Halt

    Note: I started this series to document my “return” to the old RPG series Phantasy Star played via the Gameboy Advanced cartridge “Phantasy Star Collection”. The previous entry in the series is here: http://www.8bitrocket.com/newsdisplay2008.aspx?newspage=18547 My name is Alis and I have a problem. I’m addicted to walking around the space…

  • New Star Soccer 4 is coming Nov 7th!

    New Star Soccer 4 is coming Nov 7th! I don’t write too many coming soon articles on PC games, but there is one game that is so good, and the wait has been so long, that I just can’t contain my excitement. What game? You ask? Well, the title of…

  • Jack’s Beach Blitz RC3 (Final)

    After some very constructive feedback from a few players (Rich D and Mark G especially), I have posted the final version of Jack’s Beach Blitz (save some minor bug fixes). It now has 20 levels (I added 5) and I have modified the player start procedure as well as the…

  • 8bitrocket Diatribe: My Development Environment and Game Pads / Joysticks for Flash Games

    8bitrocket Diatribe: My Development Environment and Game Pads / Joysticks for Flash Games My Development Environment By Development environment, I don’t mean my IDE, or the other programs and utilities in the dev tools folder on my Mac Desktop. I’m not about to break into a MAC v. PC tirade…

  • Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: Nov 1, 2008

    Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: Nov 1, 2008 The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game developers. It’s been a couple weeks since I have had time to do a mash-up. I have been busy with my new game and some other 8bitrocket towers duties…

  • GameStorm! Podcast #11: Atari Week +Jack’s Beach Blitz

    In this week’s GameStorm!  Podcast we again shed the original concept (Game Design Brainstorming) to discuss our 6 part feature from last week Project:Save Atari plus we discuss our new game “Jack’s Beach Blitz”and a few other topics. This week’s podcast features music from one of our first looped-tracked songs,…

  • New 8bitrocket Game Goes Live (Again) : Jack’s Beach Blitz Release Candidate 2

    After making some last minute story and graphics changes, I have finally finished release candidate #2 for my latest game, Jack’s Beach Blitz. It started out as a simple re-skin of Pumpkin Man for Halloween, but eventually turned into a completely different game, roughly based on the same game engine.…

  • Late To The RPG Game: Phantasy Star

    Over the past few years I have been making an attempt to find and play many of the Japanese RPG games that I otherwise missed when they were originally released. For many years I had an aversion to Japanese RPGs because I felt they were too heavy on story and…

  • Premature Rocket Launch

    This type of thing happens as you get older. Jack’s Beach Blitz was launched yesterday (last night), but unfortunately needs to be brought down for maintenance. The current version on GameJacket will not work. This is not a technical issue, it is an editorial issue.

  • New 8bitrocket Game Goes Live: Jack’s Beach Blitz

    New 8bitrocket Game Goes Live: Jack’s Beach Blitz I have finally put the finishing touches (at least for tonight) on my latest game, Jack’s Beach Blitz. It started out as a simple re-skin of Pumpkin Man for Halloween, but eventually turned into a completely different game, roughly based on the…

  • A Military Version Of Atari’s Missile Command: Rich Adam , “Chuck” react….

    A few months ago (April 30th 2008 to be exact) we wrote a story about a possible “military” version of Missile Command. The most controversial part of the story was this: While information on the Army Battlezone project is freely available today, in the early 80’s it existed as only the…

  • Making Games: Jack’s Beach Blitz Pre-Mortem

    Making Games: Jack’s Beach Blitz Pre-Mortem I have been working all weekend long to put the finishing touches on Jacks’ Beach Blitz. I failed to hit my deadline of having all 15 levels complete by today, but I have put a 99% complete 5 level preview on both Flash Game…

  • 8bitrocket.com’s Project: Save Atari #7: A Modest Proposal: The VGS-8200

    8bitrocket.com’s Project: Save Atari #7: A Modest Proposal: The VGS-8200 Note :This week we are exploring some ideas that we believe could help Atari -Infogrames pull itself out of their current difficulties, while at the time time treating Atari’s illustrious past with the reverence befitting befits the world’s first video…

  • 8bitrocket.com’s Project: Save Atari #5: Remake And Download Quality Atari 8 And 16-bit Computer Games

    8bitrocket.com’s Project: Save Atari #5: Remake And Download Quality Atari 8 And 16-bit Computer Games Note :This week we are exploring some ideas that we believe could help Atari -Infogrames pull itself out of their current diffculties, while at the time time treating Atari’s illustrious past with the reverence befitting…

  • Making Games: Jack’s Beach Blitz Part 4

    Making Games: Jack’s Beach Blitz Part 4 Note: I have been working on a game the last few weeks in my spare time to try and hit the Halloween holiday (sic – I know it really is’;t a holiday per se, as we have to work that day, but what…

  • 8bitrocket.com’s Project: Save Atari #4: Atari 7800/Lynx/Jaguar Games That Should Be Remade In The 21st Century

    8bitrocket.com’s Project: Save Atari #4: Atari 7800/Lynx/Jaguar Games That Should Be Remade In The 21st Century Note :This week we are exploring some ideas that we believe could help Atari -Infogrames pull itself out of their current difficulties, while at the time time treating Atari’s illustrious past with the reverence…

  • 8bitrocket.com’s Project: Save Atari #3: 10 Lesser-Known Atari Coin-ops That Would Make Kick-Ass Casual Games

    8bitrocket.com’s Project: Save Atari  #3: 10 Lesser-Known Atari Coin-ops That Would Make Kick-Ass Casual Games Note :This week we are exploring some ideas that we believe could help Atari -Infogrames pull itself out of their current difficulties, while at the time time treating Atari’s illustrious past with the reverence befitting…

  • 8bitrocket.com’s Project: Save Atari #2: Top-10 Atari 2600 Games That Could Have Been Franchises

    8bitrocket.com’s Project: Save Atari #2: Top-10 Atari 2600 Games That Could Have Been Franchises 8bitrocket.com’s Project: Save Atari #2: Top-10 Atari 2600 Games That Could Have Been Franchises Note :This week we are exploring some ideas that we believe could help Atari -Infogrames pull itself out of their current difficulties,…

  • 8bitrocket.com’s Project: Save Atari Week Starts!!!

    8bitrocket.com’s Project: Save Atari Week Starts!!! Anyone who follows the game industry closely knows a few facts about the name Atari: Atari, as an actual company was shot in the stomach in 1984 by Warner Exec Steve Ross and then died a slow and painful death over the next 20…

  • 8bitrocket GameStorm! Podcast #10: Setting Relations Back 50 Years

    Here is this week’s podcast.  This week we return to our “roots” with some actual “GameStorm action over several bizarre and interesting ideas generated from our GameStorm! Idea Generator.   We also cover the news, and generally have a good time. You can download the Podcast here: http://www.8bitrocket.com/podcasts/gamestorm10.mp3

  • Making Games: Jack’s Beach Blitz Part 3

    Making Games: Jack’s Beach Blitz Part 3 I have changed the name of my game from Pumpkin Man Beach Blitz to Jack’s beach blitz. Although the original name of the character in Pumpkin Man was Percy, I think Jack (for Jack-O-Lantern) is a better fit and much more catchy. I…

  • Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: October 17, 2008

    Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: October 17, 2008 The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game developers. This time we cover the latest Flashkit Game Contest; The FHM game contest; New games by Squize, Richard Davey, Steve Fulton, Terry Paton, and Brent Silby; A new…

  • Daphnies Balloon Castle (2008)

    Simple, satisfying popping action game. You must make it through the clouds to the Balloon Castle! Destroy the specified number of balloons to advance to the next cloud. Watch out for the “bad” balloons. If a balloon makes it to the top of the screen, it will return as a…

  • USB Enabled Classic Atari 2600 “Red Button” Joystick Announced Today!

    A new era for classic 8-bit retro gaming has arrived today! Curt Vendel over at Legacy engineering just clued-us-in today on his latest project that brings the classic era of the Atari 2600 to modern audiences.  Curt was instrumental in the development of the Atari Flashback 1 & 2 consoles…

  • Daphnie’s Balloon Castle goes Live! Becomes A Mochi Featured Game!

    Our latest game, Daphnie’s Balloon Castle went live on our site and through Mochi Distribution today.   As a nice bonus, Mochi put it up as one of their Featured Games in the Publishers section.   I’m not sure what the criteria is for this (it might have been slow day for…

  • Making Games: Pumpkin Man Beach Blitz Part 2

    Making Games: Pumpkin Man Beach Blitz Part 2 For the last week I have been working on a new game with the working title Pumpkin Man Beach Blitz. It is going to be a cross between Gauntlet and Wizard of Wor using the basics of an engine I created this…

  • Jack’s Beach Blitz

    Special Agent Jackson Orange, disguised as a beach ball, must blast his way through multiple levels to rescue his girl friend. This maze-based shooter is inspired by the games Gauntlet and Wizard of Wor. Upgrade your weapon, collect candy and treats to replenish your limited ammo. Use various keys, transporters,…

  • Sand Dune Park: Goodbye/Hello

    Growing up in Manhattan Beach, my favorite place to play, bar none, was Sand Dune Park.  It was a park like no other. It’s main feature, an enormous 100 foot or so high sand dune hill sloping at about a 30 percent grade, was the only piece of “play equipment”…

  • 8bitrocket GameStorm! Podcast #9: Drivecast!

    This week we have another “themed” podcast.  Because we had to do the podcast while commuting, we discussed driving games.  We talk about driving games through the years, our favorite driving games, complications with making good driving and then some of the best driving games that are suitable for remaking…

  • 8bitrocket Fresh Kill Flash: A Biased selection of new (to us) Mochi Games.

    8bitrocket Fresh Kill Flash: A Biased selection of new (to us) Mochi Games. Games get on this list in one of two ways: 1. They are in the 25 newest Mochi games feed when I start writing this entry, or I find them else where on Mochi (on the days…

  • 8bitrocket Retro Games Inter-web mash up:October 08, 2008

    8bitrocket Retro Games Inter-web mash up:October 08, 2008 The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Retro Game Fans. This time we cover new stuff on Recycled Gaming, Retro Thing, Classicgaming.com, Lemon64, Atari Mania, Lemon Amiga, c64audio, Atari Age, and RetroGamer. Recycled Gaming – A Super Mario 64…

  • Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: October 08, 2008

    Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: October 08, 2008 The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game developers. (New Format: less scatological, more awesomeness). I have separated the Retro content and the survey of new games into separate posts to help keep this organized (and shorter).…

  • GameStorm! Podcast #8: Halloween GameStorm!

    Sorry this podcast was a few days late.  This weekend was filled with so much family(kid’s birthday, soccer games)  and personal stuff (high school reunion), it was difficult to get this one edited and out the door . This week we have a session about creating viral games specifically for…

  • Making Games: Pumpkin Man Beach Blitz Part 1

    Making Games: Pumpkin Man Beach Blitz Part 1 Last weekend (not two days ago, but 8 days ago), we decided it would be a good idea to make a second version of Pumpkin Man for Halloween. It started off as quick re-skin with the hero negotiating a beach setting to…

  • R.I.P. Game Theory Show

    One of my favorite gaming podcasts, GameTheoryShow has bitten the dust today.    The show featured Gary Witta, Colin Campbell and Kris Graft (among others),  discussing games and the game industry in a way that harkened back to the best game journalism from publications like Next Generation.    The show made our list…

  • Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up:October 01, 2008

    Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up:October 01, 2008 The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game developers. Wow, it’s already October. This year has flown by but the freelance (and corporate) Flash game industry is as strong and vibrant as ever. This time we cover GPL…

  • A Comprehensive List Of Documentaries/TV/Shows/Movies About Video Game and Computer History

    If you know me, you know that I love a good movie or tv show that covers one of my favorite subjects, especially if it is non-fiction. However, the selection of these types of movies and tv programs that cover the world of video game and computer history has never…