Category: Atari
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Atari ST SHOW #1: Did Atari Knowingly Give Away Pirate Software? + ST News
In 1989 Atari Distributed a 4 disc game collection with new STs called “2- Great PD Games” that notoriously include some non-pd content. The Atari ST Show #1 we deep dive into the contents of these 4 disks and answer the question “Did Atari Knowingly do this?” We also look…
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#148 Atari Now! October 2025 News and Home brew for all Atari systems
September 2–5, 2025 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: Atariage should have all…
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Atari ST Archaeology Action / Arcade American Football Games
There are only a handful of #AtariST American Football games that include full arcade action and we are going to explore them all here with one reqally pleasant surprise.
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Atari 8bit Archeology: 1982 Top 40+ Awesome Arcade Shooters and SHMUPS
Back again with more Atari Computer game archeology. This time we tackle a countdown of the shmups and arcade shooters on the Atari 8bit computers in 1982 These do not all satisfy the neo description of SHMUP, so to not split hairs, I am just calling these all arcade style…
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Atari ST Archeology. Top 30 Arcade Shooters 1987
Today we bring you another Atari Computer Archaeology Video top 30 list. This is a countdown of the shmups and arcade shooters on the Atari ST computers in 1986=7. These do not all satisfy the neo description of SHMUP, so to not split hairs, I am just calling these all…
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Atari 8bit Archeology: Top 20 Shooters and Shmups 1979 – 1981.
Back again with more Atari Computer game archeology. This time we tackle a countdown of the shmups and arcade shooters on the Atari 8bit computers in its earliest years. These do not all satisfy the neo description of SHMUP, so to not split hairs, I am just calling these all…
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Atari 50th Anniversary Celebration Review with New 2024 DLC
(original review posted Nov 11, 2022) I own pretty much every Atari collection ever produced for nearly every platform it was produced for, going all the way back to the Atari 2600 Action Packs released by Activision before the internet was even a thing. However, almost every single collection has…
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#111: Overscan: Atari 8bit Sierra Action Game Tier List, News, Book Club and more!
In this episode we cover Atari SA’s 7800 product shipping dates; The possibility of new Atarisoft games; Fixing Activision Labels by Silicon Underground; Atari 2600 Coleco Tarzan ROM Found. Book Club featuring Katie Hafner’s Cyberpunk; How bad is Phantasmagoria?; Evercade Alpha; Open a New Package Feedback and the Sierra Atari…
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How to Play Atari 8bit VBXE Missile Command Arcade in Altirra
Today we are going to test the new Missile Command Arcade for the Atari 8bit.It was designed to be played with the VB XE Addon board First, what is VBXE Video Board XE (VBXE) is an add-on board that piggybacks in the ANTIC socket that works in XE class machines…
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Countdown! Atari ST Action Platform Run and Gun Top: 50 Part 3: Numbers 30-21
In this series we are exploring and continuing to countdown the 50 best scrolling platform games on the Atari ST that use guns as their primary weapon. Even if a game contains no platforms other than the ground, we are still going to consider it for this list. Some of…
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Zeppelin Games Budget Gems for the Atari8bit Computers and Atari400mini
Zeppelin Games released 19 titles for the Atari 8bit computers from 1988 through 1991, yet another budget software hose, like Atlantis in the previous video, that catered to the new market opened by Atari’s successful promotion of the XE and especially the XEGS in Christmas 1987. Zeppelin budget games were…
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Top 50 Atari ST Side Scroll Action Platform Shooters Part 2 Games 40-31
In this series we will explore and count down the top 50 scrolling #actionplatformer games on the #atari ST that use guns as their primary weapon. These are many times called #runandgun games. If a game contains no platforms other than the ground, we are still going to consider it…
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Atlantis Software Budget Gaming Gems for the Atari 8bit Computers and Atari 400 mini
Atlantis Software was a London-based budget game house that delivered 16 games for the Atari 8bit, 6 of which I think are hidden gems that many Atari 8bit owners, especially in the USA, have never heard of. Almost all 16 Atlantis Atari 8bit titles were released after the XEGS sold…
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Top 50 Atari ST Side Scroll Platform Shooters Part 1 numbers 50-41
Top 50 Atari ST Side Scroll Platform Shooters Part 1 numbers 50-41 Coming up next! In this series we will explore and count down the top 50 scrolling platform games on the Atari ST that use guns as their primary weapon. Even if a game contains no platforms other than…
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The Complete Guide to Playing AtariBlast! On our Atari 400 Mini
AtariBlast is a 1MB game, and the 400 mini currently only allows a max memory size of 128K, so how do we play the Paul Lay, Harvey Kong Tin vertical and horizontal scrolling mini Amiga Zarjaz blaster on a 400 mini? Still don’t have a 400 Mini? Support the channel…
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30 Essential Atari 8bit Vertical Flying SHMUPS for your Atari 400 Mini
Vertical Flying #SHMUPS on the #Atari #8bit computers span the genre from simple early arcade blasters though #Xevious clones and ports all the way up to explosion fest bolt on weapons blast fests. Let’s take a look at 30 of the best.Let’s get to the #Atari8bit blasting NOW Get Your…
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Atari 8bit / 5200 vs Colecovision: Atarisoft Proving Grounds
Atarisoft Proving Grounds Atari 8bit / 5200 vs Colecovision: Today we start a new series on the channel where we compare the Atari Soft classic ports from one machine against the other. We are not really comparing the merits of the machines against one another, because we have all seen…
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Atari ST Goes MAGNUM! Ocean’s 4-Hit Game Multi-Disk Pack!
We use Cyberlink 365 Video, Photo and Audio Software Magnum 4 is a 1990 Ocean game compilation released for the Atari ST. We excitedly purchased this pack in 1990 from an import shop here in California, but as we did mostly in the late 80’s and 90’s got rid of…
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Atari Proving Grounds: Burgertime. 2600 vs 7800 vs Atari8bit/5200 vs ST up next
Atari Proving Grounds: Burgertime Atari Proving Grounds: Burgertime. 2600 vs 7800 vs Atari8bit/5200 vs ST up next The Burgertime Arcade game, released in 1982 by Data East is one that I have always felt did not really get its due props as a pioneer in food related platform gaming, on…
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Have a BLAST with these 25 Atari 8bit Run and Game for your Atari 400 Mini
The Atari 8bit computers received their share of early 80’s action games where you play a lone soldier or adventurer running through the outdoors, buildings, caves, or rooms in order to blast everything in sight and sometimes accomplish a task or two . After 1985, the flood of ports slowed…
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Atari ST Vertical Flying Shooters Part 4 1990 and 91
Atari ST Vertical Flying Shooters Part 4 1990 and 91 The history of Atari ST Vertical Shooters Part 4 1990 and 1991: The Post Arcade Era In part 4, we take a look at all of the best vertical flying shooters to arrive on the Atari ST in 1990 and…
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Atari ST: The Tengen Trilogy. Crack the seal!
Tengen made games for Atari home systems and not just Nintendo unlicensed games? Find out about three of the best as we explore 1990’s Tengen Trilogy The Tengen Trilogy is a UK Only 1990 release for the Atari ST, Amiga, Zed X Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. We will be focusing…
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Atari ST The 16-Bit hit Machine. 4 Gremlin All-Out Classics
Atari ST The 16-Bit hit Machine. 4 Gremlin All-Out Classics Join me as we check out the Gremlin Atari ST 16 bit hit machine compilation from 1990 and try to see if it really does contain hits or was this a parade of budget bin wannabees?The games this time are…
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Atari ST LOG Magazine #2 May 1986: An Action RPG Point and Click and More
Podcast Version Notes: ST LOg#2 is Available at Atari Maniia http://www.atarimania.com/atari-magazine-st-log_83.html All music, audio/ video production. writing and game play by #JeffFulton and or #SteveFulton unless otherwise noted. (c)8bitrocket Studios # Atari #IntoTheVerticalBlank #Generation AtariTheme by Brian Travis T2k by Tony Longworth: https://www.patreon.com/tonylongworth Title: Into The Vertical Blank theme Words &…
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Atari 2600+ Intrigue…Does The 2600+ Use The Same Tech as Evercade?
There is something odd about the Atari 2600+.It may be nothing at all, but then again, who knows right? It all started yesterday on AtariAge.com where the 1.1 firmware for The Atari 2600+ was being tested. You can find it here: 1.1 Atari 2600+ firmware I followed the instructions on the page to…
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Atari 8bit + C64 LA Swat and Panther 2 on One pack
Atari 8bit + C64 LA Swat and Panther 2 on One pack This #Atari #8bit #Computers and #Commodore64 Double game pack 2-sided multi-format disk was developed by sculptured software and released in 1988 by Mastertronic. We go through history, open my boxed version, play all 4 games, and compare these…
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RAVING MAD! 1992 Atari ST Action Platformer Collection
Watch as we discuss history, crack the seal, play on my STE and also in Launchbox to examine this really nice collection of console style action arcade platform games In 1992 US Gold Released the Raving Mad collection for the Atari ST. it included 3 previously released games and in…
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S6:E12 Atari 8bit and more With Author and Extreme Tech Editor Jamie Lendino
#JamieLendino, #ExtremeTech ‘s Editor, is the Author of books on the #Atari8bit Computers, #Atari2600, #AtariST, Classic Arcade machines and games in the DOSs era. We sit down to discuss his books, focusing on the second edition of Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation, but end up discussing all…
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Atari ST Run and Gun #2: 25+ Top down explore and blast games.
We are covering mostly over-head 4-way scrolling games with some exceptions in session. These are represented best by Gauntlet and Alien Blast style games with some isometric explore and blast games in the mix.If a game has 4-way movement and or scrolling through multiple screens, with limited adventure and puzzle…
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Podcast Bonus!: Atari ST LOG #1 April 1986: Atari ST History from an American Perspective
The history of the #AtariST in the USA defined by ST Log magazine. In this series we will be going through the American History of the #Atari ST by focusing on the #STLog magazine, which started as a insert in the Atari 8bit magazine, #Analog, and then became its own…
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25 Atari ST Run and Gun games #1 Vertical
In this Launch Box session #2, let’s further explore the #Atar ST Game Library by looking at 25 “vertical run and gun games”. Some of these are direct arcade conversions, some are SEUCK games where the objective is not to fly, but to be on the ground shooting or exploring,…
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Atari ST STOS Basic Grief Game Dev Diary #1
Introduction In this video I am going to describe some of the decisions and algorithms I am using to create my STOS game, Grief, Grief is a classic arcade variant inspired by the arcade game Gorf, but it is not a port. The first level started with tutorials I was…
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!Atari Jaguar Raiden : Crack the Seal!
!Atari Jaguar Raiden : Crack the Seal! Raiden, which means God of Thunder, is a 1994 Port of a 1990 Seibu Kaihatsu created and Tecmo Published arcade game. Join me as we open the box (not sealed), play on my real jaguar, and explore some history and reviews of the…
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Atari Proving Grounds: Galaxian. Atari Proving Grounds: Galaxian. Atari ST vs 2600 vs 7800 vs Atari8bit/5200
Welcome to the premier episode of Atari proving grounds where we take a look at the official and semi-official games that were released across multiple classic Atari systems and pit them against one another to see which port we like the most. In this episode we are covering the Namco…
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