Category: Atari 400/800/XL/XE
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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 8bit Archeology: The Top Action Arcade Soccer / Footie / Futbol Games
Live play and ranking of th6 half dozen action arcade style soccer footie football futbol games on the Atari bit computers
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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 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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History & Tier List Firebird UK Atari ST and Atari 8bit Games
Firebird UK was a pivotal publisher for many 8 and 16 bit machines in the 80s and early 90s. They were one of the few publishers that targeted both the Atari 8bit and Atari ST with both full priced and budget software. We are going to take a brief look…
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The Best *#@! Christmas Ever: An Atari 8-bit Journey Into The Vertical Blank
The final, definitive version of the story we’ve been trying to tell for the past 6 years. Christmas 1983, the Atari 8-bit computer Christmas was, for many reasons, the best *#@! Christmas ever. This new version gives a rounder picture, explains The Vertical Blank, obsesses over Star Wars, and tries…
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ugBasic Game Programming #2. Exploring Atari 8bit Color Graphics
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ugBasic Game Programming #1. Atari 8bit hello world and png display
ugBasic Home Page ugBasic IDE ugBasic Sandbox Code Hello World PRINT “hello world” Code Png Display BITMAP ENABLE (2)airplane := LOAD IMAGE(“ship32x32.png”)PUT IMAGE airplane AT 0,0
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10 Fun Red Rat Games for the Atari 8bit Computers and your Atari 400 mini
Red Rat was a Manchester Based Microcomputer Software Developer that started in 1985 and mostly made only Atari 8bit and ST games until 1988 when they added The Amiga ad MS Dos to their stable of platforms. The released over 20 games for the Atari 8it, 10 of which we…
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20 Must Play Recent Releases for your Atari 8bit Computer and 400 Mini
#atari8bit #homebrew #abbuc #sillyventure #homesoft #atari #homebrew
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Six Br0derbund games that use artifacting to add more colors to Atari 8bit high res
Broderbund was one of the first companies to begin porting Apple II games and software to the Atari 8bit computers in the very early 80s and along with Sierra, Sirius and Synapse worked to push the Atari 8bit computers as far as possible both before and after Chris Crawford compiled…
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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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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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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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10 Atari 8bit Hidden Gem Arcade Clones tested on the Atari400 Mini
The #Atari8bit had a number of very good and well received official ports of arcade classics during its day, but before and after the official games were released many quality clones were produced that in may times were as good or better than the official games and in some cases…
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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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#105 The Atari 400 Mini Honest First Impressions
The Atari 400 Mini. Honest First Impressions from old skool Atari 8bit owning twins The Atari 400 mini arrived for both of us late last week. Here is our very candid first few discussions on what we like and dislike about the system. Support the Podcast 400 Mini https://amzn.to/43Efak6 Late…
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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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25 Essential Atari 8bit Horizontal SHMUPS for your Atari 400 Mini
Horizontal blasters have to be one of my absolute favorite genres of arcade and home games. The first one I ever played that blew my socks off was the Atari 2600 Vanguard, which coincidentally got an improved Atari 5200 release and an unofficial port to the Atari computers. The games…
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#104: Atari 400 Mini -BLOWOUT! All the Games and More.#104:
Audio Podcast: We take a deep dive into the Atari 400 mini, discuss what we know, the features, all the included games, plus many other games we’d like to see. (episode 104 of the “Into The Vertical Blank” podcast) Late night fuel support appreciated but not demanded : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/intothev… All…
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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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30 Essential Atari 8bit Platform Games to Rock Your Atari 400 Mini
The Atari 8bit received a wealth of classic platform games in its lifespan including arcade conversions, single, scrolling and multiscreen genres all with some type of vertical and horizontal movement across multiple platforms by jumping or climbing. Some of these games add adventure and exploration elements while others will…
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25 First and 3rd person shooters to rock your Atari 400 Mini
All of these games can be found on http://www.mushca.com/f/atari/index.php?idx=0 In this video we take a look at many fun and technically impressive Atari 8bit games that span the space shooter, ground shooter, 3rd person and even some modern style FPS shooters. All of these will work on your new #atari400mini…
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Rock the Atari 400 Mini with these 20 games: The Atari 400 Arcade #2:
The Atari 400 Mini is a replica of the original Atari 8bit computer the Atari 400. It’s an emulation box that will be released in late March 2024 and will come with 25 Atari 8bit classics built-in At this writing only 7 games have been announced with 9 more making…
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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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