Category: Atari 400/800/XL/XE
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Beneath Apple Manor: Play Session
We continue long play session on our Alt-VB channel, this time the Atari 8-Bit Classic proto RPG “Beneath Apple Manor” (which appear on the Apple II first of course)
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163: The A8 Show. Top 25 Atari 8bit Games not on the C64
For the premier episode of the A8 Show we decided to create a LIST!A Plain old top 25 game list would have many duplicates with the C64, so we decided to create a countdown of the top A8 games not on that system. 30+ games Video Version Audio Podcast Into…
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Atari 8bit Show Xtra: Homesoft Games Disk 304
Before we formally launch the #Atari8bit Show, I wanted to test my recording setup by making the first #Atari 8bit show Xtra by playing through and exploring the Homesoft games Disk 304. Games: Realsports Baseball Patent Pole Position Patrol XAL Alpha As you Like it, Satellite, Fuzzy, Bats! Bats! Bats!…
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New Game By Game Casts for A8 and ST on Alt VB
The Alt VB is our second channel when we can cut loose a little be and do pretty much what we want. Some of this content will be edited in some form and make it to the podcast and main channel and some will just remain here. It lets us…
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#148 Atari Now! October 2025 News and Home brew for all Atari systems
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…
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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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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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S6e10: Jeff Minter, Giles and Zarjaz with Tony Longworth – Heart of Neon Soundtrack Composer
Audio Podcast More info The full video production of our Mini Jeff Minter retrospective and Interview with Tony Longworth about the Heart of Neon Documentary is also published belowas Jeff Minter, Giles and Zarjaz with Heart of Neon Soundtrack Composer Tony Longworth. Notes Poly Play https://www.polyplay.xyz/Memories-of-Infocom-Volume-1_1 Heart of Neon Patreon…
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The Complete Asteroids on Atari Home Systems Five Part Series The Latest – Top Our Top 15 countdown.
The series is complete. Take a look at all five, with the countdown #5 at he bottom! It’s A LOT of Rock Blasting! https://cdnjs.buymeacoffee.com/1.0.0/button.prod.min.js Except where noted below, all music, video, assets, and recordings are by Jeff D. Fulton. Box and cart images for 7800 games are from Atarimania.com and…
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A-Z Atari 8bit Vertical Shooters in 18 Minutes. 60+ Games
A-Z Atari 8bit Vertical Shooters in 18 Minutes. 60+ Games https://cdnjs.buymeacoffee.com/1.0.0/button.prod.min.js We’ve combed through our archives of magazines, Public domain software, Atarimania. Fandal.cz, The HomeSoft Library, and Mobygames to find as many vertically scrolling shooters as we can. This list includes not just flying shooters, but run and gun and…
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S5:E2: Atari 50th Anniversary: Our Top-50 Atari Games (from 2020)
From 2020 for Atari’s 50th Anniversary: Our Top-50 Games From Atari.
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Atari 8bit Gaming Gems Vol 2: 25 Great Games + Notes and Ratings
25 more of our favorite Atari 8bit games. One per year for the first 25 years. Many more videos to come, exploring the entire library up until today. If your favorite isn’t here, tell us below. It will probably show up in a video later in the series. There are…
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Atari 8bit Gaming Gems Vol 1: 25 Great Games + Notes and Ratings
25 of our favorite Atari 8bit games. One per year for the first 25 years. Many more videos to come, exploring the entire library up until today. If your favorite isn’t here, tell us below. It will probably show up in a video later in the series. There are A…
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S5: E1 – Generation Atari
In this opening episode for season 5, after a tumultuous season 4, inspired by some feedback, we reaffirm just why we are here and what we mean by “The Vertical blank” and “Generation Atari. BCB #36 – “The Atari Generation” (Delving “Into the Vertical Blank.”)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tRdFWpt3L0&t=1180s “Video Games For The ‘Basest…
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S4:E14: Atari Pac-Man Day 40th Anniversary Documentary
Clocking in at almost 3 hours, this episode is a remastered super-cut of Into The Vertical Blank Season 3, Episode #1, #4 and #6 that cover April 3, 1982: Atari Pac-Man Day and it’s lasting effects on the company. Yep, this one is all about Atari VCS Pac-Man, but so…
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Video: What’s in the Cart Box: Atari 8bit Homebrew and Repro Loose Carts #1
We take a little break from a long day and look through the Atari ST Disk Box I just put together with most of the unboxeWe take a little break from a long day and look through the Atari 8bit box of loose homebrew and repro carts I just put…
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S4:E7: A Joyous Noise: Adventures With The Pokey Audio Chip
In the 80’s we sold all of our Atari 800 discs and lost all of our youthful programs BASIC programs and creative output forever. Or so we thought. A few weeks ago we discovered a lost “treasure”: an audio tape from 1984 that we never remembered recording of us using…
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S4:E6 Top-10 Atari 400/800 Games Atari Should Remake For The VCS
In this episode we have a great story about the Atari 8 bit computers from Tony Longworth (and also his song “Star Raiders”…we should have just called this the Tony Longworth episode!), some Atari retro news, and a discussion about the Atari 8bit computers games we feel are ripe to…
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Video: Let’s play Atari 8Bit Ninja
Ninja was released by Millennium for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, ZX Spectrum in 1986, It got mixed reviews, but you really you need to use a real Atari Joystick in emulation to get all of the moves available. Current Atari Mania Stats…
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S4:E5 Discovering the Atari 400: Star Raiders, Caverns Of Mars, Miner 2049er
The Atari 400 was a games machine masked as an entry-level computer computer. When it was released in 1979, it could play Atari’s killer-app “Star Raiders” just as well as it’s more serious, older brother the Atari 800. At the same time, the Atari 400 acted as a gateway…
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Video: Let’s play Atari 8Bit: X:8 ABBUC Winner 2013
X:8 is a horizonal blaster, probably the best Gradius style game on the 8-bits, with the possible exception of the horizontal levels in Paul Lay’s Atari Blast. It’s great fun and a hand buster, but…auto fire is on Automatically! Download at Fandal’s site. Stats: Year 2013 System: Atari XL/XE/XEGS Type:…
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XEGS Carts that Should Have been Vol 2
Games: Operation Blood, Pondering About Max, Mission Shark, The Brundles Volume 1: https://atomic-temporary-177246833.wpcomstaging.com/2020/11/29/xegs-games-carts-that-should-have-been-if-atari-had-decided-to-continue-vol-1/ When Atari Corp dropped support for all 8bit systems in 1992, they had only produced a couple dozen official game cartridges for the XEGs console. Other companies, Including Atari, nut mostly mainland Europeans in Germany and Poland…
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Our Latest Atari 8bit Computer Videos
Jellystone (Yogi) BBS Atari 400/800/XL/XE Games Disk 002 Part 1 (13 games) The Jellystone / Yogi games disks are a USA based compilation of the games released for the Atari 400/800 computers, and compiled by the Jellystone BBS . 98% of these will also work on the XL and XE…
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S4:E1: 1981 -Atari Coin Ops Avalanche, Firetruck, Super Bug and Dominos and games you’ll never see.
Into The Vertical Blank: Generation AtariAtari Coin Ops Avalanche, Firetruck, Super Bug and Dominos and games you’ll never see. To start off the 4th season, we chose four games to play and discuss : Early Atari Coin-ops, Avalanche, Fire Truck, Super Bug, and Dominos and Fire Truck. We also discuss…
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Atari 800 Christmas 1983: Newly Scanned Photos
Here are some newly scanned photos of what it looked like to get an Atari 800 computer for Christmas in 1983.
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XEGS Games Carts that should have been – if Atari had decided to continue. Vol 1
When Atari Corp dropped support for all 8bit systems in 1992, they had only produced a couple dozen official game cartridges for the XEGs console. But Atari UK and Germany produced or were in the middle of producing a number of high quality semi-budget games that could have been used…
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Using A8bit #fujinet to play “Pet” Galaga from – Homesoft Game Disk 404
By Jeff D. Fulton Today we are going load up Homesoft game Disk #404 and play the only version of Galaga available for Atari 8bit 400/800/XL/XE Machines. We Will play directly an Atari 130XL by loading it over the internet via WIFI with #Fujinet! Disk 404 Download #Fujinet Here is…
