Category: Atari ST
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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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Atari ST Archeology Games Published By Storm / Sales Curve
We are starting to do things a little different here at Into the Vertical Blank Towers. To comb6at AI slop, and are going to be trying to record and publish live videos as much as possible. We will still create and edit canned videos, but we want to bring a…
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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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STA 1 Really!? Out Run ST Action’s Glowing Review
#atari #atarist #outrun #staction Welcome to the second episode of the series I’m calling “STA 1 Really?” This is where we take a look at classic Atari ST reviews from the magazine ST Action. You see, an STA 1 award was supposedly given to the best games of the month…
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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 ST Archeology. Top 30 Arcade / Action Games 1985-86
op 30 Atari ST / STE Action Arcade Games from the earliest years. 1985 and 1986 represent the first primordial signs of 16 bit Atari computer gaming. There are some arcade ports and magazine games, shovelware, clones and more. A few gems, all fun to look at today as the…
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STA1! really? Atari ST Buggy Boy. One on the best ST Arcade Ports
Buggy Boy, known as Speed Buggy in North America, is an off-road racing game developed by Tatsumi and released for arcades in 1985. driving the buggy on two wheels. The ports in the UK were licensed to Elite for 1987 Releases on the C64 and Amstrad, as well as 1988…
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Make a thing: Atari ST Kid Grid Dev Diary #1
t has been at least 15 years since I completed a game of my own and more than 10 since I did any real finished game coding at all. I have only even finished one ST game (in 1990) and even though I have done a lot of tests and…
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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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#140 The Game Creator: Atari ST STOS History, Games & Community
If you were a teen, pre-teen, or even a curious adult with an 8-bit computer in the 80’s, you most likely started your journey as a computer enthusiast by playing with the basic language included with your machine. Some typed in a few programs, then moved to games and never…
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Core Designs Early Success on the Atari ST (1988-1993)
Full Text and Foot Notes Core Design emerged as a prominent British video game developer in 1988, founded by a team of experienced individuals who had previously worked at Gremlin Graphics.1 While the company later achieved global recognition for the groundbreaking Tomb Raider series 1, their earlier work laid the…
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Atari ST ASMR: 15 Well Crafted Action / Arcade Games in GFA Basic
Today we are going to cover 15 more Well crafted Action arcade titles for the Atari ST and STE. This time written in gfa basic. This will be ASMR style, so no more narration after this intro. Enjoy these games made mostly in the late 80s and early 90s by…
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Atari ST ASMR: 15 Well Crafted STOS Action Arcade Games
Atari ST ASMR: 15 Well Crafted STOS Action Arcade Games Today we are going to cover 15 Well crafted Action arcade titles for the Atari ST and STE. This will be ASMR style, so no more narration after this intro. Enjoy these games made mostly in the late 80s and…
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#134 Atari ST Special: SSI on the ST and a STOS STE game engine
Welcome to episode 134 of the Into The Vertical Blank Podcast. Today we have a special treat. It’s the 40th anniversary of the Atari ST this year, so we will be confusing most of the audio and video channels on the Atari computers and especially the ST. First up we…
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Get to Know: Atari ST One on One Beat ‘em Ups in 10 games
Today we begin a new series for the Atari ST and possibly other Platforms. This series will choose 10 games in a specific genre from the machine’s library and examine it’s evolution over the life of the platform Today we will look at one on one fighters, a genre commonly…
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127: The Essential: Atari ST Michtron’s Time Bandit from 1986.
On the Into The Vertical Blank’s The Essential Atari ST, we investigate, discuss and evaluate Atari ST Computers games and try to uncover titles worthy of play by all who are interested in the platform. We are also looking for gems in 80’s computer libraries that bridge or fill the…
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10 Good Horizontal Flying SHMUP Blasters for the Atari ST
Ahh, horizontal shoot em ups! Not a genre usually associated with Atari systems and especially the ST where scrolling the screen horizontally seemed to be a technically defeating challenge for many multi system game porting teams. Contrary to what some might believe there are some decent shooters on Atari’s multi-purpose…
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125: 10 Good “Euro” Action Platformers for the Atari ST
Join us as we take a look at 10 good #actionplatformer games for the #atarist we also briefly discuss them for the #amiga and otjer 80s computers such as the #c64 and #pc I have chosen the #Atari ST as my platform because it was what I had from 1987…
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#124: 10 Mid-80’s “Euro” Action Platformers on the Atari ST (and other 80’s computers) Audio Version
Audio cut version of the video #atari #atarst #actionplatformer #amiga #msx #c64 #speccy #amstradcpc #dos The Euro Platformer. Today the term is used with much derision, mostly by console game fans but even by some many 80’s computer games, and well now, now even by me, and we all probably…
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10 Good “Euro” Action Platformers for the Atari ST Including Sun Su Si and Switchblade 2
Last time I took a look at 10 early Action Platformers for the ST and other 80s computers that were mostly of poor to acceptable quality. This time I have found 10 that I find fun to technically good excellent specimens that show off the ST’s capabilities in the right…
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Countdown! Atari ST Top 20 Platform Run and Gun Games
Today we are going to take a look at the top 20 Atari ST run and gun platform games, The primary weapon in these games is a gun of some sort, so we have left the action platformers that use other weapons, magic or hand-to hand combat to other countdown…
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MAKE A THING! Atari ST Boulder Dash Construction Set
In this first episode of a new series, called MAKE A Thing, we attempt, to the best of our ability, to pick up Boulder Dash Construction Kit for the Atari ST and make a Pac-Man like Game. This is complicated by the fact hat I know almost nothing about Boulder…
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