Category: Atari
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Pacman ST for the Atari ST Bedroom Coded Classics #3
Is Robert Leong’s Pacman ST, the best pure Pac-Man clone on an Atari home system? No matter the answer to this question of which is the best, PacMan ST by Robert Leong is a certified bedroom coded stone cold classic. Most of Atari’s home machines got a good official Pac-Man…
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Atari ST A Quest for Galaxia – A Bedroom Coded Stone Cold Classic #2
As you might recall, Gary “Goth” Wheaton was the genius music composer behind the bouncy tune in ST Annihilator that we covered in the first episode of this series. . I decided to keep the six degrees of separation going and start with one of Gary’s best games, A Quest…
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Atari ST Annihilator – A Bedroom Coded Stone Cold Classic
Atari ST Annihilator – A Bedroom Coded Stone Cold ClassicWhy am I at an Arcade Machine playing an ST game? Because this is one of the better ST classic arcade style Bedroom coded games. It’s called Annihilator and it’s a very well done little blaster. Atari ST Annihilator is a…
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Atari ST STOS Basic #3: Speeding up Sprite Rendering: Make a thing!
In this, the third in our New Make A Thing! Series on Atari ST STOS, we are going to experiment with 6 different methods to display and move a 27 sprite invader formation on the ST screen. We will start with Basic ST sprites, move through various pre-shifting strategies and…
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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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Missile Command Ports and Clones For Atari home Machines #2600 #5200 #atari8bit #atarist #jaguar #lynx
Today we take a look at the official ports of the Atari Coin-op Classic, Missile Command, for all Atari Home systems. We also Count down the top 10 clones across those systems with honorable mentions thrown in for good measure. Did we miss any? What’s your favorite? Is there a…
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Asteroids on Atari Home Machines part 4: #A7800, #Lynx, #Jaguar and Beyond: History Series
In this part 4, we look at the Atari 7800, Atari Lynx, Atari Jaguar, and more a modern take for the new Atari VCS / STEAM and newer consoles. In the previous three episodes we have looked at some good, excellent, bad and and a few ugly asteroids variants on…
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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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S6:E4 Inflection point! Amico v. Atari. Plus Homebrew with STOS and 7800 Basic
In this episode we have a frank discussion on the state of Amico and Atari and then dive into out new youtube venture on teaching the masses how to code games on the Atari 7800 and Atari ST. Video Version Show Notes STOS 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQy2ZZjapGE&t=5sSTOS 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXp6XWsbaN4&t=464s 7800 1 :…
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Atari XP Cartridge Fix!
Atari made an effort to fix the Atari XP non-working cartridge issue. they sent is fix and we made a video!
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S5:e6 Atari ST Halcyon Days of 1989 Part 3: Atari ST Gaming Gems
Our favorite 1989 Console Style Games for the ST We had an ST when most of the other kids near us had various consoles. We knew our machine could play superior RPGs, Simulations, and Adventure titles, but how did it hold up against the 8 and 16 bit console games…
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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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S4: E13: Bonus Atari ST Games That Rock: LLamatron ++: Llamatron, Jeff Minter and Heart of Neon
In this episode, the brothers discuss recent Christmas, the latest Atari recharged releases and then bring on their brother from another mother (and father) Tony Longworth to discuss the Jeff Minter Classic, LLamatron for the Atari ST. Listen: Discussion Video Version: Notes: Heart of Neon: https://www.heartofneon.com/ Buy a Jeff Minter…
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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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Video: Let’s play Kid Gloves Atari ST (1990)
Kid Gloves was released by Millennium for the Atari ST and Amiga in 1990, Both version are very similar. I had the ST version on a combo pack import from the UK to the USA in 1990. Not a bad little platformer. It’s very difficult and even with a two…
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Video: Install, Setup and Play GameBaseST 4.0B
Intro The last revision to GameBaseST was done in about 2005. 16 years last, we get an incredible update that really helps show off the depth and breadth of the ST’s library, but also the advances that have been made in emulation, hard disk drivers, and STE upgrades since then.…
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Video: Atari ST Crazy Cars Series
The Titus Crazy Cars series contained three games by the time the 3rd game was released it had morphed from a decent, but flaw simple racer into a true competitor in the first person racing space. Note: Crazy Cars was released in 1988 not 1998. The years have gone by…
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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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Atari SA Analysis: Will They Support Or Throttle The Atari Homebrew Community?
Yesterday Atari SA, the holding company that licenses Atari I.P. for stuff like hotels and NFTs, announced a re-organization. You can read the entire press release here: Atari announces the creation of two divisions, Atari Gaming and Atari Blockchain, and a change in Leadership To sum-up the press release, Atari…
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S4:E3: An In-Depth Interview With David Crane, Garry Kitchen, Dan Kitchen from Audacity Games
Last week we caught up with David Crane, Garry Kitchen and Dan Kitchen from Audacity Games to chat about the old Atari days, Activision, Absolute, Skyworks, the tragedy of digital obsolescence, their new venture Audacity games and their spectacular new Atari VCS game, Circus Convoy. See full video version of…
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Unboxing VIP Circus Convoy From Audacity Games: New Atari VCS Game (video)
Enjoying a pleasant morning, as my dark roast Starbucks coffee brews, unboxing the a VIP version of the new Atari VCS game “Circus Convoy” from Audacity Games (Crane, Kitchen and Kitchen). The coffee brewing and unwrapped packages might be considered ASMR, but I’m no expert.
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How The Atari 2600 Almost Killed Me (video)
A few years ago I tried my hand at making an Atari 2600 game. I did not realize how deep I would fall into its’ grasp. Story taken from the Into The Vertical Blank podcast episode S4:E2 Podcasts – Into The Vertical Blank Brickbasher code available here: Brickbasher:How The…
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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:E2: How The Atari VCS Almost Killed Me. Plus the 9 VCS Launch Games And Circus Convoy
An episode jampacked with Atari VCS goodness! First a story about the allure (and danger) of Atari VCS programming in modern times. Then a playthrough and history of the original 9 VCS 1977 launch titles. Also memories of Combat! from Tony Longworth. and a discussion and reaction of the brand…
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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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River Raid 2020: My High Score Finally Arrives
I recently purchased a fresh copy of Activision’s River Raid from eBay with the express purpose of opening it and pretending like it was Christmas 1982 all over again. I opened the game and played my first round on the Retron 77 using the Retron 77 joystick. the experience was…
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S3:E25: 1981 – Atari VCS Christmas
For the 2020 Christmas episode we go back 39 years to 1981 and talk about how it felt to want, and ultimately, get, an Atari VCS that year. We have a story from Steve about our twin scheming and planning to get a VCS, and then we have a…
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The Pitfalls Of Trying To Recreate Atari Christmas 1982 in 2020
This year for Christmas bought myself new copies of River Raid and Vanguard for the VCS so I could open them and try to recapture some of the feeling of 1982. I bought the games with very little eBay research, choosing the price over most everything else. At the same time,…
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S3:E24: Three Ghosts From Christmas Past
As we prepare for the 2020 Christmas episode of Into The Vertical Blank, here is a supercut of three Christmas stories from past seasons told for the first time, in Chronological order: -The Best @*#! Christmas Ever (1983) -Atari 7800 Christmas (1986) -The Christmas Train (1982-2011) Written, Edited, Produced by…
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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…
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S3:E23: Why We Are Thankful for STOS: The Game Creator
In this episode the brothers talk about the creation of their one and only completed Atari ST game (“Zamboozal Poker Dice”) and the tools that helped them complete it: the Mandarin / JawX Software products under the STOS banner. Come along for the ride as they discuss the old days…
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Season 2: Episode 15: The Atari 7800 and ST. Our Next Gen Super Systems
Notes: Season 2: Episode 15: The Atari 7800 and ST. Our Next Gen Super Systems In this episode we dig into American Thanksgiving 1986 and discuss our transition from the Atari 800 to the Atari ST with the Atari 7800 squeezed in between. Tony Longworth: https://patreon.com/tonylongworth Some of the music…
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S2:E12: Star Wars and Atari In The Vertical Blank : Part 2
Tunes Google Play Player FM Spotify S2:E12: Star Wars and Atari In The Vertical Blank : Part 2 In the follow-up episode to the Season 2, Episode 12, Steve and Jeff continue their discussion of the impact that Star Wars on their video game experience and video games in general.…
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Into the vertical blank: Generation Atari: Season 2, Episode 9 DragonStomper
In the episode, Steve and Jeff take a deep look at the Atari 2600 game Dragon Stomper, what it meant to them in the grand scheme of gaming, and also how it had an effect on early 80’s video and computer games as a whole. AtariProtos.com Dragon Stomper Page http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/dragonstomper/dragonstomper.htm…
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S2:E8 The Exact Moment Nintendo Won the Video Game War
The Exact Moment Nintendo Won The Video game War (A Short, Left Handed Episode) In this short summer bonus episode, Steve explores what he thinks is the exact moment Nintendo beat everyone and and won the video game war. I imagine, it’s not exactly what you expect. The Into The…
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S2:E7 Emits a shower of Sparks: Pele’s Soccer
Into the Vertical Blank: Generation Atari – Season 2 Episode 7 : Emits a shower of sparks: How we stopped playing soccer and started playing Atari (along with Pele) In this episode, Steve and Jeff cover Pele’s Soccer for the Atari 2600, and the cultural as well as business atmosphere…
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S2: E5 Electronic Games Magazine
In this episode of Into The Vertical Blank: Generation Atari, Steve and Jeff celebrate the magazine that started it all. The first publication in the USA that was strictly devoted to video and electronic games, Electronic Games Magazine. The brothers bring you two stories of thos glories magazine, each featuring…
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Toys R Us at (up to) 40% Liquidation – treasure hunt
Steve and I took on a field trip to record part of the Into the Vertical Blank: Growing Up Atari podcast, so say goof bye to Toys R Us, and explain what role it played in being an Atari fan in the last 80’st It was a pretty disappointing sale,…
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