Category: Atari

  • If I Won The Lottery I’d Open An Atari Store

    If I won the lottery, I mean like $100,000,000 lottery, I would open an Atari Store. It would be in some kind of upscale mall or location  like Downtown Disney, Universal City Walk, The Beverly Center, The Grove, downtown San Francisco or Times Square The store would act just like…

  • Atari “Asteroids” Movie Director’s Quote

    In a recent interview with ComingSoon.net , the director of the upcoming Asteroids movie, Lorenzo di Bonaventura had this to say about the concept: “…we really went after a mythology on the level of “Star Wars.” We’ll see if we succeeded or not, but it’s not a simple like, the…

  • Spectacularly Nerdy 8bitrocket Computer Desk Circa 1992

    My sister just found this photo.  It’s Spectacularly nerdy.  It’s a photo of me (Steve) sitting at the “8bitrocket.com” computer desk (the desk Jeff and I shared in the bedroom we shared until we graduated from college).   I think the photo speaks for itself: Above you will notice the following:…

  • Steve Woita: An Original Atari 2600 Game Developer Tackles Flash Games, Speaks-Up About Flash And CGE 2010

    “ I feel like I’ve got more ideas for new types of games to build now then I did back then because there are so many great games to get inspired from now” – Steve Woita, March 9, 2010 If you know 8bitrocket.com then you know we love Flash games.…

  • Top-10 Alternative Ideas for The Universal “Asteroids” Movie

    Last week, Universal announced that they had won a “bidding war” for the rights to turn Atari’s Asteroids coin-op into a feature film. Almost immediately, game pundits  and art critics alike pounced on the news, and scoffed at the idea of a Hollywood version of Atari’s classic game. Many of…

  • The History of 8-bit Computer Games in The USA #1 : CGW Nov/Dec 1981

    The History of 8-bit Computer Games in The USA #1 : CGW Nov/Dec 1981 I never read Computer Gaming World Magazine when I should have. When I finally purchased a PC in 1992, I started to read it and kept doing so as a subscriber until it died late last…

  • ST Action Magazine Online! (Some at least) on Atarimania.com

    ST Action Magazine Online! (Some of at least) on Atarimania.com Back in 1988, one of the few places to get Atari ST or Amiga imported games (or any games for that matter) were in specialty shops such as Computer Games + in  Orange County, CA (well before Marissa, Ryan, Summer…

  • ST Amiga Format Magazine ONLINE (For real!!!)

    ST Amiga Format Magazine ONLINE (For real!!!) On the heels of yesterday’s find of ST Action scanned reviews on Atari Mania, I hopped over to wonderful Amiga Magazine Rack site to find that they have all of copies of the combined ST Amiga Format magazine scanned for your perusal. The…

  • When Golden Age Video Games “Wore The Leather Jacket”

    I’ve been reading Benjamin Nugent’s American Nerd lately.  One of the aspects of nerdom that he points out is the need for nerds to “coin phrases”.  Obviously, we at 8bitrocket.com have tried our share of this.  From “Midcore Gamer” (between “casual” and “hardcore”) to “vink” (virtual ink) we have attempted…

  • Atari Nerd Retro Inter-Web Mash up – May 7, 2009

    Atari Nerd Retro Inter-Web Mash up – May 7, 2009 What’s new (and old) in the world of Retro Atari consoles, computers, and what not. Atari 2600 – Play 50 Classic Atari 2600 games online, free (in java or emulated in java). – Retro Thing has a very cool article…

  • USB Enabled Classic Atari 2600 “Red Button” Joystick Announced Today!

    A new era for classic 8-bit retro gaming has arrived today! Curt Vendel over at Legacy engineering just clued-us-in today on his latest project that brings the classic era of the Atari 2600 to modern audiences.  Curt was instrumental in the development of the Atari Flashback 1 & 2 consoles…

  • 8bitrocket Retro Games Inter-web mash up:October 08, 2008

    8bitrocket Retro Games Inter-web mash up:October 08, 2008 The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Retro Game Fans. This time we cover new stuff on Recycled Gaming, Retro Thing, Classicgaming.com, Lemon64, Atari Mania, Lemon Amiga, c64audio, Atari Age, and RetroGamer. Recycled Gaming – A Super Mario 64…

  • Minus World’s Atari modern Classics

    I had this buried in the Mash-up yesterday, but it is so good that I felt the need to give it space of its own. Check out the Minus World array of modern games re-done with 2600 pixel art. ABSO-FRICKIN-LUTEY fantastic!

  • 8bitrocket Diatribe July 21, 2008: Air-Sea Battle Hour 1: Research and Plan

    So, I have decided to make a game like the Atari 2600 (and Arcade classic) Air-Sea battle. I don’t know if we ever owned this cart, but I am sure I played it many times. By the time Steve and I had a 2600, the games had improved well beyond…

  • Atari Movie Report: June 25 2008

    Today we start a regular column reporting all the news we can find about the upcoming Atari movie.   Today we have a great new interview with Nolan Bushnell from cbsnews.com : GameCore: During the early video game craze, was it true Hollywood actually pitched the idea of a Kramer vs. Kramer…

  • Web Round-Up. Cool Retro Gaming stuff on the web.

    If you are new to emulation, or just want to replace some old roms or emulators you have lost, Digital Press has a nice selection of older emulators and roms. This is one of the few places on the web where you can still find a section of roms for…