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Making Sense of THE 800XL By Retro Games and Atari: Atari Now!
On the Latest The Atari Now!, we discuss the details, and the good bad and ugly of the newly announced #The800XL by #Atari and Retro Games. Plus we detail what should be added right away and more. #atari8bit #atari800 #atarixl #atari800XL Full Video Version Audio Version #165:Making Sense of THE…
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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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The Art Of Vintage Computing (At VCF So. Cal. 2026)
My twin brother Jeff could not make it down the VCF So Cal 2026 this year, so I made the video above to show him what it was all about. This is an edited version of the video script with more detail and credits. (Hotel Ferra) I wish my…
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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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People, Not Things: The Enigma Of Chris Crawford
By Steve Fulton I’ve always been a fan of Chris Crawford.To me he is probably one of the first “indie” developers, even though he spent some time inside the corporate walls of Atari Inc. Crawford has often worked in the margins on experiences that are, in a word, “different” –: …
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What is Expedition BS + Curse is Oak Oak Island s3 e18: Norse and Templar BS
Hi, this Jeff from 8bitrocket Studios and today we launch the next channel in our slowly growing stable of entertainment, Expedition Bulshit, which will be called expedition BS from here after in this video. Our goal here is to discuss, review and critique paranormal based media, starting off with The…
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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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s5:e3 Xenon 2 and the Atari ST Halcyon Days of 1989 Part 1
s5:e3 Xenon 2 and the Atari ST Halcyon Days of 1989 Part 1 Steve and Jeff are joined by Tony Longworth to discuss Xenon 2: Megablast for the Atari ST, in the first of a multi-part series on 1989 Atari ST games Part 2 will be be a discussion of…
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Album Review: COLOURSØUND II
COLOURSØUND II Review by Steve Fulton and Jeff Fulton We will come out and say it right now: COLOURSØUND II is a dark, challenging and heavy record. It’s obvious that the band was not satisfied with repeating themselves, but instead pushed the boundaries of what a combination of The Alarm…
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The Journey Begins
Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton
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S2:E16 Finale: The Best Atari Christmas Ever
The Season 2 finale of Into The Vertical Blank. In this episode we pull out all the stops and explain exactly why Atari means so much to us. This honest, naked, all-cards-on-the-table, frank episode includes an Eponymous Story named “The Best #*@! Christmas Ever” that tells all. There is also…
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S2:E10: Playing Outside in Generation X
To salute the end of summer, w e are re-running a story from last season named “Big Mouse And Little Mouse” that has been updated, expanded and remastered. This is a story about the type of imaginative play that occurs when kids are trying to discover the world. This was…
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S2:E6: Why We Collect Atari
In this episode, Steve and Jeff have a frank discussion about what they collect and why they collect Atari. Also includes a couple segments from Steve’s “Fultonbot’s Atari Quest” blog series, as well as an impromptu live remote visit to their favorite retro game store. Stories from the podcast:
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S1:E4: Escape To The Asteroids Zone :Part 1
Into The Vertical Blank: Generation Atari Season 1, Episode 4: Escape To The Asteroids Zone : Part 1 Into The Vertical Blank: Generation Atari Season 1, Episode 4: Escape To The Asteroids Zone Part 1. In Part One of our two-part extravaganza, we delve into the that game forms the…
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Pac-Man, Electronic Games Magazine, And The Exact Moment Atari Lost The Video Game War
Note: As I discover the 120 or so games on my list of “lost” VCS games from the 80’s, I will spend some time discussing the ones that, in one way or another, mean something significant to me. This is one of those stories. “It’s disappointingly difficult to…
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8bitrocket Retro-Game And DIY Game Development News Update
New Book About Atari 8-Bit computers! A new book, Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation by veteran tech writer Jamie Lendino was released last week by Ziff Davis. The book looks mighty interesting, but so far there is no news about the actual contents. We here at…
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De-Motivational Engineering Problem Solving Worksheet from 1989 applies now more than ever
(warning, some adult language is in this post) By Jeff Fulton (8bitjeff) When my dad left his job at Hughes Aircraft in 1989, he gave my brother, Steve, and I a lot of advice and a whole bunch of de-motivational type stuff that had been hanging around his office. We…
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Ballad Of Atari: 1982-1984
Ballad Of Atari: 1982 E.T. And Pac-Man Not The Worst, Yet Not The Best The Gamers Notice Ballad Of Atari: 1983 800XL Flag Ship. Work Horse. All That Jazz. Cliches Of Awesome Ballad Of Atari: 1984 GCC designs The 7800 Last ditch hope for…
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Ballad Of Atari: 1981
Ballad Of Atari: 1981 (part 1) Never Ending Walls Fall Down To My Bouncing Ball In Super Breakout Ballad Of Atari: 1981(part 2) Ugly Garden Gnome Hides Within The Mushroom Field Shoots Gross Insects Dead
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Linkstorm!: 8bitrocket Retro Gaming News Update
IDW To Release Atari Themed Board Games IDW Games, designers and distributors of a multitude of games (including the magnificent The Game) have signed a deal to create board games based on Atari properties. The first will be Centipede in September 2017, followed Asteroids and Missile Command. The games…
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Ballad Of Atari: 1980
Ballad Of Atari: 1980 (part 1) VCS Breaks Through Sales Sky Rocket With Space Invaders Cartridge Ballad Of Atari: 1980 (part 2) Atari Is The Fastest Growing Company Ever Recorded
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Linkstorm!: 8bitrocket’s Retro Gaming News (Updated!)
Atari Box Art Finally Being Recognized Atari VCS box-art is very close to our hearts here at 8bitrocket.com. The recent book, Art Of Atari made it even more-so (see review on this site soon). Now The Onion AV club has a new column named Art Of the Game by…
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Ballad Of Atari: 1979
Ballad Of Atari: 1979 (part 1) Rocks Floating In Space Insert Coin To Shoot. Collects Quarters By The Ton Ballad Of Atari: 1979 (part 1) The Four Horseman Of David, Larry Bob, Alan Form Activision Competition Sows The Seeds Of Apocalypse For Atari Inc.
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Ballad Of Atari: 1977-1978
Ballad Of Atari: 1977 TIA, RIOT and 6507. VCS Changes Everything Ballad Of Atari: 1978 A Board Room Showdown Bushnell Booted By Gerard Welcome Ray Kassar
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Ballad Of Atari: 1975-1976
Ballad Of Atari: 1975 LSI Home Pong A Chip Off The Coin-Op Block Sporting Goods For Nerds Ballad Of Atari: 1976 Warner Buys Into VCS promise. Bushnell Starts Thinking: “Pizza?”
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Listen Kids, This Job Won’t Exist When You’re My Age
The airline pilot was absolutely killing it. I was standing in the back of the room, waiting for my turn, and thinking ‘I have gone about this all wrong‘. The pilot had all the 2nd graders gathered around his computer, as he talked in commanding, excited tones about take offs,…
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Flashback Post! Review of PS2 Activision Anthology (2003)
Activision Anthology PS2 By Steve Fulton For A Change, Nostalgia Is Done The Right Way…But Will your Kids Care? The name “Activision” means more to me than it rightly should, and far too much than I can ever admit to my wife. To me at age 11, the fab-four were “David Crane,…
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Linkstorm! 01/17/2017 : 8bitrocket Retro Gaming News Update
News The Nintendo Switch will be released March 1st. No word on the Virtual Console transfers or whether we will have to buy our classic games again…for the 3rd time in a row. Appropriately, NintendoAge has a ton of threads about it. DIY/Maker Gaming Adafruit: World’s Largest Vertical Maze Illuminated…
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Viva Amiga: The Story Of A Beautiful Machine Documentary Now Available
“Amiga users make Macintosh users look like IBM users” -Viva Amiga Trailer After a successful Kickstarter campaign, the documentary “Viva Amiga” was released last week and it looks amazing (see trailer below). We will have our review after we had watched the movie and had time to digest the whole…
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Linkstorm: Jan. 9, 2017 : New/Improved Retro Gaming News Update Now With C.E.S.!
News CES 2017 took place last week/weekend. Not a lot there any more for retro gamers. Certainly not if you recall the CES conventions of old, when all the video game manufacturers would display their wares. Mistly it was AR/VR innovations, drones, etc. However, we did see a couple,…
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The Exact Moment Nintendo Won The Video Game War: Feb 12th, 1985
( Since we are relaunching the site, we are periodically identifying stories we published during our “dark periond” from 2012 through 2016. This was re-posted from October 11, 2014) February 12th, 1985. That’s the day Nintendo won everything. It was the day the 2nd to last issue of Electronic Games…
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RetroPie Tip: Network Discovery From Your Windows 10 Computer
This is a very simple tip, but also something that baffled me for a very long time. When I first installed my RetroPie, my Windows 10 machine automatically found it on the network and allowed me to see the file system. However, after running for a few hours, it…
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Linkstorm Jan. 2, 2017: 8bitrocket Retro Gaming News Update
News The Making Of Activision Frostbite for the Atari 2600 on RetroGamer.net The Making Of Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back for the Atari 2600 on RetroGamer.net DIY/Maker Gaming Smile Game Maker gets a VR Mode Products Armchair Arcade reviews the Pac-Man LED Desk Clock Goofy Foot An Alternative NES Controller…
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Some Fireworks To Salute The End of 2016!
Thank God 2016 is Over! Here is a video of $49.99 safe and sane firework I bought for the 4th of July in 2010. Now let’s hope we don’t need to do this again to salute the end of 2017.
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8bitrocket.com New Year’s Resolutions
Play games with my family more often Spend less time on social media sites Spend less time worried about “likes” and spend more time giving “hugs” When playing retro games, savor each one. Find the best way to recreate the experience of playing the game back-in-day, and less time trying to…
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“…and The Kitchen Is Stocked With Free Beer And Snacks!” : A Short One Act Play
Setting: Snack room in an anonymous pre-IPO start-up software firm. Boxes of candy bars and chips line a large, round table in the middle of the room. An industrial sized refrigerator with a glass door is off to one side, stocked with soda, water, and even beer. The walls…
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Linkstorm Dec. 29, 2016 : 8bitrocket Retro Gaming News Update
News Retronauts Get Serious: Jeremy at Retronauts said last week “I’d like to try and turn Retronauts into a true and proper venture”. We wish them all all the luck in the world. One of our favorite developers, Chris Sawyer served as producer for the rel-release of his classic PC…
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R.I.P. Carrie Fisher
Carrie Fisher died today at age 60. I’m currently reading her 2nd autobiography, The Princess Diarist which I started a few weeks ago. as well as being Princess Leia, she was a very funny and talented writer. I will review her book here as soon as I have finished it.…
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Atari Flashback Portable Game Player: Review
I’ve been waiting for a device like the AtGames Atari Flashback Portable Game Player for many many years. I’ve always dreamed of holding a mini-Atari 2600 in my hands, and playing all my favorite VCS games from the early 1980’s While I’ve had emulated game collections for the the…
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The Wild Gunman (1976)
“A gun is never empty” my dad told me. He was looking straight at me. He was looking into my eyes. He had never done that before. That I could recall any way. “A gun is always loaded” he repeated, changing the words slightly but not the meaning. It…
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Excerpt From The Diary Of An Atari Nerd
Note: Here is a piece of creative non-fiction. I’ve changed the names, and compacted some events, but everything is true that happened. I’ve been toying with the idea of creating a fictionalized diary based on real events for a long time. The article in the last section is the real…
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Atari Vault : Multi-Player Breathes New Life Into Age-Old Games
I spent much of last weekend attempting to get a multi-player games started with someone, anyone, on the internet. It was not a game of Star Wars Battlefront, or Words With Friends, or even Clash Royale. It was a game of Atari 2600/VCS Basic Math. Let me back-up a bit. Basic…
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Old Crap From My Attic: Atari and Sega Extravaganza!
Old Crap From My Attic: Atari and Sega Extravaganza: Atari 400/400/xl/xe, Atari Lynx, Sega Game Gear storage space win! Well, not exactly from my attic, but from my garage this time, and not exactly from there, but from my brother…oh, just forget where it came from and bask in it’s glory……
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The Dead Lexicon Of Classic Video Games (Ver. 1.1)
by fultonbot-Version 1.1 At the beginning of of the video game era, gaming nomenclature was yet to be coined. This is our first look into the fascinating world of “The Dead Lexicon Of Classic Video Games. The editors and writers of magazines like Electronic Games created much of the…
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Top-10 Classic Video Game Magazine Christmas Ads, Covers, & Content
By Steve Fulton Some of these are good, some are terrible, but all of them are memorable. Here is a run down my favorite Christmas content from classic gaming and computer magazines like Electronic Games, Joystik, Electronic Fun and Atari Connection. #10 Subscription Pleas Every magazine contains advertisements…
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Atari Nerd Chronicles: 1982-1983: Computer Lab
Note: I’ve been writing these little stories on the internet for the better part of the last decade. Out of my entire close and extended family, only a very few have taken the time to read them. One of those people was my Uncle Richard. My mom’s brother,…
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What Video Game Journalists In 2014 Could Learn From Electronic Games Magazine in 1983: Standards
Note: In the light of some more recent events in the gaming world, this seems even more relevant today than when I posted it in 2011. So here it goes again. I was looking through my old copies of Electronic Games, and I happened upon an editorial by Arnie Katz…
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BASIC 50th Anniversary: Riding An 8-bit Rocket
I was 9 years old when I first touched the keyboard of an Apple II computer. It was 1979, and I was visiting my friend Eric’s house. Eric’s dad was a computer engineer at Hughes Aircraft, and he was the first person I ever knew who owned his own…
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Celebrate the Web’s 25th Anniversary with O’Reilly – 50% off all Web Dev e-books
So you have been waiting to get your hot little hands on a new bo0k to compete in the emerging market for web and HTML5 (for mobile and web). O’Reilly makes it easier today with 50% all e-books related to web development in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the…
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Outpost 2 is quite simply the best free web game ever created!
By Jeff Fulton (8bitjeff) A couple old buddies of mine from the UK and Germany have created what I consider to be quite simply the best free Web game ever created. It’s a retro-style top-down shooter / adventure game. Think Half Life if viewed from above. And you have an…
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Resetting what appears to be a dead Garmin Forerunner 210
Resetting what appears to be a dead Garmin Forerunner 210 (works for 110 also) The Garmin Forerunner 210 is a great little device that allows for both Satellite GPS distance tracking and heart rate monitoring at he same time. As well as a host of other features this is one…
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RETRO: The Multi-Format, Throw-Back Video Game Magazine : Kickstarter
[iframe frameborder=”0″ height=”380″ scrolling=”no” src=”http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/socalmike/retro-the-multi-format-throw-back-video-game-magaz/widget/card.html” width=”220″][/iframe] We here at 8bitrocket.com are huge fans of the UK based Retro-Gamer Magazine. It is the one bright spot on the physical magazine landscape that is otherwise a dried-up and dust bowl of screaming previews and AAA me-too shouting. We need more…
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Enthusiasts Plan Kickstarter Campaign To Buy Atari Assets And Run It Like It’s 1977 All Over Again
The current company that holds the Atari brand and assets is filing for bankruptcy and planning to sell everything to the highest bidder That fact is not as much news as an update to the “when will Atari go bankrupt again” section of the Atari entry on Wikipedia. What…
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Xbox 360 Internet Explorer Plays HTML5 Games…But Not Flash
This morning I work up early to download the new Xbox Live update that includes Internet Explorer. My goal was to try out some of our HTML5 Canvas game experiments to see is they work on the new I.E for the Xbox. To my surprise, they work fairly well.…
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In His Latest Column, Bob Cringley Finally Tackles The Current State Of I.T.
Bob Cringley has finally done it. He has finally written a column that tries to tackle the current sad state of corporate IT. You have to read until the end, but in a single paragraph he crystalizes the issue: “Against this we have a cadre of IT workers who have…
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Producto Studios Video for GE.
Over at Producto Studios, we are doing far more than just making it into the semi-finals of the Pong Developer Challenge. Here’s a fun cartoon we just wrapped up working with our buddy Michael Bly and his new studio Balihoo Productions. It’s a timeline on the history of gas pumps…
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*New Book Celebrates Atari For It’s 40th Anniversary*
(Atari Book Press Release) Authors tell the fun and inspirational stories behind the iconic founding brand of the video game industry. New York, June 27th, 2012 — Today, people ask, “Do you play video games?” but in the 70’s and 80’s, people asked, “Do you play ATARI?” The video game…
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I Wish I Had Made That! Dragon Fantasy From Muteki Corp
Dragon Fantasy This is a new column named “I Wish I Had Made That!” where we explore games that are so close to our hearts, that we wish we had made them ourselves. In fact, most will be games that we started and never finished, and someone has beaten us…
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Memorial Day Tribute To The Uncle I Never Knew : PFC John Fulton Jr. KIA 10/24/44
When I was little my dad told me a single story about World War II. He told no stories about his time in the army other than this single story. It was about the day he knew he was going to die. He was in Italy in 1945 serving with…
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Atari Pong Developer Challenge Inspiration: Pong In The Wild At The Redondo Beach Fun Factory
Today I took my daughter to the last remaining arcade from my youth, the Redondo Beach Fun Factory. I wanted to give her a chance to ride some of the vintage electro-mechanical vehicles in the establishment before they all disappear. While we were there, I went looking for an…
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Atari Announces Intriguing “Circus Atari” App for iOS
Atari announced that tomorrow, a free iOS app named Circus Atari” will be available in the App Store. The original Circus Atari for the Atari 2600 was compelling game that blended physics and Breakout. It was one of the best 2600 games of all time. [iframe width=”480″ height=”360″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/zGNAA9_8-EY” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen][/iframe]…
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Not Flash! : The Angsty Zeitgeist Of HTML5 Technology Burnout
More than two years ago we started taking a close look at the HTML5. To us, the HTML5 features like <canvas>, <audio>, and <video> were the most compelling part of the HTML5 spec because they were poised to be a true replacements for Flash. Flash had been our tool…
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Atari Pong Developer Challenge Inspiration Video #1
Here is a video we created to help inspire our team while we work on our entry for the semi-final round of the Atari Pong Developer Challenge. We used a classic Atari color cycling Fuji symbol (of our own design) with images of some of Atari’s early Pong coin…
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Flash Professional CS6 Includes Sprite Sheet Generator
Wow. It seems like just a few years ago, we here at 8bitrocket.com were the only ones talking about using sprite sheets with Flash, and now Adobe has embraced the idea, adding support to export Flash animations as sprite sheets. This is a GREAT feature that will help keep Flash…
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Randomness: The Best Cartoon ever Made: Feed The Kitty (now on youtube.com)
[iframe width=”480″ height=”360″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/VTorphrBlPY” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen][/iframe] This doesn’t look like it was posted by a legit source, so enjoy it while you can.
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The incredible story of Atari 2600 Star Castle
By Jeff Fulton Star Castle was one of thee very first arcade games that Steve and I (along with Eric Barth) became addicted to in the early 1980’s. There was a simplicity to the design and the objective that made it as addicting as any other game made in the…
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Semifinals, Here We Come! Producto Studios Makes It Into The Next Round Of The Atari Pong Developer Challenge!
By Steve Fulton Atari announced the semifinalists for their Pong Developer Challenge today, and Producto/8bitrocket Studios made the cut! Now we have to actually make the game we designed. I can’t wait to get started!
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Atari Pong Developer Challenge Semi Finalist Announcement Postponed A Week
According to Pocket Gamer, Atari is overwhelmed with entries (87 in all) so they are delaying the announcement of the semi-finalists until May 1st. This gives me an extra week to formulate bizarre Atari dreams and worry myself sick before we hear the news. With 87 ideas floating…
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Death, Disappointment And Pong Dreams : The Atari Pong Developer Challenge Is Getting Into My Head
Tomorrow, Atari announces the semi-finalists in their Pong Developer Challenge. I had planned to create a demo for the contest, but instead, got sucked into writing a design document that took me the better part of a week, and the demo never materialized. I felt really good about it,…
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Don’t Miss Lost Cast: HTML5 Game Development Podcast
I just found out about this today: Lost Cast: HTML5 Game Development Podcast from the guys over at Lost Decade Games. They have been creating podcasts since last November, and so far they are really good! You should go check them out.
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Amazing Atari Research Images From 1982 That Predicted The Future
By Steve Fulton In 1982, during the halcyon days of the original Atari, Bob Stein worked with pioneering computer scientist Alan Kaye in the Atari Advanced Research Labs. One of their projects was to imagine the future of encyclopedias. In a set of incredible images from 30 years…
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Atari Pong Developer Challenge: Challenge Met! How About you?
I worked all weekend on our submission for the Atari Pong Developer Challenge, and just submitted it a few minutes ago Even though there were complaints from some people about the terms and conditions for the contest, ultimately we decided it would be a fun and challenging project to tackle.…
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Web/Mobile/Mobile Web Game Development Survey : Hype vs. Reality : Help Us Sort It Out
By Steve Fulton [iframe src=”https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dHE0VkNLd1NZV0F4OUxINWhWbGhna1E6MQ” width=”665″ height=”2000″ frameborder=”0″ marginheight=”0″ marginwidth=”0″]Loading…[/iframe]
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8bitrocket.com April 2012 HTML5 Game Development Poll Results Infographic (updated)
By Jeff Fulton Our HTML5 Game Development Poll Results are in! With had a huge response, so thank you very much. The poll confirms to us that more and more new developers are planning to use HTML5 this year and that the HTML5 Canvas and related technologies are the…
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Ace’s (The Super Villain) InterWeb Mash-up Special Edition #2
ASV Interwebs, Go! (I’m already starting to see why you stopped doing this every week) Abobo – http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/587787 – A gargantuan NES tribute parody with classic NewGroundsian sarcasm, hyperbole and violence. Abobo is supposedly an NES character who was never allowed to exist because he was too violent and ridiculous.…
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Adobe Working With CreateJS (Grant Skinner) To Let Flash CS6.0 Export To HTML5 Canvas
By Steve Fulton We found out about Grant Skinner’s CreateJS project a few weeks ago, and were instantly excited to start writing about it for the second edition of HTML5 Canvas. The libraries he is helping to create will go a long way to help make Canvas development…
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Adobe To Charge Developers Per Centimeter Of ActionScript Code
Coming on the heels of Adobe’s Premium Features for Flash (developers will be required to pay Adobe 9% of revenue above $50,000 if they use certain high-tech features), comes a new, upcoming feature for Adobe flash CS6.0 : Metered Usage For ActionScript. Announced today, Adobe will start charging developers per…
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Google 8-bit Quest Maps For April Fools Are So Awesome I Want Them To Stay Forever
Google’s April Fools “joke” this year is an 8-bit looking map style for Google Maps. Not only does it look great, but I could so easily see myself traveling around on these things, killing monsters on my quest to be the Avatar. In fact, Google should hire Lord British…
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Ace’s (The Super Villain) InterWeb Mash-up Special Edition
I have been meaning to start these up again and cover the world of games, retro, etc, but time has not been on my side. Ace SV is filling the gap though and sent this over today. Dragon Age – but in Flash with hexagons. If you’ve played or seen…
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Flash Premium Features: Adobe Wants Some “Zynga Money”, But Probably Not Yours
By Steve Fulton Adobe announced yesterday a set of “Premium Features” for Flash. These are features that, when used for web games, will require a license fee after a certain threshold of revenue has been reached (currently $50K) After that, they want their “tribute” in the form of a slice…
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HTML5 Game Development Survey
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FlashFireBug Rocks The His-house!
Last year when I was doing Facebook game development (and hating life) for a large, monstrous gaming company, we had a lot of trouble getting the Firefox Flash plug-in for FireBug to work correctly and show internal trace’s exceptions, etc. So, I never used it. This last Friday,…
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Journey Out Of An Abyss: How My Rejected Cracked.com Photoplasty Images About Classic Video Games Changed My Life
Last year I joined the cracked.com forums. Cracked.com is one of the best humor sites on the interban, and what’s really cool about the site is that they allow nearly anyone to join their author forums, and try to develop content for the site. There is no guarantee that…
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Ace The Super Villain Comes Out Strong With “FireArm”
Another day, and another encouraging sign of things getting back on track. Ace The Super Villain , One of our best and longest running readers has just finished a new game named “FireArm”, an impressive beat-em-up style game in Flash. You Can see it below. [iframe width=”480″ height=”360″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/R1eotggajX8″…
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Rush Hour Plus! Yes, Good Flash Shooters On The Web Are Still Being Produced!
We were just sent a link to this from our friends over at Sokay.net (Chris Rock and Bryson Whiteman)! Rush Hour Plus is a classic, pixelated shooter with power-ups and insane blasting action. The game made me happy today, which is no mean feat. Click below to play:…
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Richard Davey Speaks About The Reality of HTML5 Game Development
By Jeff Fulton Pro Flash game development veteran Richard Davey has a great article named “The Reality of HTML5 Game Development and making money from it” that you NEED to read right now. It’s an awesome overview of the an industry that is blowing up right now written by a…
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Ansca Corona Cross Platform Mobile Development: The Good, the Kind of Bad, and the Not So Ugly
By Jeff Fulton Ansca Corona For Cross-platform development At Producto Studios, we have just finished a large 5 month cross-platform (iPhone, iPad, Android phone, Android Tablet) project using Ansca Corona as the API and tool kit. Corona is not a drag and drop style app builder, but a robust, subscription-based API…
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Stuck trying to think of a mobile game idea? Try App-o-Tron.
By Jeff Fulton If you are stuck spinning your wheels, trying to think of the next “Angry Birds”, “Fruit Ninja”, or “Plants v. Zombies”, why not try the App-o-Tron mobile game idea generator. It couldn’t hurt and probably will come up with better ideas than 90% of the current games in…
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By Jeff Fulton With traditional game related magazines falling by the way-side every day, why would Retrogamer magazine still be going so strong after 100 issues? Somewhere around the middle of 2004, I was browsing the magazine shelf at the local (now itself defunct) Borders and I found a large yellow…
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Atari Vets “Getting The Band Back Together” To Rock Mobile Games Like’s It’s 1979 All Over Again
Denis Koble, Rich Adam, Ed Logg, Lyle Rains, Bruce Merritt, Tim Skelly, Owen R. Ruben, Ed Rotberg, Bob Smith, and Rob Zdydel are forming a game company named Innovative Leisure, and you should take notice. If you don’t know who those guys are, they are the designers, programmers, and masterminds…
