Category: Videos
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Countdown! Atari ST Action Platform Run and Gun Top: 50 Part 3: Numbers 30-21
In this series we are exploring and continuing to countdown the 50 best scrolling platform games on the Atari ST that use guns as their primary weapon. Even if a game contains no platforms other than the ground, we are still going to consider it for this list. Some of…
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107: Overscan: Is it possible to be bored in 2024? + Retro News!
Into the veritable blank Weekly Overscan : Our new Weekly Retro / Classic gaming and nostalgia show Coming up next: ITVB – Retro – Overscan. Featuring This weeks possibly below the radar retro and classic gaming news as well as the discussion topic is it possible to really be bored…
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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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Top 50 Atari ST Side Scroll Action Platform Shooters Part 2 Games 40-31
In this series we will explore and count down the top 50 scrolling #actionplatformer games on the #atari ST that use guns as their primary weapon. These are many times called #runandgun games. If a game contains no platforms other than the ground, we are still going to consider it…
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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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Top 50 Atari ST Side Scroll Platform Shooters Part 1 numbers 50-41
Top 50 Atari ST Side Scroll Platform Shooters Part 1 numbers 50-41 Coming up next! In this series we will explore and count down the top 50 scrolling platform games on the Atari ST that use guns as their primary weapon. Even if a game contains no platforms other than…
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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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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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Atari ST Goes MAGNUM! Ocean’s 4-Hit Game Multi-Disk Pack!
We use Cyberlink 365 Video, Photo and Audio Software Magnum 4 is a 1990 Ocean game compilation released for the Atari ST. We excitedly purchased this pack in 1990 from an import shop here in California, but as we did mostly in the late 80’s and 90’s got rid of…
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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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Atari ST Vertical Flying Shooters Part 4 1990 and 91
Atari ST Vertical Flying Shooters Part 4 1990 and 91 The history of Atari ST Vertical Shooters Part 4 1990 and 1991: The Post Arcade Era In part 4, we take a look at all of the best vertical flying shooters to arrive on the Atari ST in 1990 and…
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Atari ST: The Tengen Trilogy. Crack the seal!
Tengen made games for Atari home systems and not just Nintendo unlicensed games? Find out about three of the best as we explore 1990’s Tengen Trilogy The Tengen Trilogy is a UK Only 1990 release for the Atari ST, Amiga, Zed X Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. We will be focusing…
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Atari ST The 16-Bit hit Machine. 4 Gremlin All-Out Classics
Atari ST The 16-Bit hit Machine. 4 Gremlin All-Out Classics Join me as we check out the Gremlin Atari ST 16 bit hit machine compilation from 1990 and try to see if it really does contain hits or was this a parade of budget bin wannabees?The games this time are…
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Atari ST LOG Magazine #2 May 1986: An Action RPG Point and Click and More
Podcast Version Notes: ST LOg#2 is Available at Atari Maniia http://www.atarimania.com/atari-magazine-st-log_83.html All music, audio/ video production. writing and game play by #JeffFulton and or #SteveFulton unless otherwise noted. (c)8bitrocket Studios # Atari #IntoTheVerticalBlank #Generation AtariTheme by Brian Travis T2k by Tony Longworth: https://www.patreon.com/tonylongworth Title: Into The Vertical Blank theme Words &…
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