Category: Videos
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Phantasie Atari ST Complete Playthrough! Nearly 20 hours.
A complete playthrough of the Atari ST version of SSI Phantasie designed by Winston Douglas Wood and converted by Logical Design Works
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ST Show: You had it on the NES I had it on my Atari ST: Vol 1
Hi this is Jeff and welcome to The Latest Atari ST Show. Today we look at 9 games I had on my Atari ST and YOU most likely played on something else. Audio Podcast Version Castos INTV Ep 162 Website
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#161: Atari Now: Making Sense of Atari x Activision Packages
Atari has Licensed 39 games for physical release. We go through all of the confusing offerings and collections to make sense of what is on offer. Audio ONLY Version Video Version
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Atari ST Show Xtra: 30+ Platform Arcade Games (Single Screen)
This is a new Platform Library Archaeology series when we dig deep into the Atari ST game library from about 1985 until the present. This is just a research video, when we have looked at all of the single screen platform games for ST in the other categories, I will…
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ST Show xtra: Power Drift Atari ST vs STE vs Mega STE
Powerdrift was released into the arcade by sega in August of 1988 and then quickly ported the The Amiga, ST with an STe blitter upgrade built in, C64, Speccy, MSX, CPC. DOS, TG16 and finally the Sega Saturn 10 years later. It’s an odd cart style racing game with A…
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Atari 8bit Show Xtra: Homesoft Games Disk 304
Before we formally launch the #Atari8bit Show, I wanted to test my recording setup by making the first #Atari 8bit show Xtra by playing through and exploring the Homesoft games Disk 304. Games: Realsports Baseball Patent Pole Position Patrol XAL Alpha As you Like it, Satellite, Fuzzy, Bats! Bats! Bats!…
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Atari ST Show #4: Does the Mega STE Fix Fix it?
#atari #atarist #atarimegaste #AtomicRobokid #BloodMoney #Darius #BlackHornet #dragonspirit Today I will test 5 AtariST Games and answer the question “Will the Mega STE Fix it?!” Atari ST Show #4: Does the Mega STE Fix Fix it?
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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…










