Category: Videos
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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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Video: Let’s Play Atari STE Upgraded Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge (2021)
Lotus STE is an adaptation of the original Lotus 1 game that makes use of the additional hardware in the Atari STE. Put simply, it’s a major graphics and sound upgrade from the original game! New Programming: Thomas, Jonathan [Chicane] New Sound FX and Mixing: Jamie [Junosix] Atari mania Page…
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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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XEGS Carts that Should Have been Vol 2
Games: Operation Blood, Pondering About Max, Mission Shark, The Brundles Volume 1: https://atomic-temporary-177246833.wpcomstaging.com/2020/11/29/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. Other companies, Including Atari, nut mostly mainland Europeans in Germany and Poland…
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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: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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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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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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Atari ST / STE / Mega STE Activision Game Reviews Vol 2: From Galaxy Force 2 to R-Type 2
Atari ST / STE (8mhz) and Mega STE (16mhz) Activision Game Reviews: Action / Arcade Games. In this series we will cover game play and capsule reviews and scores for Activison UK Arcade and Action Games Galaxy Force II (ST 8MHZ) – 80% – Ambitions fun blaster that is a…
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Into the Vertical Blank: Generation Atari S3:E23 Companion Video
In this video we investigate of the games that we discussed in the episode: S3:E23: Why We Are Thankful for STOS: The Game Creator In every episode we discuss games from across multiple systems, they may not be the main game or subject discussed, but they do deserve to have…
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Compile Me Baby! Dedicated to the 2005-2010 Indie Flash Game Underground!
Compile Me Baby! Dedicated to the 2005-2010 Indie Flash Game Underground! To all those that were through through the Mochi and Flash Game License Years. WE salute you.
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Atari 400/800 8bit computer games released by Atari in 1981
By Jeff Fulton (8bitjeff) Atari 400/800 8bit computer games released by Atari in 1981. Atari was still not on board with the 400/800 as entertainment machines (mostly because of cost), so only 4 titles were released, 3 arcade conversions and an Atari Program Exchange edu-tainment title. Games in this video…
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Atari 400/800 8-bit Games From 1980
[iframe width=”480″ height=”360″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/h2dM3wjEqF0″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen][/iframe] Most of these games were hold over releases from the 8-bit computer launch in 1979. Some might have been finished in 1979 but were not available until 1980. Includes the unreleased demo of “Saucer”. Check out the links to the AtariMania.com pages for these…
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Video: Atari 8-bit Computer Games From 1979
[iframe width=”480″ height=”360″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/cwbwM-J31Pk” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen][/iframe] When Atari released the 400 and 800 computers in 1979, they were afraid they would not be taken seriously, so they did not emphasized the game playing ability of their machines. These first five games (Basketball, 3D Tic Tac Toe Video Easel,…
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Top 10 “Other” Ways To Punish A Laptop Computer (Besides Shooting It 8 Times) (Video)
By Steve Fulton [iframe width=”550″ height=”440″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/OugrYsr7pOA” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen][/iframe] A few weeks ago we saw a video of a guy punishing a Windows laptop by shooting it with 8 hallow point bullets. Now while we are all for punishing Windows laptops (they certainly punish us all day long), we think…
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We Use Xtra Normal To Make A Sub-Par Video About Flash Games And Intellectual Property
[iframe width=”560″ height=”345″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/SkCIMxqATwI” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen] Here is our first attempt at using xtranormal to make a video. This was obviously inspired by this video we posted a couple weeks ago.
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“Yes On 21” Video Contest Entry
This is little off-topic diatribe for a Sunday Morning. My wife and I created a video entry for a “Yes On 21 Video contest“. Proposition 21 is a California State initiative to help save the nearly 300 state parks in the state that are threatening with closure if money can’t…
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8bitrocket.com Video Podcast Returns!!
The 8bitrocket.com Video Podcast Returns!! We cover the new 8bitrocket.com, The Game Ray Quest, the Flash version of The Great Giana Sisters, the Flash game Chain the pixel, plus the retro music stylings of The Icarus Kid!
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What Does A $49.99 Safe And Sane Firework Look Like?
I bought a single firework this year for $49.99. Ever wonder what one of those looks like when fired? Here is your chance to *not* spend $49.99 next year. To be honest, this was far better than all the other fireworks we bought, combined (most lasted less than 10 seconds)…but…
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The Essential Guide To Flash Games: The Infomerical
I believe this speaks for itself.
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Down The Road – Before The Corruption: An Overly Sentimental 40th Birthday 8mm Film Retrospective.
Down The Road – Before The Corruption: An Overly Sentimental 40th Birthday (today) 8mm Film Retrospective. This video includes 8mm film of us (twins Steve and Jeff Fulton from 8bitrocket.com) from 1970-1983. All the time before we were “corrupted” by getting our own Atari 800 computer or discovering the rock…
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8bitrocket.com Games Demo Reel: 70 games in 3.5 minutes.
After making the last video podcast, the most enjoyable part turned out to be capturing video of some of our games. Taking that lead, we created this new “demo reel” with game play video from just about 70 games in 3.5 minutes, most of which have never seen the light…
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8bitrocket.com Video Podcast-Essential Flash Game Book Games Preview
8bitrocket.com Video Podcast-Halloween Edition. In this edition we preview the games from our forth coming Flash game development book, Essential Flash Games. You actually see them in action. We also learned to use a screen capture utility and the results are…mediocre as always. Hey, but it’s getting better. Also, check…
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Compile me Baby – A musical tribute to genius of Flash Develop
Compile me Baby – A musical tribute to genius of Flash Develop Ok, so hear me out. I’m a little strange, there is no real way to deny it, but I was also really bored. Last night was my final night in the hotel and I will finally be back…
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8bitrocket Micro Chip Maze Game Engine released
8bitrocket Micro Chip Maze Game Engine released The Micro Chip Maze engine is an xml and tile sheet based pacman style game engine that can easily be re-configured and re-skinned for any site, brand or other use. It has been built in AS3 using the latest bitmapdata techniques, so the…
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