Official Atari game Manual for BREAKANOID

[Mr SQL]

BREAKANOID may be one of the few (perhaps the only?) new VCS releases that has an Official Atari game Manual - I would like to share it with Atari fans and discuss!

 

Having an Official Atari game Manual is really cool and I'm curious if there are any other homebrews or new releases, perhaps on one of the Flashback consoles that have one?

 

Here is the Official Atari game Manual used by Nolan Bushnell and The Champions of Pong :

 

BREAKANOID_Official_Atari_Manual.pdf

 

In addition to instructions, it covers the Atari Pong INDIE Developer Challenge and BREAKANOID testing guidelines for team Atari as well as setup instructions for installing a 2600 virtual machine on windows (Stella!) which is the platform where Nolan and The Champions of Pong played BREAKANOID.

 

BREAKANOID was the only entry in Atari's massive Pong Party to use a virtual machine for the Atari VCS Hardware. Nolan enjoyed it immensely and is sending me an engraved commemorative plaque for my office signed by him and The Champions of Pong, I will post a pic when I receive it; this is awesome - I think every programmer wants one of these!!!

 

For anyone interested, the VGC has a BREAKANOID review and all four games in the series are available here for $20 and come with a Level Editor for Windows that allows you to design new BREAKANOID games, and the rights to put one version on cart.

[mtshark7]

Thanks for sharing

[Mr SQL]

Thanks for sharing

You're welcome Mark, I hope it adds to the gaming experience!

 

I'm working on SCROLLANOID, the sequel to BREAKANOID but unfortunately it won't have an Official Atari Manual unless Atari has another Pong Party. It was great fun, I hope they do!!!