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 RetroBlast! has posted an interview with Curt Vendel of the Legacy Engineering Group regarding his development of the Classic USB Joystick Controller. The USB Joystick Controller is styled after the Atari CX-40 joystick and can be used with your favorite game emulators in Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. In the interview Curt discusses Legacy Engineering, his personal history with classic gaming, development of the USB joystick, his role in the Flashback 2.0 console for Atari, and more. Curt Vendel has been active in the classic gaming community for many years, and maintains a wealth of Atari-related information over at the Atari History Museum. You can read the complete interview here and read RetroBlast!'s review of the joystick here.
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 If you missed out on the first round of Skunkboards for the Atari Jaguar, Skunkboard developer Tursi has announced a reservation list for Revision 2 Skunkboards. The Skunkboard is a USB-based Jaguar development board containing flash RAM as well as the ability to upload to the Jaguar's onboard RAM. The Skunkboard allows Jaguar developers an inexpensive option for development and allows everyday Jaguar users to download and play homebrew Jaguar games (all homebrew formats are supported). The new revision 2 Skunkboard features 8MB of flash RAM over the 4MB contained in the earlier Skunkboard, adds Jaguar CD compatibility, and has a new snazzy look. The first batch of Skunkboards sold out in 72 hours, so be sure to reserve your Skunkboard now!
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 Peter Hirschberg, who previously created an open source port of the Atari 2600 game Adventure for Windows and Mac OS X titled Adventure: Revisited, has recently released Adventure for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Your goal in Adventure is to locate the Enchanted Chalice and return it to the Golden Castle, all while avoiding the three evil dragons determined to stop your progress! This version of Adventure is faithful to the original 2600 version, complete with sound. However, instead of using a joystick to move your character around, you tilt the screen appropriately (as done in several other iPhone games). To download Adventure for your iPhone or iPod Touch, please follow this link, which will bring you to game's page in the iTunes Store.
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 Issue #54 of the Retrogaming Times Monthly is now online. Highlights from the November 2008 issue include:- Doom - Old School Gamer Review
- Apple ][ Incider - Nightmare Gallery / Centipede
- Gametap Worth the Price?
You can find all these and more inside the Retrogaming Times Monthly, now running 134 months in a row! As always, you can browse through all the back issues of Retrogaming Times Monthly via their archives to get up to date.
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 A new issue of the 2600 Connection newsletter is now available. Articles in the November/December Issue (#96) include: - Box Varieties of 2600 Games
- Classic 80's Home Video Games
- Just Like The Real Arcade Game -- Phoenix, Pleiades
- Spotlight on Prototypes -- Universal Prototype 'H'
- Spotlight on Homebrews -- Alien Greed II
- Too Many Games Show Report
- Letters
- News & Notes
- Classified Ads
The 2600 Connection is a printed newsletter published bimonthly. To learn how to purchase this issue or buy a subscription, please visit the 2600 Connection website.
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 Those of you who keep tabs on the Atari 2600 homebrew scene may be familiar with Incoming! We first posted news about the game back in 2001, and author Ben Larson announced a final version of the game earlier this year. If you've ever played Artillery Duel on the 2600 (not to mention many similar games on various systems and computers over the years), then you'll be right at home with Incoming! Ben has addressed many of Artillery Duel's shortcomings with Incoming!, resulting in a much improved gameplay experience!
AtariAge and Ben Larson are sponsoring a contest to create original artwork for Incoming! This label artwork will appear on all copies of Incoming!, which will be released at the beginning of December in the AtariAge Store. This artwork will also be featured on the cover of the manual created for Incoming! You can learn more about the contest and what you need to do to enter here.
Submissions must be received by 11:59pm on November 16th, 2008!
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Issue #53 of the Retrogaming Times Monthly is now online. Highlights from the October 2008 issue include:- NES Realm - More from December 1988
- Apple ][ Incider - Hardball
- Who'd Win - Tengen Tetris vs. Nintendo Tetris
- Apple ][ - Mario Bros.
You can find all these and more inside the Retrogaming Times Monthly, now running 133 months in a row! As always, you can browse through all the back issues of Retrogaming Times Monthly via their archives to get up to date.
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 The Houston Area Arcade Group (HAAG) is holding their annual arcade expo on November 7th and 8th at the Crowne Plaza Houston Reliant Park hotel. Admission is $25 for a weekend pass or $15 for a single day, which gets you access to over 100 arcade games and pinball machines all set to free play! You can also participate in arcade and pinball tournaments, win door prizes, try your luck at a game raffle, and partake in the full bar. There aren't many opportunities to enjoy large collections of classic arcade games, so if you are in the Houston area (or can get there!), you should be at this expo! AtariAge is sponsoring the event, and we'll have a slew of classic gaming systems (Atari 2600, 5200, ColecoVision, Intellivision, etc.) setup for play! For more information, please visit ArcadeCenter.com.
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 Will you lead? Find the answer by travelling through the 20 tunnels of Lead, where you'll have to fire at incoming enemies, dodge deadly asteroids, scramble past menacing sentinels and catch wandering satellites to survive, and finally prove to yourself that you can do it.
Lead is a fast paced action game created by Simone Serra, whose first Atari 2600 homebrew release was the unique collection of puzzle and rhythm games in Sync. AtariAge and Simone Serra are sponsoring a contest to create original artwork for Simone's latest Atari 2600 homebrew. This label artwork will appear on all copies of Lead, which will be released at the beginning of December. This artwork will also be featured on the cover of the manual created for the game. You can learn more about the contest and how to enter here.
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Issue #52 of the Retrogaming Times Monthly is now online. Highlights from the September 2008 issue include:- NES'cade Gyruss
- NES Realm - December 1986
- Apple ][ Incider - The Apple ][ today - part 2 Summer Games
- Who'd Win - Altered Beat vs Golden Axe
- Old Wine in New Bottles: Midway Arcade Treasures 2 & 3
You can find all these and more inside the Retrogaming Times Monthly, now running 132 months in a row! We didn't report on the August issue, so if you missed that you can find it here. And as always, you can browse through all the back issues of Retrogaming Times Monthly via their archives to get up to date.
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A new issue of the 2600 Connection newsletter is now available. Articles in the Sep/Oct 2008 Issue (#95) include: - Paul Allen Newell - Interview
- Spotlight on Prototypes – Gamma-Attack
- Video Game Collector – Review
- Just Like The Real Arcade Game – Congo Bongo, Zaxxon - Reviews
- Easter Eggs – Towering Inferno, Actionauts
- Letters
- News & Notes
- Classified Ads
The 2600 Connection is a printed newsletter published bimonthly. To learn how to purchase this issue or buy a subscription, please visit the 2600 Connection website.
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 The 2008 Oklahoma Video Game Exposition (OVGE) is slated to take place Saturday, August 9th in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Atari, Coleco, Mattel, Nintendo, Sega and many more of your favorite classic gaming systems will once again rise from history in all their glory as the Marriott Tulsa Southern Hills Hotel hosts the fifth OVGE. The Oklahoma Video Game Exhibition is a gathering of collectors, video game enthusiasts, and vendors coming together to show, trade, buy, sell and have an incredible time! If you're a classic gaming fan and can get to the show, we highly recommend it! To learn more about the show, please visit the official Oklahoma Video Game Exposition web site.
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 The NorthWest Classic Games Enthusiasts (NWCGE), a Pacific NorthWest-based group dedicated to the
preservation and promotion of classic video games, is holding the 2008
Portland Retro Games Expo August 2nd and 3rd in Portland, Oregon. The Expo, now in its third year, brings together classic video game fans from across the NorthWest. Open to the public, it is an opportunity for nostalgic gamers to revisit their favorite video game systems of yore. The Retro Gaming Expo isn't just for collectors. Anyone with an interest in home video gaming will find something to enjoy. The expo will feature vendors and exhibitions of classic game consoles as well as contests and tournaments.
Complete information about the event, including location, admission, hours, and much more can be found at the Portland Retro Games Expo web site.
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Issue #50 of the Retrogaming Times Monthly is now online. Highlights from the July 2008 issue include:- Apple ][ Incider - Breaking Out
- NES'cade - Jackal
- Game Archeologist
- Who'd Win - Star Wars vs Star Trek
- Old Wine in New Bottles: SNK Arcade Classics 1
- Fun Arcade Games That Never Made it to My Arcade
- Real Life Games
You can find all these and more inside the Retrogaming Times Monthly, now running 130 months in a row! If you've missed any back issues, you can also look through their complete archives to get up to date.
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A new issue of the 2600 Connection newsletter is now available. Articles in the July/August 2008 Issue (#94) include:- Rob Fulop’s Actionauts - review
- Spotlight on Homebrews – Colony 7, Squish ‘em, Bee-Ball, Melbourne Tatty, Sync
- Just Like The Real Arcade Game – Pengo, Tac/Scan - reviews
- Inside The 2600 – programmimg article
- The 10 Best Atari 2600 Games - opinion
- Letters
- News & Notes
- Classified Ads
The 2600 Connection is a printed newsletter published bimonthly. To learn how to purchase this issue or buy a subscription, please visit the 2600 Connection website.
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 Paramount Pictures has given the green light for a movie centered around Atari's founder Nolan Bushnell. The movie, to be titled "Atari", is set to feature Leonardo DiCaprio as Nolan Bushnell. Atari was founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in 1972 and the company would become a pioneer in arcade games, home computers, and home video games. Atari became a household name in the late 1970s and early 1980s with their wildly popular Atari 2600 video game console. Nolan Bushnell would later start several other companies after being forced out of Atari, the most successful of which was the Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant chain. "Atari" is being written by Brian Hecker and Craig Sherman, who apparently were able to convince Bushnell that they could "do his unique story justice". No word yet on when this film will reach theaters, but you can bet we'll be keeping a close eye on this one!
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Issue #49 of the Retrogaming Times Monthly is now online. Highlights from the June 2008 issue include:- Apple ][ Incider - Karateka II
- NES'cade - Kung Fu
- Game Archeologist
- Who'd Win - Battlezone vs. Robot Tank
- Old Wine in New Bottles: Retrogaming on Modern Hardware
You can find all these and more inside the Retrogaming Times Monthly, now running 129 months in a row! If you've missed any back issues, you can also look through their complete archives to get up to date.
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 If you tried visiting AtariAge between Saturday afternoon and today (Monday) around 2:30pm CST, you may have noticed that you could not reach the site. At 4:55pm CST on Saturday there was an electrical explosion at The Planet's data center in Houston where AtariAge's dedicated server is housed. This explosion and resulting fire damaged a significant portion of the building's electrical infrastructure, and all 9,000 servers hosted at this location went offline. Only last night was The Planet able to start restoring power to servers (fortunately none were damaged, nor was anyone injured), with the AtariAge server getting power and network connectivity restored a bit before 3:00pm today. This is, by far, the longest AtariAge has ever been offline since its launch over seven years ago, and hopefully we'll never have to suffer through such an outage again!
Update: Yep, the site was unavailable again for an extended period of time, between about 2:45am early Tuesday morning until 5:30pm. Turns out the temporary backup generator that The Planet was using to power "Phase 1" of their Houston data center developed a fault and the generator could not be repaired. It then took some time for them to get another generator on site and operating. Hopefully we'll be online now without further interruptions of this nature. Other hosting options are now being explored.
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 The excellent Atari 2600 emulator Stella has seen some significant updates this month, first to version 2.6, which was then quickly followed by version 2.6.1. The jump to version 2.6 brought several new features, which you can read about here. Version 2.6.1 includes several bug fixes as well as additional features and improvements, and you can learn about those here. Visit the Stella home page to download the latest version for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
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 Rob Fulop has announced that a small number of his self-published Atari 2600 game Actionauts are now available for purchase to those who did not previously reserve a copy. After leaving Imagic in early 1984, Rob Fulop set out to independently create a new 2600 game featuring robots, which were a big craze in popular culture at the time. The game, Actionauts, allowed you to program an on-screen robot with a linear series of commands. Your goal as the player was to get the robot to achieve various objectives using these programming commands. Rob was forced to abandon Actionauts in 1984 after the 2600 marked crashed, but recently resurrected the game to make it available to Atari 2600 fans. Only 250 boxed copies were made available for sale, and of those fewer than 40 remain. Please visit RobFulop.com to learn more about the game and purchase a copy.
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