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... anyway about that Arkanoid game. It looks AMAZING! So looking forward to this one.

It's this one. Really miss big retro gaming events like this one, we got to play an early Oculus prototype, had a 64 player Warlords tournament, drink beer together, played on rare cabs & consoles, saw previews of new homebrew & bang on about old videogames. Come on boffins let's get this thing cured so we can get back out there! Sorry, a bit off topic there, looking at these photos has made me a bit nostalgic.

I bought an Asteroids hoodie for £4 about 10 years back. I'm wearing it in almost every photograph of me for the last decade! I guess I wear it a lot.

I LOVE paddle games. If it was cheap, had good controls & stacked with a range of well emulated paddle games like Warlords, Arkanoid, Blasteroids, Kaboom & Tempest then it would be an instant purchase. As it'll no doubt be overpriced, have dodgy controls & only be able to play Pong (like billions of clones from 4 decades ago) I'll give it the swerve.

Bubble Bobble is amazing. If as Nolan Bushnell said all the best games are "easy to learn and difficult to master", then I'd argue that Bubble Bobble is the ultimate videogame, I love it to bits & wax lyrical about it often. However it has been perfectly ported to practically every machine known to mankind, the Master System port is incredible, even the humble ZX Spectrum has a fine version. The world isn't exactly crying out for another port of Bubble Bobble in the same way that the 7800 is crying out for more paddle games. 7800 versions of the likes of Warlords, Kaboom, Tempest, Pong, Blasteroids etc Yeah, a 7800 version of Blasteroids with paddle controls, now that's something I'd pay real money to see!

Simply incredible. Thank you so much for the update. I am in awe. I'd have been happy enough with a generic Breakout clone with a vague attempt at Arkanoid style gameplay...but this...this is the real deal!!! To say I'm looking forward to this would be somewhat of the understatement. An Insta-purchase and to hell with the import tax!! 😄😄

Absolutely! Review left. Might have to organise another online session with my mate from back home again this evening. Great fun.

Absolutely loving reading about the progress of this one. I genuinely don't think I've been this psyched for the development of a new game since the 90s!!

What an utterly marvellous game! There's no way I can afford to shell out the $85 to get it shipped to the UK, but I've just picked up the Steam version & it's fabulous. A thing of beauty!!

Not terribly obscure selections here, but Jawbreaker is my favourite Pac Man type game. Also a fan of Solar Storm, a paddle controlled shooter & Armor Ambush is a great Combat type game.

Brilliant, that would be awesome if it could happen. But either way, I'm really looking forward to this one.

I have one homebrew game, Medieval Mayhem & it's utterly glorious, probably my favourite game. Money's tigjt & between oversea postage, import tax & a weak pound (thanks Brexit!) Picking up games on the Atariage store is at least double the price. I'll be picking up 7800 Arkanoid as soon as it's released though, I'd class that as an essential purchase!

Witchcraft I tells you, pure witchcraft! Fantastic work.

The saddest thing about this whole debacle is that I'm going to have to read over a thousand pages of this thread to get some of the jokes & references!

Cheers for the update, I've waited 30+ years for a home version of Arkanoid with Atari paddles, I have absolutely no qualms waiting a while longer! It's a labour of love so you just fit it in when it suits. 🙂

Nice! The "more 7800 games" is particularly encouraging! 😍 So psyched for this project, congrats on all the progress so far. The Twitter link doesn't seem to be working atm, will be following the progress on there for sure when it's up & running.

Absolutely marvellous! I am in awe. Some completely astounding work has gone into this.

Fantastic work. I'm in awe of this. *Googles last minute trans-Atlantic flights to Portland*

This looks phenomenal. I can't begin to tell you how excited I am at the prospect of playing this on a real 7800 with paddles.

Wow, that's an amazing gesture! I'm just extremely grateful this is being made & some things are worth paying extra for. I should visit this forum more often, there's a lot of very talented folk on here doing great things with the old tech that I love!

I don't post here often, but I just wanted to say how grateful I am for the work that has gone in to this, it looks incredible., I'm a huge fan of paddle games & always thought that there was a real missed opportunity to do classic paddle games some real justice on the 7800. Arkanoid is one of my favourite games of all time & I'm really keen to play it on a real 7800 with the paddles. As I live in the UK, importing stuff from the US, with the postage & tariffs makes it become quite extortionate (not to mention the pound being at a 35 year low...thanks Brexit!). This however, if it is released on a cart, like Medieval Mayhem, it will be an instant purchase & I just know it will be worth every penny!! Just wanted to add a note to say how sorry I was to read about Drac, although I never knew him, his enthusiasm was clear to see. RIP

After a year of waiting they're finally in the shops...I've like a billion other ways to play these games & 1st reports don't sound great... ...so why the heck do I find myself wanting to drop 35 quid on one of these things? What is wrong with me???

That's a shame. I'll have to stick to playing Ninja Golf & Food Fight on the psp (& the original hardware of course.)

Ordinarily big collections of games carts do nothing for me, meh it's the games that count not the packaging or the carts..... ......with the exception of Atari & particularly 2600 carts & boxes for some reason I could look at pics of them all day. It's the ONLY machine I "collect" for ( a very modest collection probably about 60 or so carts), pretty much every other "retro" machine I've ever owned I've had a flash card style thing, or lumped on to a modded hard drive like my Xbox .... but not my 2600 or 7800, for some reason it's only the carts that will do. I'm sure there's some psychological reason. Oh and thanks for sharing, the picures are lovely.

I love my Xperia Play, I up/down/sideways graded from an iphone 3gs & although I lost a tonne of 59p games I don't regret it for a second. The emulation is very impressive & it's great to have a smartphone that you can have tactile controls on! Although it can handle PS1 and 16-bit emulation with consumate ease & there are loads of decent games in the app store, I have to admit I've been using the 2600.emu emulator more than most of the rest of the stuff put together! Does anyone know where I can get hold of a 7800 emulator for it?