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 The May 2009 issue of Retrogaming Times Monthly has been published. This month's issue (#60) has some new authors, new columns and ten articles:- Laughing Pixels (Tom Zjaba's VG comics)
- RTM Idiocy - The Misadventures Of PIGBEAR
- Apple ][ Incider - GBA Championship Basketball (Apple IIGS Version)
- The Thrill Of Defeat - Pleasure & Punishment On The Unexpanded Timex Sinclair 1000
- Videological Dig - 1983 Atarisoft Radio Commercial
- Gaming Studies With The Tomy Tutor: Car-Azy Racer
- Game Reviews Go On The Air
- Phoenix Is My Game! What Is Your Game?
- Creating Atari 2600 Games With Batari BASIC
You can read these articles and more inside the Retrogaming Times Monthly, now running 140 months in a row! You can also browse their archives to catch up on past issues.
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 3D Stooges Software today announced the release of its long-awaited video game cartridge for the Atari Jaguar interactive multimedia system, Mad Bodies. The game features a unique style that fuses classic Breakout-style game play with shooter mechanics for a video game experience like no other. Developed by FORCE Design, Mad Bodies puts the player in the midst of the Dark Knight Games tournament hosted by Dave Vapourware. The battle takes place over 10 stages, and with an arsenal of multiple weapons and power-ups, the player fights to take out The Graphics Man and prevent his ultimate rule of the universe.
Mad Bodies features include:- 10 stages of non-stop, world batting/shooting action
- Multiple power-ups and weapons
- Graphical special effects including morphing, scaling and screen quake
- Stereo soundtrack
- Unique sound samples and digital speech
For more information or to purchase your copy for $80 plus shipping, go to www.madbodies.com.
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 The May/June 2009 issue of 2600 Connection newsletter is now available. Features in this latest issue (#99) include:- Celebrity Endorsed 2600
- CGE 2K DVD Set Review
- Just Like The Real Arcade Game – Tapper, Space Invaders
- Rare Ware – Video Jogger / Video Reflex
- Fathom (2600) Map – Tips & Strategy
- 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 April 2009 issue of Retrogaming Times Monthly has been published. In this month's issue (#59), you can find the following articles:- Show Report: The Midwest Gaming Classic
- Show Report: My First Atari Party
- RTM Idiocy Part 4
- Apple II Incider - Jeopardy
- The Thrill Of Defeat: More 2K Timex Sinclair Reviews
- Videological Dig: 1973 Odyssey Commercial
- Cart Talk Comic Strip
You can read these articles and more inside the Retrogaming Times Monthly, now running 139 months in a row! You can also browse their archives to catch up on past issues.
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 If you've been following AtariAge for any length of time, you know that many new Atari 2600 games have been created in the last decade. Have you ever wanted to see if you have what it takes to write your own 2600 game? AtariAge user MayDay has written up an article over on Instructables.com on How to Make an Atari Game. In this article you'll get a nice overview of how to get started, with plenty of helpful links to point you at the appropriate knowledge, resources and tools you'll need. Atari 2600 programming is not for the faint of heart, and the better prepared you are before you dive in, the more likely you'll be to complete a project rather than become overwhelmed. You can read the full article here and discuss it in our Atari 2600 Programming forum.
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 Fifteen Starpath cassettes were discovered in Dallas, Texas last week, along with three Supercharger units. The Supercharger was in add-on module that expanded the RAM of the 2600 from 128 bytes to 6,272 bytes. This module, which connected to a cassette player to load games from tape, added high-resolution graphics and larger games for eager players. Many of the tapes in this discovery have already been dumped. One of them is Excalibur version 36, another is a very early work-in-progress of Labyrinth whose third maze can be completed. Of the others, there is an earlier version of Excalibur with no number. There are also versions of Communist Mutants from Space and Suicide Mission that, so far, appear mostly complete. The earliest versions of Excalibur and the Labyrinth tapes in this set both have second loads to them, however, it is unknown at this time if those loads are previews or if they contain additional levels from their respective games. All of the games dumped thus far have been NTSC.
Several AtariAge forum members are digging into these prototypes to see what's new (actually, it's "what's old" in this case), so stay tuned! You can read about the original discovery of these games here and can download all the binaries and keep up on the latest updates in our Prototypes Forum.
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 Several weeks ago a new user to our forum (FrauBlucha) posted that he had discovered a box of Atari 7800 games in his attic. Among these games turned out to be an apparently unreleased Atari 7800 game, Jr. Pac-Man. FrauBlucha ultimately sent us this one-of-a-kind prototype and we dumped the binary and sent it to him. This morning FrauBlucha decided to share Jr. Pac-Man with the classic gaming community, and he posted the binary to thread he previously started. This unreleased prototype appears to be fairly complete and is quite playable, comparing favorably to the arcade. The main difference we've been able to discern is that the arcade intermissions are missing. Other than that it seems to be fairly far along and polished.
To learn more about the discovery of Jr. Pac-Man, you can read this thread over in our Atari 7800 forum. The specific post with the binary of the game is here. If you don't already have one, you'll also need an Atari 7800 emulator such as the excellent ProSystem Emulator and MESS for Windows and MacMESS for Mac OS X. Enjoy!
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 Version 2.7.5 of the 2600 emulator Stella is now available for downloading. This version includes a fix for the infamous "red screen" issue when using ATI video cards in OpenGL mode in Windows. Several other bugs and improvements have been made as well. Stella is a multi-platform Atari 2600 emulator that sees frequent updates and its developers solicit feedback through our forums. Please visit the Stella home page to download the latest version for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. To view details about the improvements in this version of Stella, as well as to discuss Stella and provide feedback, please visit our Emulation Forum.
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A new issue of the Retrogaming Times Monthly is available, which brings along a new format and redesigned website. You can find the following articles in the March 2009 (#58) issue: - Falling Arcade Prices
- RTM Idiocy - Part 3
- Apple ][ Incider - Wheel of Fortune
- The Thrill Of Defeat - Games for the 2K Timex Sinclair 1000
- Old Wine New Bottles - The Activision Anthology
- National Center for the History of Electronic Games
- Videological Dig - Christmas 1975
You can find all these and more inside the Retrogaming Times Monthly, now running 138 months in a row!
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The March/April 2009 issue of 2600 Connection newsletter is now available. Features in this latest issue (#98) include:- Eurocon 2008 – Show Report
- 100th Issue Prize Drawing
- Pac-Man Patterns – Strategy
- Just Like The Real Arcade Game – Pole Position, Pac-Man - Reviews
- Racing The Beam: The Atari VCS – Book Review
- Rare Ware – Magicard – Review
- Dodge ‘Em Patterns - Strategy
- 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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 A new online museum dedicated to the video tennis games known as "Pong", is now officially open. The website, Pongmuseum.com, has opened in time to commemorate the 40th anniversary of video pong and the birthday of the Magnavox Odyssey (the world's first video game console) 37 years ago.
"In 1966, Ralph H. Baer came up with the concept of a "television gaming apparatus." This device included both a chase game and a video tennis game, and could be attached to a normal television set. There were about 40 million TV sets in the US homes alone in 1966, to say nothing of many more millions of TV sets in the rest of the world. They were literally begging to be used for something other than watching commercial television broadcasts!"
Pongmuseum.com features comprehensive images of featured Pong systems, information about various home Pong units, Pong history, and more. They are also looking for your help to build up their database of imagery and information regarding Pong systems. If you have anything you can contribute, they'd love to hear from you!
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 Zoo Keeper is one of those mythical Atari 2600 games that is suspected to exist somewhere, but to date has not been discovered. Back in 2005, the audio for Zoo Keeper was painstakingly reassembled from source code. Now, thanks to the efforts of Ken Van Mersbergen, a character animation video from the 2600 version of Zoo Keeper has been discovered. You can watch the video on YouTube or download a higher quality (21MB) version of the video that we've hosted here on AtariAge. The video was taken from an original video tape that was recorded off of an Atari 800 using the ANIMAT program the animators at Atari used at that time. You can discuss this latest Zookeeper discovery in our Atari 2600 Forum.
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Hot on the heels of Stella 2.7 comes the release of 2.7.2, which fixes a few bugs that slipped through the cracks in 2.7. Also included are some additional changes based on user feedback. Stella is a multi-platform Atari 2600 emulator that sees frequent updates and its developers solicit feedback through our forums. Please visit the Stella home page to download the latest version for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. To view the details about what changed between 2.7 and release 2.7.1, please view this thread. To discuss 2.7.2 (which fixed one important bug present in 2.7.1), please visit our Emulation Forum.
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 A new book about the Atari 2600, Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System, written by Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost, has just been published. Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System is a detailed and accessible study of this influential videogame console from both computational and cultural perspectives.
The book examines the relationship between the unusual hardware design of the Atari VCS, the games that were created for it, and how those games influenced later titles and genres. The authors discuss the Atari VCS itself and six telling cartridges for the system: Combat, Adventure, Pac-Man, Yars' Revenge, Pitfall!, and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. They delve into the technical specifics of the system, tracking developments in programming, gameplay, interface, and aesthetics.
You can read more about the book and purchase it over at Amazon.com.
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 Long before there were Wacom tablets and Adobe Photoshop, Atari produced the CX77 Touch Tablet for their line of Atari 8-bit computers. Technologizer.com obtained an unopened, new-in-the-box Atari Touch Tablet and decided to unbox the tablet and document the process. Atari's cartridge-based AtariArtist software was included with the Touch Tablet, and the article's author goes as far as to hook the tablet up to a 130XE to put it through its paces. Posting pictures of an "unboxing" has become a popular internet activity for some, and not something we see very often for Atari peripherals that were released 25 years ago. You can view the complete slideshow here.
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 Classic Video Gamer Magazine is looking for your feedback! They are undecided about the format to use for their upcoming premier issue and are looking towards the community for the answer. Classic Video Gamer Magazine is considering offering the first couple issues as free digital downloads and then moving to print if interest is there, but this depends on the answers they receive from AtariAge members. It's possible they may just forgo the digital format and go straight to print, but again this depends on the responses received. Please visit the Gaming Publications and Websites forum to participate in their poll and to participate in the conversation.
Classic Video Gamer is also looking for individuals interested in contributing content to the magazine. This includes a Homebrew Columnist, Historian Columnist, Interviewers, and Gamer Reviewers. If you're interested, you can contact STGuy1040 directly.
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The multi-platform Atari 2600 emulator Stella has just been updated to version 2.7. The primary new features of this release are a new UI and substantially upgraded ROM launcher. Also included is an updated manual that describes features that have been present in Stella for some time, but never properly documented. Visit the Stella home page to download the latest version for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. To view all the details about what's been changed in this latest version, please visit our Emulation Forum.
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Issue #56 of the Retrogaming Times Monthly is now online. Highlights from the January 2009 issue include:- Classic Computer Idiocy - CoCo & TRS - 80 Fun
- Apple ][ Incider - Donkey Kong & Pac Man
- Old Wine New Bottles - Sonic Mega Collection Plus
- The Thrill of Defeat - Catching the 1k Bug
You can find all these and more inside the Retrogaming Times Monthly, now running 136 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 January/February 2009 issue of 2600 Connection newsletter is now available. Features in this latest issue (#97) include: - 2600 Game Copiers
- Special Game Announcement: Mean Santa
- More on Androman
- Just Like The Real Arcade Game – Dig Dug, Galaxian
- Spotlight on Homebrews – I Project
- Dukes Of Hazzard – Prototype Review
- Letters from Readers
- 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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 Instructables member seamster has built a Giant Atari Joystick Lamp from scratch as his entry into a $20,000 contest being held on the site. The lamp base is modeled after a classic Atari 2600 CX-40 joystick and the lampshade is adorned with box artwork from a variety of 2600 games. The joystick fire button is used to turn the lamp on and off and the power cord exits the joystick where you'd expect. After looking at the pictures, you'll see that the attention to detail is remarkable and that the lamp very much resembles an original CX-40 stick scaled up in size. You can view the complete step-by-step process of how the lamp was created here.
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