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 If you're in the Chicago area and reading this site, you'll want to make a visit to the Museum of Science and Industry where a new Game On - History of Video Games exhibit has opened. This exhibit features a large number of games setup in several subject areas, from the early days of Pong all the way up through today's newest releases. All types of video games are represented, including arcade games, classic systems and computers, and modern game consoles. The Game On exhibit runs through September and admission is only $5. When you visit, be sure to stop by the Computer Space exhibit where you can check out the yellow Computer Space presently on loan to Game On by the Atari History Museum. You can learn more by visiting the Game On web site.
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 The Atari Video Club / Jaguar Community United have announced their plans for the 2005 Video Game Summit, scheduled to take place on July 16th, 2005 from 9am to 6pm at the Fairfield Inn and Suites in Lombard, Illinois (the same location as the previous two events). Besides your typical video game trading, tournaments, selling, and buying, you'll also be able to enjoy free internet access. Pizza and soda will also be available for purchase at the show to help fuel your full day of video game excitement. For more information, please visit the VGS home page.
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 Lars Hannig of Starcat Developments has recently announced that he is developing a new homebrew game for the Atari Jaguar, JagWorm. JagWorm is a funny, and highly addictive cartoon game for the whole family in which the player takes control of a worm and guides him through many interesting and challenging levels. The goal is to eat a certain amount of apples in the limited time given and avoiding all obstacles, such as rocks, thorns, bushes, water and many more. You can learn more about the game by visiting the JagWorm Homepage, and discuss the game with Lars and other Jaguar fans in our Atari Jaguar Forum.
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 You've probably heard about the long-rumored port of the arcade game Zoo Keeper for the Atari 2600, the existence of which has yet to be discovered. Fortunately, Robert Vieira, who programmed the sound for the Atari 2600 version of Zoo Keeper while working at Atari, has preserved the source code to his Zoo Keeper audio. He shared this binder with Ken Van Mersbergen, who typed the sources in by hand (OCR could not be used) and then worked with Thomas Jentzsch to create an Atari 2600 binary that lets you listen to all the sounds of Zoo Keeper. The sounds are top notch, and while it's all we have of the game at this point in time, it's great to at least be able to experience the audio from this never-released game. You can download the binary here and run it in your favorite Atari 2600 emulator. To play the sounds, press the fire button. After a sound has finished playing, press the fire button again to hear the next sound. For a complete list of sounds, please visit our Atari 2600 Forum. Thanks again to Robert Vieira, Ken Van Mersbergen, and Thomas Jentzsch for making this possible and preserving this piece of Atari 2600 history!
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 Issue #10 of the Retrogaming Times Monthly is now available. Highlights from the March 2005 issue include: - Retrogaming Commercial Vault - CBS "Mountain King"
- Many Faces of "Missile Command"
- TI-99/4A Arcade - Clones
- Vic 20 Power Review
- Odyssey II Multicart Review
- Syntax Era - "Electronic Games" Magazine part 2
- Tengen Titles - Klax
- Thrill of Defeat: 1st Multi-Game Consoles
You can find all these and more inside the Retrogaming Times Monthly!
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 Greg Stanton has announced the availability of a new Atari 7800 emulator called the ProSystem Emulator. The ProSystem Emulator runs under Windows, and Greg wrote the emulator from scratch, including emulation of the Atari 7800's 6502 (Sally), Maria, and Riot chips. Even in its first incarnation the 7800 emulation is first rate and this looks to be a very promising emulator to keep tabs on if you're a 7800 fan. You can download the ProSystem Emulator here, and discuss it with Greg and other AtariAge guests in our Atari 7800 Forum.
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 How would you like to own a one-of-a-kind, hand-knit sweater featuring some of your favorite Atari 2600 games, while at the same time contributing to the tsunami relief efforts? AtariAge user gospeedde has created an original Howard Scott Warshaw commemorative sweater, which she has graciously donated to be auctioned on eBay to help the tsunami relief efforts. A full 100% of the auction's proceeds will be donated to AmeriCares, a disaster relief & humanitarian organization now working in the area devastated by the tsunami, and AtariAge will pay the shipping for the sweater to any global destination served by the US Postal Service. Don't miss out on this opportunity to help a worthy cause and pick up a very unique piece of Atari memorabilia! You can bid on the sweater here--Good luck!
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 We're proud to announce the immediate availability of all five Ebivision Atari 2600 games in the AtariAge Store. Most of these original Atari 2600 homebrew games, written by Eric Bacher and Igor Barzilai, have not been available to buy for over two years. We worked closely with Ebivision to make these titles available again through the AtariAge Store. We've created new labels and manuals for each game, giving the set of five games a uniform appearance. You can learn more about each game by following these links:If you don't own any of the Ebivision titles, we've also made all five of them available in a discounted package.
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 Fans of the Atari 2600 and Atari 8-bit computers will be glad to learn we've added three homebrew games to the AtariAge Store: FlapPing (2600), Ultra SCSIcide (2600), and Beef Drop (Atari 800/XL/XE). FlapPing is an update of the previously released JoustPong by Kirk Israel, but with a new name, label, and manual. Ultra SCSIcide is an improved version of Joe Grand's popular homebrew game SCSIcide. And Beef Drop is a port to the Atari 8-bit of Ken Sider's faithful arcade conversion of Burgertime, originally released on the Atari 5200. Each of these games comes complete with original and high quality labels and manuals, and you can learn more about them at the following links:While in the store, be sure to check out the many other excellent homebrew games for the 2600, 5200, Atari 8-bit Computers and ColecoVision!
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 A new book from videogame pioneer Ralph H. Baer, Videogames: In The Beginning is soon to make its debut from Rolenta Press. This 280 book features Ralph H. Baer's memoirs, internal memos from Sanders Associates and Magnavox, over 150 photos, schematics, and patent descriptions, the four-page treatise that Mr. Baer wrote upon conceiving the idea of attaching a device to a television to play games, and more. If you pre-order the book by March 5th, you can receive the book for only $24 (20% off the cover price), and more importantly, it will be autographed by Ralph Baer. You can learn more about the book here, including some sample pages you can read online as well as how to order your own copy.
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 Having trouble keeping up with the web's numerous classic video game and classic computing news sites? Visit Retro Roundup, a new site that serves as a one-stop source for classic computing and retro video game news. Retro Roundup collects headlines from more than a dozen sites (including AtariAge), newsgroups, and other news sources into a single page. You can customize your view of the site by selecting your favorite news feeds to appear at the top of the page, and remove any sites that you're not interested in viewing. Retro Roundup was created by Kevin Savetz, curator of the informative Classic Computer Magazine Archive and AtariArchives.org web sites.
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 If you're a fan of Lucasfilm Games' early and innovative games for the Atari 5200 and 8-bit computers, then we've got some treats for you! We were recently contacted by Peter Langston and David Fox, two principles in starting up Lucasfilm Games 20 years ago. Peter Langston was "Director of Games Development" and was responsible for hiring everyone who worked for the studio, and David Fox was the Game Designer / Project Leader for Rescue on Fractalus (and he even appears on the box cover). The two have created informative websites with a wealth of great information regarding Ballblazer and Rescue on Fractalus, Lucasfilm Games first two releases. Gems among this information are videos from a press conference in 1984 at Lucasfilm where Rescue on Fractalus and Ballblazer were first announced. Here are links to the relevant pages:We enjoyed watching the press conference videos and reading through the informative material Peter and David have put online. If you've ever played Ballblazer or Rescue on Fractalus, you owe it to yourself to check out the above links. Enjoy!
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 Version 1.4.2 of the excellent Atari 2600 emulator Stella has been released. This release addresses several minor issues on the eve of larger changes that will soon be made to the Stella codebase. Changes include an updated sound system that eliminates popping and cracking sounds, additional keyboard shortcuts while running the emulator, the ability to take screenshots without any overlaid UI text appearing, the ability to reload a ROM by hitting Cmd-R in OS X, and more. You can download the latest version of Stella for Windows, OS X, and Linux here, and view a complete list of changes in our Emulation Forum.
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 Fishies is an original Atari 2600 game by Bob Montgomery, loosely based on the Intellivision game Shark! Shark!. In Fishies (working title) you are a wee fish and, to survive, you must eat other, smaller fish to grow. But watch out for the shark, as he's also on the hunt for food and you could be his next meal! Fishies will feature extensive, continuously-playing music (with an option to turn it off for those who'd rather do their fishing in quiet), as well as a two-player battle mode. You can view screenshots of Fishies here,
and download the latest version of the game as well as follow its development in our Homebrew Discussion Forum.
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 Thanks to the diligent work of Stan Jr., we've just added 66 hacks to the Atari 2600 Hacks section on AtariAge, bringing the total number of hacks online to 265! Hacks are a fun way to breath new life into old games, where the graphics, colors, sounds, and even functionality of a game are modified from the original. You can browse through all the Atari 2600 hacks here. To view a complete list of the hacks that have been added or updated, as well as discuss them with other AtariAge visitors, please visit our Hacks Forum.
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 For those who may have missed it, the February 2nd edition of The Onion A.V. Club has an interview with Atari 2600 programmer Howard Scott Warshaw. While working as a game designer and programmer at Atari, Howard Scott Warshaw created Yars' Revenge, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., and the unreleased prototype Saboteur. In the interview, Warshaw talks about the games he designed while at Atari, the E.T. landfill story, what it was like to work at Atari, and more. While you're there, you'll also want to read Wil Wheaton's review of Gunslinger (also known as Outlaw). For those who don't recall, Wil Wheaton played the role of Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Enjoy!
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 We are pleased to announce that Nathan Strum is the winner of the Ultra SCSIcide Label Contest! Nathan's vision of an exploding hard drive captures the frenetic pace of Ultra SCSIcide and what we imagine happens to your data after you finally succumb to the ever increasing speed of the game! It was a tough decision for Joe Grand to make, as many fantastic entries were submitted for this contest. For his efforts, Nathan will receive a copy of Ultra SCSIcide, labeled with his winning label design, a Stelladaptor 2600 to USB Interface and a $25 gift certificate in the AtariAge Store. Once again, congratulations to Nathan Strum (who has won several recent label contests) and to everyone who took the time to submit the many great labels we received for this contest! It's always a pleasure to witness the artistic talent present in the classic gaming community and we look forward to more such contests in the future!
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 Ever imagine what it would be like to turn an Atari 2600 game console into a Macintosh computer running OS X? Tim Robertson and Chad Perry certainly did, and filmed their first MacMod video show (inspired by shows along the lines of American Chopper and Junkyard Wars) detailing the entire build process. The end result is an Atari 2600 console that looks relatively stock, but hidden beneath its surface is a Macintosh computer. You can watch all four video segments here, and be sure to look for the mirror of the video at the bottom of the page. To discuss this video show (running time is about an hour!) with other AtariAge guests please drop by our Atari 2600 Forum.
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 Activision and Burger King have teamed up to release a series of small LCD handheld games based on early Atari 2600 games by Activision. Four different games are available, each in two separate colors: Grand Prix, Kaboom!, Tennis, and Barnstorming. The games come free with a Burger King Kid's Meal, but several people have been able to purchase them without a meal for 99 cents. One interesting note is that the Mad Bomber in Kaboom! drops hamburgers instead of bombs. You can learn more by visiting Burger King, and also discuss this promotion in our Atari 2600 Forum.
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 Room 34 has put his latest Atari 2600 Contest online, comprising of several (hopefully) mind-bending puzzles that culminate in a final challenge sure to rack your brain! Grand prize for the contest is a $20 credit in the AtariAge Store, and the contest runs until the first person submits all the correct answers. To officially participate in the contest (and be eligible for the prize), be sure you follow the instructions here and register by February 28, 2005. You can also discuss the contest in our Contests Forum with Room 34 and other AtariAge visitors.
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