Archive for the Atari Category

Pac Man 30th Anniversary Special From Google

Check it out Pac Man lovers ! Today (May 22, 2010) is Pac Man the very known yellow ghost chasing character in the world. It's the Pac Man 30th anniversary, and Google has made for the 30th anniversary an original game of the arcade game pac-man with the google logo inside of it. Check out also the Five Other Video Games That Would Make ...

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Atari 8bit New Released : His dark Majesty

"His Dark Majesty" is a game that works on a 8-bit Atari computer which has 64KB of memory and 1.77 MHz CPU!. The game story is a strategy-rpg game that takes the core elements of Advance Wars and The Battle for Wesnoth. Precisely, this game gives you a single player campaign with interesting story in 23 chapters. You will challenge 26 diff...

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Missile Command 30th year anniversary

Atari has just opened a special web site to celebrate the 30th anniversary of MISSILE COMMAND. in 1980 Atari released one the most iconic titles in gaming history : Missile Command. 30 years later Missile Command returns entirely online, ugreadable weapons, up to 7 players co-op, endless levels, and including a Missile Command hardwar...

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« Back to the future » of the computer and game history

You are able anytime to know more about a video console, a computer system and a video game history by just typing on your favourite search engine few keywords. We found few new websites that are so useful to learn the computer and video game history. First there is "The Video Game History Timeline" by Mauricio Giraldo Arteaga. Start in 1791 (...

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8/16 bit home systems party : HomeCon 5 Party

HomeCon 5 on 2010-01-23 in Hanau/Germany will held in Taubengasse 3 in 63457 Grossauheim - Germany. For that, an intro invitation of the HomeCon 5 party was made on Atari 800XL by JAC! of WUDSN. This 16k intro is inspired by the original "Rainbow on Mars" ported from the 1991 Amiga release "Joyride" from Phenomena back in 1992. This a reall...

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Mountain Maniac a new Pixeljam neo-retro game

Pixeljam are back with the game “Mountain Maniac“. DigitalTools says : a strange mixture of Frogger, Pachinko, a fun casual game and some irritating storytelling. You play the “montain maniac” and have the goal to score points by destroying the city below the mountain. You do this by shooting of rocks out of the mountain. Insane stuff....

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Atari Lynx : Zaku is coming very soon

Zaku, is a nervous and crazy 2D shoot'em up within a 4Mb cartridge for the Atari Lynx, brought to you by Super Fighter Team and PenguiNet. An awesome homebrew Atari Lynx game with Giant sprites, 60 img/sec framerate without any slow motion. Zaku will make its public debut on October 24, 2009 at the Classic Console and Ar...

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Great new demo on Atari Console 2600

Noice 2600 is a new demo for Atari console 2600 with nice animation and cool tune. This the first little attempt at coding on the Atari VCS/2600 for Andreas Gustafsson as Shadow/Noice nickname. the cool music and replayer routine by Paul Slocum. It's recommended runningthe demo in the "Stella" emulator. (via Pouet) ...

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