This week we accommodate some risky announced 2009 games from Atari; A 2600/5200 Mario Bros commercial and comic; An Atari 800 arcade shooter being released in charity;The Atari 2600 in the Toy Hall Of Fame;A risky Atari 800 emulator; A download of all of the Atari 2600 synth sounds in wav and mp3 formats; Kick Off 2 is hushed accepted strong; The Great Atari ST Games Survey; Game reviews; 8bitrocket Save Atari Week, and a gobs c tons more.
Announcements from the Current Atari (I don’t exceptionally note them ATARI cannon, but they are all we accommodate expeditiously now). - The accepted French disposition that uses the beyond compare Atari has made some announcements this week. They purchased the world-wide rights to two franchises, Ghostbusters: The Video Game and The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.
You can conclude from the licensed squander one’s arms up to snooze here.
It looks like Ghost Busters be missing pick on DS, Wii, PC, XBOX 360, and PS3, while Riddick be missing pick it’s cater for in the line-up in PC, XBOX and PS3 no greater than. Both titles should be finished in 2009.
Blogs/Sites/Discussions- Nathan at The Dork Dimension as a composure unimportant posting of the Comic Book and TV Commercial in Atari 2600 and 5200 Mario Brothers.To surrebutter Nathan’s interrogate, the Sears Video Arcade was the Atari 2600, sold no greater than at Sears with a diversified beyond compare.
- Sector Wars (http://www.sectorwars.co.uk/) was an unreleased Atari 800 English Software christen from 1985. The absolute scribbler is accepted to to snooze it into the at large of one’s receive care with as a emancipated emulator rom download as in a jiffy as he has received satisfactorily donations to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. Now, that’s a exceptionally composure phantasy.
The fraud looks AWESOME. It appears to be a misdeed ancestors of Phoenix and Santa’s Hallow.
-The Atari 2600 was inducted into the (ROCHESTER, N.Y) National Toy Hall of Fame this week.
Along with the affix (just a ascetic unwell stick), and Mr.
Potato Head. Did you own that the cardboard sock was inducted in 2005? Now, That’s unceremonious composure.
- Virtual Dub.org released their to a sickening spaciousness own Atari 800 computer emulator, called Altirra.
It was at created as a means to emulate the Last Star Fighter (Star Raiders II in you pirates, and you without delay who you are).
Since that fraud includes so tons advanced features (bank switched rom, DLI interrupts, etc), Altirra be missing also emulate most other games as not unexpectedly. It has a man other to a sickening spaciousness engrossing hoop-la: it can boot protected disk images and hole up the absolute eat ask.
- Little Scale (Sebastian Tomczak) has a glaring delineate of samples recorded in a jiffy from an PAL Atari 2600.
Called The Atari 2600 Sample Pack, it includes 1344 unrivalled samples organized sooner than whitish horse deportment and envelope show with 32 pitches in each. Retro fraud programmers can ante up to from this Creative Common’s licensed delineate of sounds in non-commercial uses no greater than.
- The Joy Of Sticks (an sickening blog dedicated to Atari ST Gaming) has completeness up a critique of Archer Maclean’s uninterrupted, IK+. Did you own that there is an unmixed intimacy of people dedicated to Dino Dini’s AWESOME Kick Off series? The Kick Off Association has signification boards, tournaments, re-makes, emulators.
roms and more.
Also, if you accommodate not seen it, the Great Atari ST Games Survey Results accommodate been posted. It includes 50 reviews and pictures of the BEST ST games. It is to a sickening spaciousness entirely not unexpectedly done.
- Atari Mania.com is attempting to hand on grow to the undiminished database of Atari ST software (much like their astounding Atari 800 database). They request your expedite in doing so.
- Even at any pace Rich settled at Little Green Desktop has not had values glittering and at the crack to update the instal in a while, it is hushed the Premier Atari ST Gaming Resource on the spider’s cobweb.
The featured fraud today was a favorite of search called Uridium.
- Game Player’s Complete History Of Atari (by Andrew P Street).
- Recycled gaming has risky features on Circus Atari (2600 version) and Pitfall II (2600) (awesome fraud, along with Hero).
- Here at 8bitrocket, we had an unmixed week dedicated to scraping Atari:1. Save Atari Week Starts2. Top 10 2600 Games That Could Have Been Franchises3.
10 Lesser Known Atari Coin-Ops That Would Make Kick-Ass Casual Games4. Atari 7800/Lynx/Jaguar Games That Should Be Remade In The 21st Century 5.
Remake And Download Quality Atari 8 And 16-bit Computer Games 6.