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Before you get to thinking this is a port of Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures from the 16-bit platforms, calm down. It is not. This is a hack of the original Pac-Man with new levels and improved all around over what Atari forced on us back in the day. Pac-Man 2 is hard, you are […]
Posts Tagged ‘2600’
Pac-Man 2 Homebrew Released for Atari 2600
September 12th, 2015 
Carl Williams 
Posted in Console, News 
Tags: 2600, atari, bandit gaming, console, game hack, improvement, retro, retrogaming, video game, videogame, youtube 
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New Version of Mario Bros Coming to Atari 2600, Already Obliterates Official Version
September 7th, 2015 Carl Williams Man, the guys over on the Atari Age forums sure do keep themselves busy with creating new and improved versions of classic games. Specifically classics on the Atari 2600 that didn’t exactly receive a stellar port in the first place. Previously I looked at another improved port in the form of Pac-Man 8K Edition, also […]
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Posted in Console, News Tags: 2600, arcade, atari, Atari Age, homebrew, mario bros, port, retro, retrogaming, youtube No Comments »
Pac-Man on Atari 2600 Receives Much Improved Version by Homebrew Developer
September 7th, 2015 Carl Williams The original Pac-Man for the Atari 2600 was a crappy game, no doubt about it. Atari probably knew very well that they shouldn’t have released it like it was but they did anyhow. Call it greed, call it stupidity, call it whatever you want. The point is, it was a crap game. Leave it to […]
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Posted in Atari 2600, Console, News Tags: 2600, 8K, arcade, atari, atari 2600, Atari Age, DINTAR816, improvement, pac-man, Pac-Man 256, retro, retrogaming 1 Comment »
Atari 2600 Q*Bert Improved to be More like Arcade Version
August 30th, 2015 Carl Williams The Atari 2600 sure did try to be the arcade in your home, and for a while it was. The problem is, as time went on things improved in the arcade such as the hardware and challenge provided to the gamer. Gamers wanted more challenge, more colors, more sounds and the poor Atari 2600 just […]
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Posted in Console, News Tags: 2600, arcade, atari, Atari Age, game hack, improvement, port, Q*Bert, retro, retro game, retro gaming magazine, retrogaming, youtube 1 Comment »
Street Fight World to Bring Street Fighter II and Alpha to Atari 2600
August 29th, 2015 Carl Williams Street Fighter II was the one game that sealed the success of the Super Nintendo in the early 90’s. Sega simply had nothing to compete with it other than pitiful attempts that are best not mentioned in the same breath. Capcom knew they had a gold mine on their hands based on the success of […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: 2600, Age, atari, Atari Age, capcom, Chun-Li, forums, Ken, retro, retro gaming magazine, retrogaming, Ryu, Street Fight World, street fighter II, youtube 2 Comments »
5 Times Game Companies Charged for Game Prototypes
August 8th, 2015 Carl Williams Videogames are not new to the idea of there being problems after the game has shipped. For proof of this, just look at the more modern games for countless pieces of proof of game companies charging for prototypes. The number of games being patched to hell and back after they are released is staggering, and […]
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Posted in Console, News, Nintendo, Sega Tags: 2600, 3do, atari, Blade Force, E.T., genesis, nes, nintendo, pac-man, retro, retro game, retrogaming, sega, star fox, Studio 3DO, Super FX chip, Virtua Racing 4 Comments »
Atari Announces the Atari 7800 – May 21st, 1984 – Today in Video Game History
May 20th, 2015 Carl Williams We can sit here all day and play the “what if” game, especially when it comes to Atari. We all know about their antics throughout gaming history. For one, their Atari 7800 console was announced today, in 1984 but wasn’t released till sometime in 1986. Take the 7800 for instance, what if Atari had launched […]
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Balloon Girl Shows Flappy Bird Clones How It’s Done on Atari 2600
March 14th, 2015 Carl Williams Okay, it is no secret that Flappy Bird has gotten quite long in the tooth with gamers, though for some reason those articles are well read. So, knowing that the readers are fine with more Flappy Bird I decided it might be worth covering this new, upcoming, title for the Atari 2600 called Balloon Girl. […]
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Bandit Gaming- Adventure Island Being Ported to Atari 2600 as Expedition Island
March 9th, 2015 Carl Williams Atari is in the news a fair bit lately, from the recently discovered Alien vs Predator for Atari Lynx prototype (the third such version) to the recently released/announced Atari Jaguar games. Tack on another title to the growing list of new Atari games, this time it is Adventure Island getting ported to the Atari 2600. […]
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Posted in Console, News Tags: 2600, action, adventure, Adventure Island, atari, Expedition Island, hudson soft, retro, retro game, retrogaming No Comments »
Google’s DeepMind Artificial Intelligence Learns Retro Games, Beats Man Human High Scores without Taking Bathroom Break
February 26th, 2015 Carl Williams The jokes about Google probably being “Skynet” of Terminator fame have been around for years. The problem with those jokes is, as time marches on, it seems that they are getting less and less funny. Not because we have heard them a few thousand times each, but because of how scary Google’s artificial intelligence software […]
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Posted in Console, News Tags: 2600, artificial intelligence, atari, classic, deep neural network, DeepMind, google, kotaku, london, New Scientist, retro, Retro Domination, retro game, retrogaming, Terminator No Comments »
