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Battlezone 2000 saw release on the Atari Lynx in 1995 by Atari Corporation. What is more interesting than a new game for a handheld over half a decade after launch is what is inside that cart. While it has been widely known for years now, there is a hidden game in there. What gamers got […]
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Battlezone 2000 Open World Access Made Easier on Atari Lynx
December 3rd, 2020 
Carl Williams 
Posted in Atari Lynx, News, Portables 
Tags: arcade, atari, Battlezone, Battlezone 2000, Easter Egg, wire frame 
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BLAST ANNUAL 2020: Volume 1 Special Offer This Weekend only
March 7th, 2020 CPC4EVA If you were not aware, retro gaming Kickstarter project, Blast Annual 2020: Volume 1, has been live for the past week. Currently 28 days remaining and sitting on 31% of the target goal, the creators of Blast Annual like its backers, want to get the publication fully backed and printed.
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: #16bit, #amstradcpc, #Atari2600, 8bit, atari, c64, computer games, console games, GAMES, msx, nes, retro, retro game magazine, retrogaming, sega, zx spectrum No Comments »
Atari: A Visual History Book
April 27th, 2019 CPC4EVA Retro gaming lovers did you know that from 1979 through to 1992, over 4 million Atari 8-bit computers were sold (source: Wikipedia). The Atari 8-bit computer range had success primarily in the U.S.A and some parts of Europe with a catalog of between 600 – 800 commercially released games (not including homebrews), so it’s not […]
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Posted in Atari 800 XL/XE, Comp, News Tags: atari, Atari 8-bit, GAMES, gaming, retrogaming No Comments »
8 BIT ANNUAL 2019
March 9th, 2019 CPC4EVA With over 200 pages, 8-Bit Annual 2019 is HUGE! It is the second printed book covering all new 8 bit home computer and console released home brew and commercial games from 2018, by the 8 Bit Annual team. Included is many features, game developer interviews and more than 150 game reviews on Atari, Atari 2600, NES, […]
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Posted in Amstrad, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari 800 XL/XE, Commodore 64, Comp, Console, Master System, MSX2, NES, News, Nintendo, Sega, ZX Spectrum Tags: #amstradcpc, #Atari2600, #bbcmicro, #gamedev, #sega, #zxspectrum, 8bit, atari, c64, GAMES, gaming, msx, nes, retrogaming No Comments »
Atari Lynx Marks Console Maker Entering Portable Gaming, Nintendo Doesn’t Flinch, September 1st, 1989
September 2nd, 2018 Carl Williams Atari once ruled the gaming landscape. The problem is, they had no teeth in their tigers so to speak. Once it was proven in court companies like Activision could make games without working with Atari it opened the gates for the earliest third party developers to spring up. Many might think that it was this […]
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History Repeating Itself Atari Shows Non-Working Prototype at Trade Show
March 24th, 2018 Carl Williams Anyone that remembers the Coleco Chameleon/RVGS console remembers the fiasco revolving around it. Retro Gaming Magazine was one of the early outlets to point out that there was more to be concerned about with this than was being let on by the “developer”. Over a year later it was revealed that the RVGS, then Coleco […]
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Posted in Atari 2600, Comp, Console, Linux, News Tags: atari, Atari VCS, Coleco Chameleon, RVGS 13 Comments »
A Retro Gamer’s 12 Days Of Christmas: The Sixth Day, Joust
December 17th, 2017 Brandon Weicks On the sixth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, six geese a laying. As inexplicable the bird theme is with this carol, the lyric “six geese a laying” could have been the inspiration for the game Joust. Albeit, during the better part of a drunken eggnog bender. Just think of it, a […]
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Posted in Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Console, Nintendo, Portables Tags: 12 days of christmas, atari, joust, Williams Arcade Classic No Comments »
View Heavenly Bodies on Atari 2600 with Astronomer
December 13th, 2017 Carl Williams If you think “all” ideas for games have already been done, then you have not tried Astronomer on the Atari 2600. Yep, you read that right. An independent developer is working on an Atari 2600 game that is based on astronomy. You can even play it online right now. Link after the jump, of course.
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Posted in Atari 2600, Console, News Tags: 2600, Astronomer, Astronomy, atari, AtariAge, batari basic, homebrew, independent, indie, retro, retro gaming, retrogaming 2 Comments »
Atari Jaguar Emulator Comes to Android Platform
December 12th, 2017 Carl Williams Emulation and Android are almost synonymous with each other. There are plenty of options, both free and paid, available for just about every popular platform to see the light of day (anyone working on a Nemo emulator?). Now, we can add another Atari Jaguar emulator (RetroArch being another) via IrataJaguar. If you plan on running […]
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Posted in Atari Jaguar, Console, News Tags: android, atari, emulator, google play, IrataJaguar, jaguar No Comments »
New Jaguar Game in the Works Called JagZombies
November 16th, 2017 Carl Williams Do you know what you get when fans figure out how to make games for their favorite consoles? You get stuff that is unique, often quite different than what was released commercially. Take for instance JagZombies, a work in progress title for the Atari Jaguar console. This is a lightgun style game pitting you against […]
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Posted in Atari Jaguar, Console, News Tags: atari, homebrew, independent, indie, jaguar, JagZombies, light gun, shooter, Work in Progress, zombies 4 Comments »
