На днях акционеры Thunderful Group одобрили продажу 81,7% шведского холдинга компании Atari. В интервью GamesIndustry генеральный директор Atari Уэйд Розен (Wade Rosen) рассказал, почему он решился на эту сделку.| App2Top
Do you like supporting local businesses? How about supporting two local companies in one visit to the arcade? Alan-1 Inc. is based out of Tooele, and has been designing several arcade games. Late last year and earlier this one, they released Asteroids Recharged and Avian Knights, respectively; then they launched Soda Slam! and Missile Command:…| Arcade Galactic - Video Arcade & Pinball Gaming at Valley Fair Mall in West V...
В портфолио Atari стало больше игр. Компания объявила о сделке с Ubisoft, в результате которой она получила права на интеллектуальную собственность, связанную с пятью проектами.| app2top.ru
This Gamescom contains classic titles (that will be new ones). Anyway, enjoy the official Bubsy announcement and trailer. COLOGNE, GERMANY – August 19, 2025 – What could possibly go wrong? Atari and independent game studio Fabraz today announced Bubsy 4D, marking the return of everyone’s fur-vorite bobcat mascot in his first 3D adventure since 1996. A colorful and […] The post Bubsy 4D announced from Atari and Fabraz appeared first on digitalchumps.| digitalchumps
Atari’s portfolio has expanded with more games. The company announced a deal with Ubisoft, resulting in its acquisition of intellectual property rights related to five projects.| App2Top
Welcome to a post centring around a topic that hasn’t been touched on for some time, and is being done in the absence of much else – you may have noticed the site has gone fairly quiet this past week. However, we do actually have several stories that are brewing behind-the-scenes. As these things go [&hellip The post Setting Up A Soda Slam! and a Missile Command Recharged By Alan-1 appeared first on Arcade Heroes.| Arcade Heroes
Atari’s fourth and final game from July 1980 follows in the footsteps of games like Night Driver, Outlaw, Indy 500 and numerous others in being a home conversion of a 1970s arcade game that is much, much better known today by its VCS counterpart. And much like Outlaw before it, Circus Atari – or […]| | Atari Archive
3-D Tic-Tac-Toe, by Carol Shaw – yes, the same Carol Shaw who would write seminal classic River Raid – is in some ways the most ambitious of the four games Atari published in July 1980 – a group that includes Night Driver, Golf, and Circus Atari – though it certainly doesn’t seem like it at […]| | Atari Archive
… or was it a cold solder joint again? Intro Today, I’m sharing a short story about fixing the Atari XF551 5.25 floppy drive. This drive is one of the better, if not the best, stock solutions for the 8-bit Atari line of computers. It was released in 1987 and is styled after the XE […] The post #shorts – Atari XF551 floppy drive fixes appeared first on retrohax.net.| retrohax.net
… or drill baby drill :> Intro In the 90s a lot of computers used Dallas modules as an RTC solution. These modules have an internal battery cell which in 2025 is simply a dead cell. This results in a “CMOS battery failed” error thrown at us during the boot process and renders clock setting […] The post #shorts – CMOS battery failed – Dallas RTC module hax appeared first on retrohax.net.| retrohax.net
…or, how to replace your whole game room with one gadget :> Intro Right at the beginning, when the MiSTer FPGA project was released, I bought all the needed components to build my own MiSTer setup. I had to wait in a long queue before I had a while to finally build it. However, it […] The post Using old iPad screens with MiSTer and retro machines appeared first on retrohax.net.| retrohax.net
Here we are with another mouSTer adapter update! This one is huge for us.First things first. I had a major break from blog posting due to...| retrohax.net
From a post on CompuServe, as shared by former coworker Eric. C to myself and some other coworkers, including one who formerly worked for Atari during the Jaguar days. From 75300.1267@CompuServe.CO…| Sub-Etha Software
Last week I created a new set of logo and font graphics for my old Sega Genesis project. These were much larger than the original graphics I used, so I ran it through the LZ4 compression algorithm to get the size down to a more comfortable level. Now we need to get those graphics on […]| Bumbershoot Software
These days, nearly every racing game published is designed around the player’s viewpoint being either behind the car or in the driver’s seat itself. While Night Driver did not originate this perspective, it without question popularized it both in arcades and in Atari’s home conversion. Yes, Night Driver is a return to the realm of […]| | Atari Archive
Warren Robinett’s BASIC Programming may be the oddest fit for the VCS out of any cartridge released on the platform – certainly it’s the oddest first party release. It’s not really a game in any sense of the word; rather, it’s a version of the BASIC computer language designed to run on the VCS. I’ll […]| | Atari Archive
Of all the original games Atari put out for the VCS, Adventure may be the one that most people are familiar with today. Warren Robinett’s third and final VCS game – though seemingly the second to actually be released – serves as a counterweight to the arcade action of its March 1980 brethren Space Invaders […]| | Atari Archive
The Atari VCS was supported commercially on the market for a mind-boggling 14 years, starting in 1977 and ending its run in 1991. There are a handful of incredibly notable moments in time during the system’s life on the market, and March 1980 might be the most important one for the console’s fortunes – and […]| | Atari Archive
The final VCS game from the 1970s was a long time coming. Video Chess is a technical feat in several ways, and it’s also a game that owes its existence in part to a marketing decision dating back to the VCS launch back in 1977, and to the joint efforts of one of the […]| | Atari Archive
While not nearly as obviously exciting as Superman, the last two VCS games to come out in 1979 push boundaries in their own technical ways. Backgammon and Video Chess are both attempts to bring their respective strategy board games to a platform not suited for the necessary thought processes or even displaying the game boards. […]| | Atari Archive
We’ve come to the first of three VCS games published in the fall of 1979, and it’s a doozy. Superman is an incredibly ambitious game completely unlike anything seen up to this point on the VCS or its competitors; indeed, it’s an experience more in line with the games one would find specially made […]| | Atari Archive
This is a Jeff Minter game for people who like Jeff Minter games. I’m saying that because I think whatever else Jeff Minter’s games do, whether they be originals or remakes or reimaginings, they are first and foremost in the Jeff Minter genre. Have you enjoyed a Jeff Minter game before? Then you will probably enjoy I, Robot well enough. It has the psychedelic imagery. It has braying farm animals. Random words sometimes appear while you’re playing. Even though the main game doesn’t hav...| Post Game Content
This console, with a few games, cost me 50,000 Lire in 1998 (before the Euro), which is about 36€ or 41$ today. At that time there were a few classified magazines: in the beginning you had to pay f…| Oldcomputr.com
There’s a whole story behind this latest release from Atari, but it’s not one that really matters all that much in the end. The short version is that Breakout Beyond was originally planned as a title for the ill-fated Amico console. Like many games announced for the Amico, it fell off the map as it became apparent the whole thing was going ca-ca. Some of those games have since popped up in various ways, with Breakout Beyond rescued by Atari itself. It’s not public knowledge how far alon...| Post Game Content
It was spring break, 1988. I turned on my Amiga 500, the pigeons cooed outside, and summer filled the air. Across the street, my friend had an Atari and a magazine full of BASIC listings. We typed code all afternoon. Nothing has changed, but everything has changed. I’m loading memories.| Petros Amoiridis
Last week, I poked around in the C language at both the implementation of a simple linked-list structure and a method for allocating memory for that list without any special language or OS support.…| Bumbershoot Software
Last week I implemented a few routines that would operate on a singly-linked list data structure on the Motorola 68000 CPU. Despite dating from 1979, the 68000 instruction set sits well enough with…| Bumbershoot Software
Atari's first three video arcade games tell a fascinating story of rapid evolution: the first video arcade game ("Computer Space" - 1971), the game it inspired ("Pong" - 1972) and the sequel to Pong ("Space Race" - 1973) which introduced the arcade world to the joystick.| New Atlas
It's time to dust off your old Atari cartridges as the company again tries to tap into gaming nostalgia with an updated version of its iconic Atari 2600. The upcoming Plus model has the same look as the 80s classic, and will ship with a 10-in-1 cartridge but also supports legacy 2600 and 7800 game…| New Atlas
In my previous post, I mentioned that I found a number of oddities when digging through the details of various Atari 8-bit file systems. I read through the specifications I could find online, and ran the actual code in emulators to verify and discover details when the specifications were unclear or incorrect. There were some surprising finds.| Mad Man with a Compiler
I got my start with computers as a kid with an Atari 800 way back when. When I'm feeling nostalgic, I still enjoy pulling it out and playing with it. These days, I'm more likely to pull out an emulator than the real thing, as they're now so precise that it's very difficult to find a difference, and it eliminates all the hassles involved with disks that were slow and may have failed with age. That means I need tools for manipulating disk images.| Mad Man with a Compiler
Introduction Last time, we started our MiSTer journey and could run the various cores that didn’t require the add-on memory expansion module. I finally received the memory expansion board, so now t…| Stephen Smith's Blog
One of the very first posts on this blog is on the Atari 130XE. The Atari 8-bit computers had some seriously impressive technology (remember, they came out i...| nicole.express
In 2024, it’s easy to look back at home video games in 1979 and think of it as a time of game consoles; the Channel F and the Atari 2600 (VCS) battling it ou...| nicole.express
Atari founders circa 1972-73 (from left to right):Ted Dabney, Nolan Bushnell, Larry Emmons, and Allan Alcorn [ Atari Pong turns 50 years old today, and I thought it might be fun to revisit an article I wrote about the game’s creation for Edge Magazine (Issue 248) back in 2012. Since the web version of that […]| Vintage Computing and Gaming
The Tto68k project started by a classic “phone call doodling” situation… but instead of drawing strange patterns I was fiddling alternately with one of Transputer TRAMs and a spare 68000 CPU I had laying on my desk. At one point it dawned to me, that the 68000 classic 64pin DIL package perfectly fits in-between a … Continue reading Tto68k→ The post Tto68k appeared first on GeekDot.| GeekDot
Ok, you read/heard about the STG[A]TW and want to know more about how to use it and -most importantly- for what it’s good for? First and foremost, a Transputer is a computer-system of its own connected to a host. In this case an ATARI Mega ST. But given an available host-adapter that could also be … Continue reading STG[A]TW programming and software →| GeekDot
Nolan Bushnell founded Atari in 1972, sold it to Warner Communications in 1976, and was eventually ushered out of the company in 1978. The writing had been on the wall for awhile, for the man who had kept Atari alive by constantly innovating, by constantly swimming forward in a sea of ravenous competitors. By then, Atari had gone from a company about innovating to a company about marketing past successes, and that attitude eventually helped sink the entire industry in 1983-84. What Nola...| Video Game History 101
Vanguard was an arcade game developed by "shadow" developer TOSE, and released in Japan by SNK in late 1981 and licensed for North America by Centuri. It was an important intermediate step towards modern side-scrolling shoot-em-ups such as Gradius and R-Type, improving on a genre first formed by William's seminal Defender. | Video Game History 101
Today is Nolan Bushnell's 70th birthday. Before co-founding Atari and the video game industry, a previous job had held while a student attending the University of Utah was as a carnival barker. It was a job he ended up doing his whole life. Today's What Nolan Said:| Video Game History 101
Did you miss it last year? Well, here’s another chance to check out Paleotronic’s 12 years of Retro-Christmas, a series of 12 mini-mags looking back at consumer electronics covering the years 1980-1991. It was the [more...]| Paleotronic Magazine
When I wrote a blog post on my Atari 2600jr, one mod I wanted to do was to replace the voltage regulator. Well, if you want to follow that saga, you’ve come ...| nicole.express
