Hidden Innovations of Golf Video Games – The History of How We Play
‘Dad games’ are more important than you think.| The History of How We Play
Rounding out the blockbuster year of 1980, Bridge is perhaps the most niche release to come out of Activision on the VCS. In fact, it’s arguably the most niche game on the platform. This is a single-player conversion of the team card game of the same name – a card game, it should be noted, […]| | Atari Archive
While Atari itself may have wrapped up its 1980 wares in September, Activision had two final games for the year. The company itself announced these as shipping in December for sale in January, though it does appear at least some retailers started receiving and advertising them as available late in the month, shortly before the […]| | Atari Archive
September 1980 saw a surprising amount of maze-related content published on the VCS. In addition to Carla Meninsky’s Dodge ‘Em, Atari also published Rick Maurer’s follow-up to the smash hit Space Invaders: Maze Craze, also known as Maze Mania under its Sears title. And unlike Dodge ‘Em or 1978’s Slot Racers, Maze Craze is less […]| | Atari Archive
by Beat Suter The CH-Ludens research project has compiled a corpus of video games from the period 1980–2000 that were either developed in Switzerland or have a close connection to Switzerland. In addition to many other games, this corpus contains a good two dozen Atari games. The Atari games listed are spread across various platforms that emerged during these years and were used for the development and release of console and computer games. Unfortunately, the first thing to note is that the...| Confoederatio Ludens
Syttitallet kommer inn i stua igjen, i en ny replikakonsoll med 45 innebygde spill.| Spillhistorie.no
Lord. This brings back memories. Check out the official release details below. New York, NY (October 17, 2025) – Atari today announced the Intellivision Sprint, a brand-new gaming console, celebrating the 45th anniversary of the release of the original home video game console Intellivision. Featuring 45 fan-favorite games and a host of technical upgrades, the Intellivision Sprint […] The post Atari announces Intellivision Sprint appeared first on digitalchumps.| digitalchumps
At the same time Alan Miller was working on Activision’s Checkers cartridge in late 1979, at Atari, Carol Shaw had started work on her own translation of the board game, with both designers oblivious to each others’ efforts. While not as visually striking as Miller’s game, Video Checkers has more options and a stronger computer […]| | Atari Archive
Atari has once again returned to the pool of arcade conversions for its second of three fall 1980 releases, Dodge ‘Em. Like Circus Atari or Space Invaders, it’s an excellent home version of a fairly popular game from the 1970s, Head-On, meaning that just like those two, it’s a classic home version of a classic […]| | Atari Archive
While David Crane’s other August release, Fishing Derby, was a unique experience in the gaming space, the same can’t exactly be said for his other Activision debut cartridge. Atari’s first-party releases to this point are predominantly made up of arcade conversions and takes on real world activities, and with today’s game, Dragster, David Crane covered […]| | Atari Archive
After exiting Atari upon the completion of Video Chess and participating in the risky venture of starting up the novel idea of a third-party video game company, Bob Whitehead’s Activision debut showed up in August 1980 with another sports title, Boxing. This was his first project upon leaving Atari, but it’s very much in the […]| | Atari Archive
By sheer coincidence, Activision and Atari both published VCS versions of the board game checkers roughly a month apart. Activision’s Checkers, by Alan Miller, started reaching stores in August, beating Atari’s effort to retailers. While it looks graphically more interesting, whether or not it bests the version published by his former employer depends on what […]| | Atari Archive
‘Dad games’ are more important than you think.| The History of How We Play
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→ The post STG[A]TW programming and software appeared first on GeekDot.| GeekDot
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...
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
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
Slackerz Inc. and Retro Arcade Remakes have launched Food Fight Frenzy, an official sequel to Atari's 1983 food throwing game.| Arcade Heroes
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 is the ATW800/2 FAQ - hopefully answering most initial questions you might have about the ATW800/2 expansion card for the Atari ST/TT| GeekDot
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
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
There are many arcade games celebrating a milestone in 2025. Here we take a look at games seeing 50, 40, and 25 year anniversaries.| Arcade Heroes
A never-released arcade version of Archer Maclean's Dropzone was recently discovered, so lets take a look at this retro prototype game.| Arcade Heroes
Game developers and cultural forces gone too soon in 2024. Let’s celebrate their legacy.| The History of How We Play
Utah based Alan-1 has begun shipping their Asteroids Recharged game that first debuted at Amusement Expo 2024 earlier this year.| Arcade Heroes
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
Atari and Alan-1 have officially announced Asteroids Recharged Arcade for release to locations in the US.| Arcade Heroes
The ATW800/2 is a multi-function card for the ATARI Mega ST(e) and TT. It features HDMI high resolution color graphics and much more!| GeekDot
Stories told and lost. Obituaries for the gaming legends lost in 2023.| The History of How We Play
What hides in the high scores? The people who made the games!| The History of How We Play
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
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
The STG[A]TW is a hybrid of a classic STGA ISA graphics-card adapter and a Transputer interface for the ATARI Mega ST internal bus.| GeekDot
