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 With only a few more days to go in the Mental Kombat Label Contest we figured it was time for an update! We just added another five labels to the growing list of submissions that talented AtariAge visitors have created. This brings the total number of entries to 24! The contest ends at Midnight, December 18th, 2001 and the winner will receive the first numbered and autographed cart produced by the game's author, Simon Quernhorst. You can discuss this contest in our Atari 2600 message board.
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 With all the talk about creating portable Atari 2600 systems and using the Gameboy Advance as a platform to emulate the 2600, the Atari Historical Society decided it was time to create a page highlighting the Atari 2200 Portable VCS. That's right, Atari was considering at one time creating a portable version of its wildly popular 2600 console. Have a look at these sketches and be amazed that they were created twenty years ago by Atari Industrial Designer Regan Cheng.
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 Ron Lloyd (aka Cafeman) has updated the Koffi: Yellow Kopter development page. Koffi: Yellow Kopter is a new homebrew game that Ron is developing for the Atari 5200. In it, you play Koffi, a little "kopter" that must save the forests from an evil stormcloud named Pyro. In addition to the main page be sure to also check out the development archives page. You can discuss Koffi: Yellow Kopter with author Ron Lloyd in our Atari 5200 message board.
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 For those of you looking for yet another platform that the Sega Dreamcast can emulate, you can now add Atari 2600 emulation to the list. Schnapple brings us news that DCStella has just hit the scene. While it's in the early stages of development you can download an alpha version, burn a CD and start enjoying 2600 games on your Dreamcast. Please visit the DCStella homepage for more details and instructions on how to download and use this first release. If you'd like to discuss DCStella with other AtariAge visitors, please visit our Emulation message board.
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 We've just added three Atari 2600 Hacks to our 2600 Hacks page. The hacks added are:
Cat and Mouse, a hack of Atari's Pac-Man (by George Veeder)
Pac-Law, a hack of Atari's Outlaw (by Jim Goebel)
Suicide Adventure, a devious hack of Atari's Adventure (by George Veeder)
You can learn more about each hack as well as download the binary image by clicking on the links above. And don't forget to check out all the other hacks that people have created over the years! If you've tortured an existing game and would like to share your creation with other AtariAge visitors, please drop us a line so we can add it!
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 CGE Services has announced the dates for next year's Classic Gaming Expo, to be held on August 10th and 11th at the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas. They're promising a bigger and better show than ever, with 2002 marking the 30th anniversary of Atari, the 20th anniversary of the Vectrex and CGE's 5th anniversary. We expect several unreleased titles to make an appearance, and odds are good that another batch of homebrew titles will debut at the show. Please visit the Classic Gaming Expo website for more information and updates.
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Time to fire up your favorite drawing program again! Since it worked so well the first time around, we figured it was time for another label contest. The subject this time is Simon Quernhorst's Mental Kombat. Mental Kombat is a two player puzzle game based on a concept originally developed by Simon and a friend for the Commodore 64. As with our first label contest, the winner of this contest will receive the first copy of Mental Kombat, numbered #01 and signed by Simon. For more information about the contest and how to enter, please check out the Mental Kombat Label Contest Page. You can discuss the contest in our message boards here. Good luck!
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 For those of you who are disappointed at the dearth of card games for the 2600, we've got some good news for you! Brian Watson is developing a 2600 card game called Poker Squares. In Poker Squares the player places cards one at a time, in a 5x5 grid, with a goal of making the 10 best poker hands (5 horizontal, 5 vertical). Complete rules can be found here. Development is pretty far along and Brian expects to release the game in the first quarter of 2002. Additional information about Poker Squares can be found on our Titles in Development. You can discuss Poker Squares with other AtariAge visitors in our message boards here.
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 Jerry Greiner has announced that his Guide to the Classic Videogames is finally ready to ship. This guide has been in the works for several years and was originally scheduled for release in 1998! Jerry is a longtime hobbyist and the former owner of the Atari2600.com web site. Here is what you can expect from the guide:
- 365 pages
- 8822 main item entries
- 57 Systems such as 2600, Arcadia, Odyssey2, NES, etc.
- Rarity and Price Guide
We'll have more information about this guide after we receive ours. It's set to ship on December 7th at a price of $19.95. Check this press release for more details including ordering information and a special limited time offer.
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 Issue #68 of the long-running 2600 Connection has just shipped. You can now visit 2600 Connection online at their new URL, http://2600connection.atari.org. In this edition:
- Andy Floyd reviews the book Arcade Fever by John Sellers
- Reviews of the 8 new Atari 2600 games from CGE 2001
- Letters from Readers
- News and Notes
- Classifieds and more...
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 Intellivision Productions has issued this press release:
Blue Sky Ranger Keith Robinson will appear on The Screen Savers this Wednesday, December 5, on the TechTV cable channel. Robinson will talk about all things Intellivision: working at Mattel Electronics in the early eighties, the battle with Atari, the industry crash and introducing Intellivision to a new generation. Robinson will also demo the new INTELLIVISION ROCKS collection for PC and Mac, and "Astrosmash" for wireless phones.
The Screen Savers airs at 7pm, 10pm and 1am Eastern time; 4pm, 7pm and 10pm Pacific.
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 Songbird Productions has posted updates to their upcoming games: CyberVirus for the Lynx and Protector: Special Edition for the Jaguar. New screenshots have been added for both games, new features have been detailed, and the progress chart for Protector SE has been updated as well. Go check them out now!
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 Andrew Davie, creator of the 2600 homebrew game Qb, has announced that he is developing a Gameboy Advance Atari 2600 Emulator. Andrew claims that work on the emulator is progressing nicely, although it's still in the early stages of development. The emulator already runs Andrew's Qb "quite happily". You'll soon be able to download a version of the emulator, but in the meantime please visit TwoHeaded's GBA 2600 page to follow the emulator's progress as well as view screenshots of it in action. You can discuss the emulator in our message boards with Andrew Davie here.
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 Thanks go out to Digital Press, who've released the binary image for the unreleased Atari 2600 game Pompeii. There's not much in the way of gameplay as it looks to be in the early stages of development, but it's always interesting to see how far an unreleased game progressed. We've put up some screenshots and you can download the binary image here. If you need an Atari 2600 emulator to play it, you can grab one from our emulation page. Enjoy!
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 The fourth and final round of auctions for the September 11th Classic Gaming Relief Auction are now under way! There are sixteen auctions running with a wide variety of gaming hardware and software. These include a rare Creativision Console, 2600, 5200, and 7800 games, an autographed copy of Deus Ex, and more!
The first three rounds of auctions raised $4038.32 for the relief efforts! We can't give enough praise to those of you who submitted items for this cause and everyone who's bid on the auctions thus far. If you didn't get a chance to bid in earlier auctions, have a look over on eBay to bid today!
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 Brien King has released version 1.3.0.5 of Cart Commander. Cart Commander is a program for Microsoft Windows that allows you to easily manage your cartridge collection, no matter how many systems you collect for. This latest version adds a good number of features as well as a few bug fixes. One of the features that visitors to AtariAge will appreciate is the ability to jump straight into a game's Profile Page from within Cart Commander. You can do this by right-clicking on a title and selecting the More Info... menu choice. Please visit the Cart Commander Home Page for more information and to download the latest version. You can discuss Cart Commander in our message boards here.
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 Paul Slocum is developing a title for the Atari 2600 called the Synthcart. The Synthcart is a rather unique title for the 2600 that allows you to play music using a pair of keyboard controllers. Each keyboard controller controls one of two oscillators in the Atari 2600. The console switches can be used to adjust the quality of the sound on each keyboard. You can learn more about the Synthcart and download an MP3 demo of it in action on Paul Slocum's Synthcart web site.
Paul Slocum currently has a Testcart available for the 2600. Paul is also developing a game titled Marble Craze, which he expects to be completed early in 2002.
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 Congratulations go out to David Exton, whose label was selected by Gunfight's author Manuel Polik as the winning entry in the Gunfight Label Contest. David will receive the first production Gunfight cartridge with his label, along with a special package being created by Manuel Polik. In addition, Manuel has announced that everyone who created a label will be able to buy a copy of Gunfight from Hozer Video Games affixed with the label they created! The response to this contest was overwhelming and the quality of the labels submitted outstanding. We don't envy Manuel for having to choose a winner among them! Kudos go out to everyone who submitted an entry for this contest!
Gunfight can now be ordered from Hozer Video Games for $16. You can discuss the results of the Gunfight Label Contest with other AtariAge visitors in our Atari 2600 message board here.
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Simon Quernhorst has posted new information about Mental Kombat, an Atari 2600 game he is currently developing. Mental Kombat is a two player puzzle game based on a concept developed by Simon and a friend for the Commodore 64. New screenshots have been posted as well as detailed information concerning gameplay, current development status, and some technical details. Simon expects to complete Mental Kombat by the end of the year and will make it available as a limited run of numbered, signed cartridges.
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 The German Jaguar Development Club has recently announced their first Atari Jaguar project, Star Alliance. Star Alliance, written by Lars Hannig, is a shooter set in space where you must destroy all enemies that get in your way. For more information and screenshots, please visit the Star Alliance Development Page. You can also discuss Star Alliance in our Jaguar message board here.
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