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Atari Fans Spent $1000 On 50th XP Collection Only To Find Two Of Its Games Are Broken

Time Extension about 8 days ago

"Seems more like an amateurish Kickstarter campaign".Back in 2023, Atari released a 50th-anniversary box set which cost $1000 and included 10 Atari VCS / 2600 carts: Adventure, Missile Command, Warlords, Super Breakout, Crystal Castles, Haunted House, Yars …
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Free Play Florida: 2023 Review

The Arcade Blogger about 2 months ago

I’ll start with an apology – I’m rather ashamed that its taken me this long to post my review of last year’s event! It completely passed me by, and its only the recent announcement of the 2024 dates, that reminded me I didn’t …
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Full Atari 400 Mini Game List Revealed

Time Extension about 3 months ago

25 titles included.Plaion has just revealed the 25 games that will come pre-installed on the upcoming £99.99 / €119.99 / $119.99 Atari 400 Mini micro-console, which it is producing in conjunction with Retro Games Ltd.These include Atari arcade classics …

COIN-OP CENTIPEDE! Demonstrating Atari's in-house development tools!

VCFed about 4 months ago

In this #retrocomputing #archaeology series video, we show how the tools at #ATARI coin-op worked, in-context. We modify Centipede, assemble, link, and create new EPROMs with our changes. #retrogaming #gamedev …
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Jeff Minter's udderly amazing The Llamasoft Story coming 2024

Portable Gaming Roundup about 6 months ago

Jeff Minter is one of gaming's forces of nature and his trippy experiences, let's not be rude and call them mere games, have sound-tracked and lit-up many of our digital lives. That story will be told in full on "modern systems" soon with a release in …

32-bit acorn software: classic games • Decent PD, Freeware, Shareware Games?

Stardot about 6 months ago

Below are some of my favourites, please feel free to suggest more (including cover disk exclusive games).Ace Crusader - decent Defender clone with end of stage bosses - below average graphics but plays pretty wellShangai - the version by Julian Jiggi …
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California Extreme Arcade Expo 2023

The Arcade Blogger about 7 months ago

I promised I’d share some pictures from my visit in August this year to the California Extreme arcade expo, so, here we go! This year marks the 27th Anniversary of the California Extreme Expo! Hosted at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Santa Clara, t …
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Help & Support • Question about C64 Cartridge Board - Mutliple ROM's

Lemon64 about 7 months ago

I had ordered two "Commodore C64 16KB Cartridge Board v1.0" without components from DIYChris with the intent of creating a board with a EEPROM that has selectable ROM's. (First photo, imagine a blank board)What I received was the board for the "Commodore …

3 in one Centipede/Millipede// Missile Command PCB

Arcade Projects about 7 months ago

Looking for the 3 in one Centipede/Millipede/Missile Command PCB. Made by Teamplay inc. Any help or ideas are welcome …

Apple II (Not Plus) Board has Issues

Apple Fritter about 7 months ago

Recently got a Rev.2 Apple II board.  Originally had AppleSoft ROMs, But the AutoStart had a bad pin (broke off) so I replaced them with an Integer set I had on a II+ board.  The board boots to the Machine Monitor, and with a ROM switch card (AppleSoft o …
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Team-17 Co-Founder To Open New Arcade In The UK

Time Extension about 7 months ago

Incoming!Martyn Brown, the co-founder of Team17, is planning to open a brand new arcade in the UK, as recently announced in a Facebook post.The arcade will be situated in the West Yorkshire town of Horbury in Wakefield, and will apparently include classic …
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Help & Support • Sixtyclone 250466 - Fastload empty blue screen, most cartridges do nothing

Lemon64 about 8 months ago

Hello all!I recently purchased a Sixtyclone 250466 from an eBayer in Europe. Since it came from PAL-land and I live in NTSC territory, I quickly modded it to NTSC: Namely, I:1) Replaced the VIC II with a VIC II from a junk/broken NTSC C64 (namely, a very …
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Atari Reveals 50th Anniversary Arcade Cabinet Collab with Arcade1Up

Retro Dodo about 9 months ago

Atari has just announced an exciting 50th anniversary Deluxe Arcade Machine collaboration with Arcade1Up. Surely, we’re nearing the end of anniversary branded swag from Atari. So this might be the best way to close out the party. Let’s t …
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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #96

Retro Arcadia about 9 months ago

Blimey. I’ve nearly done a hundred of these! Am I supposed to be planning something special? Anyway, back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and ne …
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Cabaret Cohorts. Post pics of your cabaret collections.

Museum of the Game about 9 months ago

I grouped up my Atari Cabarets tonight for the first time in the Kong Room. Got me thinking that i don't have a photo thread for cabarets. So if you have a game and want to show it. Or want to show off some odd ducks or rarities. Or even just things y …
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Need Centipede upright coin bucket lid measurements

Museum of the Game about 10 months ago

Quick request for anyone who owns a centipede upright. I'm looking for a coinbucket lid/cover. I have someone who has a ton of covers, but we're trying to find the right one. Can someone give me the width and length measurements? Measuring the …

programming • The kind of sprite routines that I use

Stardot about 10 months ago

;; Sprite stays still but animates, the screen can also move, lda once, sta many, used in Astro Blaster for all the enemiesCode: .draw_fixed_position_sprites{ FOR i, 1, 32 { sta screen,y } NEXT dex.*draw_sprites ; X=offset of last byte of sprite Y=bytes …

8-bit acorn emulators • BeebEm on Raspberry Pi 400 through Wine and Twister OS

Stardot about 10 months ago

I recently started running Twister OS on my Raspberry Pi 400. It's built off the back of Raspberry Pi OS Lite and adds a ton of gaming and media features (including an implementation of Wine and an x86 processor emulator) which I have successfully used t …

what game is in the background?

Museum of the Game about 10 months ago

What game is behind the Robotron? I don't know the answer. I thought it was either Centipede or Millipede, but the side art doesn't match the flyer. Come on you internet sleuths! …
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PONG Quest™ — a Charmingly Fun Roleplaying Game Based on the Iconic Atari® Franchise is Available Now for Windows PC via Steam

Old School Gamer Magazine about 11 months ago

You Might Be Stuck Inside, But These PONG® Paddles Aren’t — Explore PONG World in a New Classically-inspired Dungeon Crawler Atari® — One of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — and developer Che …
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Centipede $400 Huntsville AL RUN HUNTSVEGANS

Museum of the Game about 11 months ago

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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #83

Retro Arcadia about 1 year ago

Back again with our regular roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… I think the latter – a bit of both – applies to my first pick t …
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Atari Arcade: From Concept to Cabinets

The Arcade Blogger about 1 year ago

This week, I wanted to share some cool shots of very early concept models of Atari cabinets from the early eighties. These things have never really been highlighted before, but represent a key part of the design function at Atari Coin Operated Division du …
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Arcade Raid! Huge Arkansas Barn Find

The Arcade Blogger about 1 year ago

After something of a drought of Arcade Raid reports in recent months, I have another great classic arcade cabinet stash find to share on the blog this week. Maybe we’re on a roll! Check out last weeks’ arcade raid tale here if you missed it. …
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The Ted Dabney Experience at the Arcade Archive!

The Arcade Blogger about 1 year ago

Over here in the UK, the opening of a place where classic arcade titles can be played is always something of an event for those of us in the collecting community. Its probably fair to say that we have a decent number of options across the country now, all …