atari2600land picked up the work on his bBasic Tetris game for A2600.

Release notes from atari2600land:

I don’t know why I quit working on this, but I did, and now I’m back to this again. I’d really like this to see a release, seeing as how Edtris is no longer available, and the Tetris clones seem to not be working on any more (Chetiry, NIRB). So what do I need to do next in order to make this releasable? By the way, I’m not going to have the blocks drop faster over time since there’s only 10 rows.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=135837

Magic Run is shooter with several RPG elements.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=145673

You are a lowercase i and you use your dot to slay the other vowels coming your way.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=145155

You find a treasure map in the attic of your house. Think Goonies movie. You and some friends go in search of this buried treasure on Skull Island. One problem, you don’t exactly know where Skull Island is. You each get out your raft and head out into the river. Your friends are represented on the grid as colors. The red color is you. The other colors are your friends. The pink square in the middle is an island. You’re object is to get to the island.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=145509

This is going to be a platformer game where you will traverse a bunch of underground rooms looking for keys and other items to help you proceed to new areas. Think scaled-down metroid-type gameplay. The goal (obviously!) will be to find your brother who is being held captive by Chinese poachers who are going to cut off his you-know-what and sell it on the black market.

Anyway, here’s the latest WIP build. Not much to do yet except jump around a few rooms, but the game engine and physics is mostly complete as you’ll see.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=145482

This is a simple 1 player game where you try to keep the alien from stealing all of your planetary barrier.

You’ll need to run it with a Atari 2600 emulator or install it on a writable cartridge for use on Atari 2600 console.

Discussion: http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=145539

http://www.tacticalneuronics.com/content/AtariStripOff.asp

This is a simple 2 player game where you try to score goals. Oh yeah, you also have a gun. 🙂

You’ll need to run it with a Atari 2600 emulator or install it on a writable cartridge for use on Atari 2600 console.

Discussion: http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=145539

http://www.tacticalneuronics.com/content/AtariKeepAway.asp

For those of you who haven’t played it, this game has elements of Pitfall, Adventure, and Jungle Hunt. The object of the game is to return Blackbeard’s skull to your ship. To do this, you must collect two map pieces and the shovel. Once you have the map pieces, and ‘X’ will appear on the screen where the skull is buried, and you’ll need the shovel to dig it up. You’ll also need the torch to explore the caves in the game. Several enemies will make completing your mission difficult including cannibals, poisonous frogs, birds, and snakes. If you can find the sword, you’ll at least be able to defend yourself. Like Adventure, there’s a bat that likes to steal objects and drops them off on other parts of the island. As with Pitfall, there are deadly pits for you to fall into…

The player can run, jump, crouch, and sword fight. Push up to draw your sword (if you have it) and push fire to jump. Lives are on the lower left, health on the lower right, and inventory is at the bottom. You will lose the sword and the skull when you die and these will go to random locations.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=145790

Tank combat game, running from the VCS RAM.

Release notes:

Got it! I forgot I did not use tsx to get #$FF into X any more, so I set the stack pointer to 1 so I could save a byte by doing a tsx instead of the ldx #1. I think this will be the final version.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=143694

Devin updated his Punch Out style Atari 2600 homebrew game K.O. Cruiser.

Release notes:

I’ve attached the final-final-FINAL version of the binary. They are identical to the last upload, but with the character selection screen removed. I’ll attach an almost-complete instruction manual tonight or tomorrow.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=121541&st=350