A sci-fi adventure game by jrok set on a space station filled with evil mutants and robots. Your goal will be to locate the station’s death ray and disable it before the bad guys use it to destroy mankind.

Release notes:

I went with 32K supercharger and the standard bB kernel here, so I can try to squeeze in as many variables as possible. Here’s what I have so far:

– A game world with four rooms, arranged horizontally
– Two types of playfield objects: Walls (which you bang into) and Teleporter Pads (which you use to teleport between decks)
– The Player character can move left and right, duck and use a Teleporter Pads by pressing fire when he’s standing on one.
– Two monsters roam the upper and lower decks. For now, they just move in one direction until they hit a wall, then turn around. Both monsters are “persistent” in that their position in the game map and their collisions are constantly tracked. So, when a monster bangs into a wall in the unseen room next door, he will still turn around and head back the other way.

Since this is my first attempt at a homebrew, feedback and ideas (EDT: and bug reports!) would be greatly appreciated. I’m also documenting my development process at my atariage blog, and will continue to post new mini-builds there as I go forward.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=131950

Dungeon is a dungeon game for Atari 2600.

Release notes from s0c7:

F4 should work. Dungeon doesn’t use a SuperChip.

I believe I have discovered the cause of the remaining jitter. This version should (hopefully) remedy that once and for all (be sure to let me know if you see any and what was going on at the time).

Thanks to everybody who has helped root out all the little annoying glitches along the way!

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=127378&st=50

Juno First is intended to be an Atari 2600 port of the arcade game of the same name. Naturally the Atari 2600 version requires some significant simplifications, but the main elements are there. The visual style of the game is similar to Beamrider, but it plays quite differently.

The awesome sprite graphics were created by Nathan Strum, and the the excellent title music was created by Erik Ehrling (moderntimes99).

Release notes:

Many thanks to everyone who has been testing my game. Here is the second release candidate, which contains the following changes:
The grey high-score table is now slightly lighter (when an AtariVox/SaveKey is not used).
Pressing up/down on the joystick during the title screen will change the starting wave (unless the right difficulty switch is set to A).
The wave number speech now increases to a higher pitch.
The description of “continue mode” in the manual has been updated.

I will be very grateful for testing by people who own AtariVox/SaveKey units. For some reason the game isn’t saving the high scores when I use my AtariVox, although it works fine with my SaveKey and with Stella. I suspect that my AtariVox may have a bad EEPROM, or there is a bad connection.

Thanks,
Chris

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=125269&st=275

Boxiz is a new game from atari2600land.

Release notes:

Here’s my latest game (in a pre-proof-of-concept stage.) Basically what you do is go around the screen getting boxes (which haven’t been implemented yet) and putting them down at the bottom. Once you get down to the bottom, a new box will pop up for you to get. And, of course, there will be an enemy. The movement is kind of like Frogger, only you want to avoid the playfield as it scrolls left or right. This is a test to see if I could get player0 moving correctly (which I did.) I want to make the goal different from Frostbite, though. I got the idea for this game after reading about Zzyzzyx in KLOV.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=131921

Do you remember the two farting guys “Terrance & Phillip” from South Park? Now those two guys have their very own computergame on the Atari 2600 platform.

Release notes from atari2600land:

OK, I think I finally got level 5’s background color down pat. It’s still gray, but then I realized that Terrance’s shoes weren’t visible. So I changed them to black, which meant changing the opening/title screens’ background color to white. I also made level 1 day instead of night so you could see his shoes better. I also made small changes to Terrance’s walking sprites.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=121915&st=100

Dungeon is a dungeon game for Atari 2600.

Release notes from s0c7:

I still haven’t been able to replicate the problem on my system. However I would like to fix this if possible. All the varying hardware out there can make it difficult to have something universally compatible.

Try this version and let me know if it makes any difference on the TV that is giving you problems.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=127378&st=50

How to play:

Choose a play and watch it unfold, as your teammates run along their routes…

Get ready to pass the ball to an open catcher, and lead him to the goal zone!

But watch out for the blocky-blocker, who can intercept the ball and stop your catchers before they score.

Release notes:

Hi,
here’s an updated version of the game 🙂

– Atarivox : changed some parameters to make the voice sound more ‘lively’

– eeprom : included Thomas Jentzsch updated I2C library – now you can load/save your plays with the Stella emulator, too

– ‘turn over’ message has priority over both ‘out of bounds’ and ‘time’s up’ messages

– new gameplay element: you now have 4 seconds to choose a play (and so does the CPU), otherwise you get a ‘time’s up’ ‘penalty’

– when the blocker tackles a catcher, it is slowed down due to the effort (this should make harder to go tackling both catchers at will – so to prevent the cpu pitcher from throwing the ball)

– at the end of the game, a simple ‘victory dance’ is performed by the winning team

Have fun !
Simone

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=129173

Wickeycolumbus is having an attempt to create a “Super Mario” style game for the Atari 2600. It’s currently in early stages and there is no actual gameplay.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=131268

Juno First is intended to be an Atari 2600 port of the arcade game of the same name. Naturally the Atari 2600 version requires some significant simplifications, but the main elements are there. The visual style of the game is similar to Beamrider, but it plays quite differently.

The awesome sprite graphics were created by Nathan Strum, and the the excellent title music was created by Erik Ehrling (moderntimes99).

Release notes:

OK, here is the first Release Candidate for Juno First. The plan is to release it on a cart in time for the AA holiday sale (assuming there will be one this year!). The changes since last time are:
Fixed a number of screen jumps and trivial bugs.
Added some excellent AtariVox speech from mos6507.
The AtariVox now speaks the wave number at the beginning of each wave.

You won’t notice too many changes unless you have an AtariVox. As usual, I will be very grateful for any bug reports in this version, and it would be great if someone could test it on a 7800. I’m now declaring a feature freeze, but I’m still open to minor tweaks if there is anything that you find annoying.

Thanks,
Chris

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=125269&st=250

Weightman is a weight lifting game for Atari 2600, coded by donnerkuh, in tribute of Germany’s gold medal at the recent Olympic Games 2008.

Release notes:

My demo has no difficulty-levels, it is only a tutorial, to learn the steps:

First step: joydown
Second step: hold joydown and press fire
Third step: hold joydown and stop pressing fire

Later, it will be harder and harder to do the three steps, and we will see if you a really good weight lifter, or not…

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=131663