Atari 2600 News

theloon decided to work on a horizontal scrolling game what is currently turning out to be a "The Great Giana Sisters" inspired platformer named The Sensational Santuci Sisters. The development is still in progress, so expect improvements in the near future. Read more about The Sensational Santuci Sisters (Build 36) (A2600 Game)

If it's about creative game names, this the Atari 2600 homebrew Explosive Diarrhea by Chris Read would probably win a prize. Guide people to a toilet, while avoiding to hit any mines hidden under earth. Read more about Explosive Diarrhea (11-12-2012) (A2600 Game)

Liquid Candy by Shadow/Noice and Ilmarque/Trilobit is some sort of candy indeed. It's a breath taking demonstration of what can be done with an Atari VCS system and in this brilliance so far the only of it's kind. Read more about Liquid Candy (A2600 Demo)

Prost by Digital Sounds System is a compofiller "demo" released at Evoke 2012. Read more about Prost (A2600 Demo)

Sound Coder by Digital Sounds System is an Atari 2600 Demo released at Stream 2012 (ranked 2nd in the oldschool demo compo). Read more about Sound Coder (A2600 Demo)

Skjutpung by tjoppen is a mix of Pong and a shooter. While you have to take care of the bouncing ball you, or you opponent, can also shoot bullets. It's not the most fancy idea in history of video gaming, but here is another game for our beloved Atari VCS. This game was another production entered in the competition pool at Revision 2012. It ranked 6th in the game development competition. Read more about Skjutpung (A2600 Game)

Stella Lives! by tjoppen is the winner entry of Revision 2012's oldschool demo competition. It shows couple of effects, has music and is overall a great demo to look at. Read more about Stella Lives (A2600 Demo)

Self Portrait by tjoppen is a procedural graphics entry released at Revision 2012. It was actually disqualified as the organizers probably did not get the point behind it. The motivation was that it's a converted picture, not actually a drawn one. Read more about Self Portrait (A2600 Techdemo)

Here is a WireCube for Atari VCS by Youth Uprising. Read more about WireCube VCS (A2600 Demo)

Tjoppen, who has made several Atari 2600 already, comes up with a small 3D experiment. The effect is table driven, 95 frames and sadly uses the entire 4k ROM, leaving no room for anything else. Read more about Plotcube (A2600 misc)