Atari 2600 News
Zombies by Marc Vittorini for Atari 2600. Zombies turns survival into a tense resource-grab. Push a shopping cart through a minefield while the undead close in. Every step counts. Original description: In a barren world devastated by an apocalypse that has turned the population into hordes of the walking dead, a lonely survivor pushes a shopping cart through the ruins … Read more
https://marc-vittorini.itch.io/zombies
4th Annual Atari Homebrew Awards is celebrating the best in new Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, Atari 8-bit Computer, and Atari Lynx homebrew games released in 2021! Voting is now open!VOTE on your favorite homebrew games in seventeen different categories. Voting closes on February 6th, so make sure you make your voice heard on your favorites!
Are you a developer? 8bitworkshop now supports ColecoVision, MSX, Sega Master System, Bally Astrocade, and Atari 7800!
KevKelley developed a tiny game for his son called Santa’s Sprint. More fixes might be coming. Player 1 is Santa. He has to get the present under the tree and then get back to the fireplace (pressing the fire button to get back up). Player 2 is a trap set up by those pesky children. Player 2 has to touch … Read more
Bushido is a new fighting game by Captain Spazer for the Atari VCS. Please mind its a two player game only.
If you are looking for a rather nice and excellent Galaga remake for your Atari VCS you may thank johnnywc for picking up this thought and providing Galaga 2600. Right now the game is about 99% complete. Currently the team targets a release for sometime in late 2019, possibly at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo in October 2019. Get the … Read more
JeremiahK is a big fan of challenges as he coded a Ramless Pong game in 1kb only, which basically does not use any onboard RAM. Release notes: You need to be some sort of masochist to code for the VCS, because the system is so limiting. One of its most well-known limitations is the mere 128 bytes of RAM on … Read more
BNE Jeff has an ambitious project and tries to recreate Space Taxi for the Atari VCS. There is no real release yet but you can read and follow the development process on the AtariAge boards.
atari2600land updated his Atari VCS game Golf (Channel F). Release notes: Found and fixed a bug about moving above one tree when there were two trees on the screen at once. I also changed hole #8, to make it more challenging. I don’t think I can possibly come up with 10 more hole ideas, so I’ll leave the total number … Read more
Considering you are looking for a new golf game for your Atari VCS device, you may want to try atari2600land‘s Golf (Channel F). 🛡️ Click to play — activates YouTube and transfers data to Google.