Atari 2600 News

gauauu tries to bring the excellent homebrew Game Boy Advance game Anguna (also available for Nintendo DS) to the Atari VCS. Read more about Anguna (29-02-2016) (WIP) (A2600 Game)

StarBlitz by Relational Framework is a game with the smoothest side scrolling ever seen on the Atari VCS. StarBlitz is written in Tiny BASIC and compiles to 3.5K, the BASIC runtime is 2K. Read more about StarBlitz (A2600 Game)

Could you imagine playing Mortal Kombat on your Atari VCS? Sure it might be far less spectacular and bloody than on the usual next generation systems, but Jinroh still has put a technical demo together and shows what might be possible in some way. Read more about Mortal Kombat (A2600 Techdemo)

Jinroh still works on his Atari VCS Jump'n Run Carrot Kingdom. Enjoy the second teaser video featuring the "Bread Cat". Read more about Carrot Kingdom (WIP 2) (A2600 Game)

Scramble 2600 is a fresh Atari VCS game by johnnywc. Scramble is a classic arcade game in which the player must navigate their ship across a side-scrolling terrain through six unique stages. Each stage has its own challenges and obstacles, including ground targets, rockets, fuel tanks, flying saucers and meteors. The player must avoid or destroy these hazards while maintaining the ship's limited fuel supply. The objective is to reach the end stage and destroy the enemy's base while trying to get a high score. Read more about Scramble 2600 (12-11-2015) (A2600 Game)

Sprybug is working on a new Atari VCS game named Robot Zed. The game is like a mix of Mega Man and Kirby with some new game mechanics. There is no demo yet, but two screenshots. Read more about Robot Zed (WIP) (A2600 Game)

Jinroh works on his first bigger Atari VCS Jump'n Run game called Carrot Kingdom. While the game development is still in progress you can already imagine it's going to be something really nice. Especially if you are looking at the standard commercial games released years ago. Read more about Carrot Kingdom (WIP) (A2600 Game)

atari2600land strikes again with Dr. Flin and His Pills. In this game, pills are coming from the right of the screen to the left. What you do is make sure the pill color matches the hole color it goes into. If not, or it touches the sides, the pill hole becomes smaller. There are four colors of pill: red, yellow, blue and green. The green pill should be destroyed by smashing it into the wall. If a green pill gets into any hole, all three holes will become smaller. Read more about Dr. Flin and His Pills v5 (A2600 Game)

atari2600land strikes again with Dr. Flin and His Pills. In this game, pills are coming from the right of the screen to the left. What you do is make sure the pill color matches the hole color it goes into. If not, or it touches the sides, the pill hole becomes smaller. There are four colors of pill: red, yellow, blue and green. The green pill should be destroyed by smashing it into the wall. If a green pill gets into any hole, all three holes will become smaller. Read more about Dr. Flin and His Pills v3 (A2600 Game)

atari2600land strikes again with Dr. Flin and His Pills. In this game, pills are coming from the right of the screen to the left. What you do is make sure the pill color matches the hole color it goes into. If not, or it touches the sides, the pill hole becomes smaller. There are four colors of pill: red, yellow, blue and green. The green pill should be destroyed by smashing it into the wall. If a green pill gets into any hole, all three holes will become smaller. Read more about Dr. Flin and His Pills v2 (A2600 Game)