Atari 2600 News
Tumulus (r32) (A2600 Game)

In Tumulus by yllawwally you are an adventurer, out to stop the fiends coming from Tumulus. This game is inspired by Golden Axe.

Changes/Notes:

New version, I fixed the scoring to support 5 digits, I thought I had added this a long time ago. I didn’t check to see if I broke it, or never completed it. But it now works. I enhanced the skyline, I think it looks better with a changing color when enemies are on the screen. The multi-sprite bosses no longer have the line that slides through them. I had to do a bunch of moving around to get enough cycles to skip the positioning code, if it was a boss. And somehow I never noticed that the roman number for 4 was backwards, and looked like a 6, oops.

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/213104-tumulus-2600/page-3

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Tumulus (r31) (A2600 Game)

In Tumulus by yllawwally you are an adventurer, out to stop the fiends coming from Tumulus. This game is inspired by Golden Axe.

Changes/Notes:

I’ve been pretty busy lately. However here is a new version. Killing a creature on lane 6, no longer causes a creature on another lane to die. This was related to the Boss code. I wasn’t clearing the link ID after a BOSS was shown, so that the link ID was still set to that lane. Some of the creatures couldn’t damage the player, was because I accidentally replaced the list of must defeat creatures with the list of creatures that can damage the player. Hitting a creature no longer causes an increase in the line count to 263. However it now causes a reduced line count to 261. I will need to test this on my TV, and see if it’s a problem that must be fixed. I changed the ordering of the monsters, this affected which ones need to be destroyed, and which can damage the player.

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/213104-tumulus-2600/page-3

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Larry the Lemon (Build 34) (A2600 Game)

Guide Larry the Lemon to collect gifts while being haunted by an enemy. Coded by atari2600land.

Release notes:

Thank you! Found a bug. If the bally<12 then the ball will bounce along the top wall and out of the screen. So I fixed that. Also, I put in the other title screen because I found a way to only have the PF0 be displayed during the game and not on the title screen.

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/219174-larry-the-lemon-was-black-friday/page-3

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Denderes Violence (20-12-2014) (A2600 Game)

Denderes Violence is a violent game by Retro Lord. You are a zombie hunter and you have too rid the world of the undead. Use your mighty gun too blast the horrible ghouls back to the grave! Can you survive the hoard? And most importantly, can you survive the horrible super zombies?

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/232962-first-game-denderes-violence/

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Larry the Lemon (Build 33) (A2600 Game)

Guide Larry the Lemon to collect gifts while being haunted by an enemy. Coded by atari2600land.

Release notes:

Yet another new version. I noticed that the thing to get wasn’t going as far right as the maze, and a quick look through the code revealed why. But it wasn’t that quick to solve the problem. It took a few hours, but not only did I solve it, I was able to change the pfcolor in game. To do this, I had to change the pfcolor yellow tint a little. I’ve used lots of weird tricks to make this 2k, so this game presented itself a real challenge to do. Let me know if you see any bugs. I do know that if you touch the banana and go back to the starting place and the thing to get is there too, that the game will play the “I got the thing” note instead of the “I touched the enemy” note, but that shouldn’t happen very often. I also had to put PF0=$ff in the game to get it to work properly, so there are now borders to the left and right of the screen always.

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/219174-black-friday/page-2

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Worst Resolution Ever (A2600 Demo)

Worst Resolution Ever is an Atari VCS demo by Coine, released at Silly Venture 2014.

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=64559

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Ascend (A2600 Demo)

Ascend by Cluster & DMA is a fresh Atari VCS Demo released at Silly Venture 2014.

Ascend by Cluster and DMA

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=64492

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Galactopus (28-09-2014) (A2600 Game)

Oh &%$@! Either the advance warning satellites are %&$#!@ again or there’s a giant %©#&$ space octopus heading straight for earth! Congressional budget cuts have reduced NASA to launching model rockets in the park but never fear, the private sector is here! For six easy payments of just $199,999,999,999.99, Astr-O-Corp has volunteered to send their prototype low orbit fighter to intercept Galactopus™. Since it’s still in the prototype phase, the laser cannons aren’t powerful enough to destroy Galactopus™, but they can chip away his Octonuim armor. Collect eight pieces of Octonium and add them to the ship’s reactors and the cannon will be powerful enough to finish Galactopus™ off once and for all!

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/229929-galactopus/

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Tumulus (r30) (A2600 Game)

In Tumulus by yllawwally you are an adventurer, out to stop the fiends coming from Tumulus. This game is inspired by Golden Axe.

Changes/Notes:

;BUGS
;1 line of player is discolored
;tree doesn’t damage player
;make dragon not move
;make dragon fire move

;when you kill a monster on lane 3, the screen flickers for a moment
;Skyline is messed up, when monsters on screen, need to adjust color palette
;fire potion doesn’t kill only brings them down to zero(artificially say they are hit to kill?)
;Using potion sometimes messes up creature, perhaps only on last lane
;Rat is miscolored

;FIXED
;Minor Graphics fixes
;added some new enemy graphics
;bottom part of boss no longer changes direction when hit.

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/213104-tumulus-2600/page-3

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Jupiter Sumo (Atari 2600 Game)

Jupiter Sumo by linde is an Atari VCS game, released in August 2014.

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=64021

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