Atari 2600 News
You pilot a Fighter Plane over a rainbow spectrum of enemy cities and blast them into smithereens. Your plane swoops lower and lower with each pass, kind of like space invaders only you are the invader. You can accelerate (turbo) which turns up the action, particularly when things get interesting as you progress through the spectrum and an Artillery ground unit starts defending the cities (again like space invaders in reverse). Watch your speed and timing, the ground unit will chase you and try to blast you down. It’s heavily armored but you can stun it for a brief respite if you hit it just right.
Make sure to grab the binary dated 7th September, as it fixes a flickering bug.
http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/187460-cityscape-new-2600-game/
Nitebear must save the souls of kidnapped orphans from insidious aliens! Fight through 9 top down scrolling stages! Rescue orphan ghosts in bonus levels! Can you defeat the final boss?
Thanks to theloon for the news.
http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/169496-nitebear-on-sleepystreet/
Epic Adventure by Byte Knight is an entirely new Adventure game built from the ground-up featuring 32 rooms / mazes with all-new items and enemies (see picture below). It’s kind of a mixture of Adventure and Lord of the Rings. The goal of the game is “the usual” – get the golden chalice back to your home castle. But first, you must kill the Dragon in order for the chalice to appear in one of three places – the Wizard’s Castle, the Dragon’s Castle, or the Troll’s Cave.
http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/184924-epic-adventure/
atari2600land updated his remake of “Beauty and the Beast”, based upon the Intellivision game.
Release notes:
Today’s update. Press fire at the title screen to begin. You go up the closed windows, not the open ones.
http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/159407-beauty-and-the-beast/
atari2600land has updated his single and two player simultaneous play variant of a very well known Russian block game.
Release notes:
I found a way to make the game faster when the blocks are clearing. As usual, let me know if there’s any bugs, especially in the 2-player mode.
http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/153710-2600tris/page__st__150
Frantic by SpiceWare is a game for Atari 2600/VCS inspired by Berzerk. Basically you have to kill everything that moves.
Changes:
Added Sound Effect routines, along with some preliminary sound effects.
http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/186560-frantic-2600/page__view__findpost__p__2361400
Epic Adventure by Byte Knight is an entirely new Adventure game built from the ground-up featuring 32 rooms / mazes with all-new items and enemies (see picture below). It’s kind of a mixture of Adventure and Lord of the Rings. The goal of the game is “the usual” – get the golden chalice back to your home castle. But first, you must kill the Dragon in order for the chalice to appear in one of three places – the Wizard’s Castle, the Dragon’s Castle, or the Troll’s Cave.
Changes:
* Added level III with randomized items.
* Level I is easier – two stabs to kill dragon, one to kill troll. No hawk or wizard (so my kids can beat the game!).
* Different title screen – I think the Evil Magician’s castle & gate looks cooler…
* Orc disappears after you kill the wizard, so you’re free to explore.
* Should work on Harmony cart now (untested).
http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/184924-epic-adventure/
atari2600land has updated his single and two player simultaneous play variant of a very well known Russian block game.
Release notes:
Next shape toggling turned back on, plus a very minor code change.
http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/153710-2600tris/page__st__150
atari2600land has updated his single and two player simultaneous play variant of a very well known Russian block game.
Release notes:
Bug discovered and taken care of in the 2-player version.
http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/153710-2600tris/page__st__150
Wickeycolumbus is working on a small game, which is currently named “Muncher”. You play as a yellow square and your goal is to “eat” the red squares while avoiding aliens.
Release notes:
I kind of like the black background, but I’ll play around with other colors. I’m not sure what else I can do with the gameplay, but I might go 4K to include a title screen and SaveKey support.
http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/185388-muncher-2600/page__st__25