#atari homebrew

[steamboatops]

JUMPER is an Atari 2600 game that will be releasing in a few weeks.

This Atari 2600 game contains 3 levels and 2 difficulties and is the first game of mine using bAtari Basic to have Audio, though the Audio is primitive it’s still my first time using it.

The project will be released for the Atari 2600 via Emulation, Physical Cartridges are not planned at this moment in time, due to a lack of spare money for them. Though if you’re not hacking the game, you are free to make your own physical copy, cartridge images and ROM files will be free to obtain.

A teaser for this project is available now:

Further information will be available on Tumblr and on itch.io, link to itch.io is here.

Thanks for all the patience for new information, I’ll be out with more information very soon. 😁

- Brock (@prowoodstuff)

[steamboatops]

JUMPER IS AVAILABLE NOW

After a short wait, the game is out NOW on Atari 2600 and can be downloaded on Itch.io and Gamejolt

The download includes the following:

The Game

Manual

Box Cut Out for Physical Replicas

A4 Printable Poster

I hope people enjoy this game, any issues DM me on here, Gamejolt and (if it has DM’ing) Itch.io.

<3 Brock (@prowoodstuff)

[thadeeliv]

when will curtis p return from war...

[johnnytenspeed]

Ms. Snake

Snake. It’s that game pretty much everyone has played at one time or another because it’s been adapted to pretty much everything with a screen. Computers. Cell phones. Calculators. Those things diabetics use to check their blood sugar.

It was ported to the Atari 2600 in the 80′s too, but the few people who weren’t put off by the name Tapeworm and actually bought it were put off by the relentlessly shrill sound effects. Ms. Snake offers a nice, no-frills alternative.

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/215913-ms-snake-is-coming/

[johnnytenspeed]

D.K. VCS

Don’t tell Big N, but there’s a sweet piece of eye candy out there for the 2600 that looks and awful lot like a certain Big Ape.

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/206497-dk-vcs/

[johnnytenspeed]

Handy Pick Hank

Remember growing up with an Atari 2600 and being jealous of all your Odyssey2 friends who got to play Pick-Axe Pete! while you were--

Wait. %&!@. I already did this joke.

Um, yeah, Pick-Axe Pete. It’s sort of Donkey Kong, but mostly not. On the off chance you actually were jealous of all your Odyssey2 friends who got to play it, today is the day to finally get that monkey off your back.

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/262523-odtari-odyssey2-games-made-atari-2600-style/?p=3739525

[johnnytenspeed]

Railslider

Dual stick shooters never really caught on for home consoles because initially there weren’t really any good options for playing them on home consoles. Even now, with the twin-stick controller the standard for modern consoles, developers are so accustomed to not making dual stick shooters that they’ve largely continued to do so. The upside of this is that it’s the one video game genre that hasn’t been absolutely done to death.

I say this because Railslider is a dual stick shooter. That means not only is it wicked fun, but also that unless you have one of these or one of these or make one of these you may find it tricky to actually play on your Atari 2600.

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/251959-railslider-wip/

[johnnytenspeed]

Hugohunt

So hunting wumpuses isn’t your bag (endangered species, vital to the ecosystem, frequently eat people who get too close, etc.). Maybe hunting hugos is.

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/263409-hugohunt-new-8k-and-ntsc-version/