Posted on July 17, 2023
YouTube Short: B.C.’s Quest for Tires
B.C.’s Quest for Tires is a horizontally scrolling video game designed by Rick Banks and Michael Bate and published by Sierra On-Line in 1983. Versions were released for the Commodore 64, IBM PC, Atari 8-bit family, ColecoVision, ZX… Read More
Posted on July 16, 2023
Atari 8-Bit Computers Commercials from the 1980s
The Atari 8-bit lineup of home computers – the Atari 400/800. Atari 600XL and 800XL, and Atari 65XE and 130XE – were all heavily promoted on network television during the 1980s. The ad spots usually promoted the educational,… Read More
Posted on May 21, 2023
Star Raiders for Atari 8-Bit: Blow Up Your Own Starbase
Occasionally, you’ll find yourself overwhelmed and about to lose a star war(s). That’s when you might as well go rogue and blow up your own starbases! Star Raiders is a first-person space combat simulator for the Atari 8-bit… Read More
Posted on May 21, 2023
PokerSAM – The Talking Poker Opponent for the Atari 400/800/XL/XE
PokerSAM is a one-player poker game for the 8-bit Atari. The player competes against a single-voiced opponent, Sam, in a two-player game of five-card stud poker. The game uses the Software Automatic Mouth, or S.A.M. speech synthesis program… Read More
Posted on May 21, 2023
Jawbreaker for 8-Bit Machines – YouTube Short
Here’s a preview of Jawbreaker, which was an early Pac-Man clone that got On-Line Systems in a bit of legal hot water from Atari. I have a full review of the game on the way soon! Follow me… Read More
Posted on May 21, 2023
Canyon Climber on the Atari 400/800/XL/XE
Canyon Climber is a video game designed for the TRS-80 Color Computer in 1982. The game was ported to the Atari 8-bit family, the Apple II, and PC-6001. Canyon Climber is a three-screen platform game with an American… Read More
Posted on May 21, 2023
Beef Drop (Burgertime Clone) for Atari 400/800/XL/XE, Atari 5200, and Atari 7800
Late AtariAge user Ken “Kenfused” Siders ported the popular arcade game Burgertime to the Atari 8-bit computers, giving it the name Beef Drop. This version of Burgertime began life as a 2004 April Fool’s joke in the AtariAge… Read More
Posted on May 21, 2023
Pacific Coast Highway for Atari 8-Bit Computers
Pacific Coast Highway is a 1982 video game written by Ron Rosen and published by Datasoft for the Atari family of 8-bit computers. The game is a Frogger clone, but it differs a bit, due to the road… Read More
Posted on May 21, 2023
Atari 8-Bit History: Preppie – Not Just Another Frogger
Preppie was published by American computer game publisher Adventure International, which was best known at the time for the Scott Adams adventure game series, which included such popular games as Adventureland, Pirate Adventure, Savage Island, and various others…. Read More
Posted on May 21, 2023
Chicken by Synapse for Atari 400/800/XL/XE
Chicken is one of my favorite Atari 8-bit games from the Eighties. It has a lot of the same gameplay elements as Activision’s Kaboom while adding a few twists of its own. The game shares features of Atari’s… Read More