Donkey Kong – The Atari 8-bit Arcade hack is finally here!
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
In 1981 Nintendo released one of the most famous games of all time, and that game was ‘ Donkey Kong ‘. A game in which you played as Mario that must avoid obstacles across a number of platforms, with sometimes a hammer in hand to save a damsel in distress from a giant ape called
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atari, Atari 5200, Atari 8bit, Conversion, Darryl1970, DONKEY KONG, Labels: Arcade, Nintendo, OVERHAUL, PORT, REMAKE, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming
Whitewater Madness – Move over Toobin you’ve got destructive competition (Atari STe)
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
I’m pretty sure many of you remember the Arcade game ‘Toobin’ by Atari Games, a game which featured two player fun in a competitive river race as you bounced off each other avoiding obstacles to get to the finish line. But now imagine a very similar game but this time you’re in a powerful ship
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Atari STe, AtariCrypt, FREE GAME, free games, GAMES, GAMING, Labels: ATARI, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming, Whitewater Madness
Draconian – An awesome 1980’s multi-directional shooter appears on the Atari 2600 (RC6)
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
Way back in 1981 many of us has the pleasure of playing the multi-directional arcade shooter of ‘Bosconian’, which was developed by Namco and put you in control of a space ship to score as many points as possible by destroying enemy missiles and bases while also avoiding asteroids, mines and other such ship destroying
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atari, ATARI 2600, Bosconian, Draconian, HOMEBREW, Labels: Arcade, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming, shooter, SpiceWare
The Way of the Exploding Fist – A fighting classic comes over to the Atari XL/XE
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
Here’s a game I remember fondly especially on my green screen Amstrad CPC 464, is ‘ The Way of the Exploding Fist’ ; a 1980s fighting game published by Melbourne House that appeared on many different systems such as the C16, C64, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, and even the Acorn! This rather famous game which
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atari, Atari XE, Atari XL, FIGHTING, GAMING, Labels: 8BIT, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming, The Way of the Exploding Fist
Pac-Mad – The final version of a great Pac-Man clone for the Atari XL/XE
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
One of the many different variants of the 1980’s Pacman has appeared on the Atari XL/XE, and this one is an updated homebrew called ‘ Pac-Mad ‘ programmed by BOCiANU with music by LiSU. In the original classic you took control of Pac-Man through a maze, eating all the pac-dots, avoiding ghosts or eating them
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atari, Atari XE, Atari XL, GAMES, GAMING, HOMEBREW, Labels: Arcade, Pac-Mad, Pac-Man, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming
Revision 2018 – Bombastic experience of Scene Demos!
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
As you probably guessed by now our previous post it was a complete April Fools, we could never leave the retro scene however much we tried! But to those of you who were a little upset with us, here’s a wicked post to keep you going through Sunday and beyond, it’s Revision 2018. Yes that’s
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AMSTRAD, atari, c64, Labels: Amiga, Music, PC, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming, Revision 2018
A look back at a much maligned classic Ninja Golf on the 7800
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
Ninja Golf is one of those games that’s best known as a meme. Its not something you actually play, more something you show off to illustrate how gonzo-wacky you are. So please allow me to talk about Ninja Golf to illustrate how gonzo-wacky I am. In retro circles, the most talked about thing regarding Ninja
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TRAIN – Snakes on the Train? A new Atari 8-bit game!
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
Another Atari XL/XE game to get your retro senses tingling as we’ve recently found out The BAHA SOFTWARE group has released a game called ‘ TRAIN ‘, which is a port of the Vlak game for IBM PCs from 1993 created by Miroslav Němeček. Now if you remember the classic of ‘Snake’ then you might know
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Atari 8bit, Atari XE, Atari XL, BAHA Software Group, GAMES, GAMING, Labels: ATARI, PORT, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming, Snake, TRAIN
Minotaur 16k – Will you find your way out in this difficult 16k mini maze game?
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
Some more Atari 8bit games appearing in our news feed as we’ve just learnt through the AtariAge forums that xxl has released his Atari 600XL (16KB RAM) mini game of ‘ Minotaur 16 ‘, which is a very challenging maze game that also works on the 65XE, 800XE, 800XL, 130XE and XEGS in PAL and NTSC. There’s
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Atari 600XL, GAMING, HOMEBREW, Labels: ATARI, MAZE, Minotaur 16k, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming
Escape 2042 – Fast paced platformer appears on the Atari STe
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
Thanks to a heads up by Ataricrypt we’ve recently learned that the fast paced platformer which was originally released for the Dreamcast, Gameboy, Megadrive and PC, has since been released for the Atari STe by Cedric Bourse / orionsoft.This game is set in a sci-fi futuristic time in which you play as Shun, a computer
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Atari STe, AtariCrypt, GAMES, GAMING, HOMEBREW, Labels: ATARI, Platformer, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming