👾🕹️ Atari Mania | "Well This Looks Bloody great!" 👾🕹️ #Retrogaming #Atari

Microgame mayhem is front and centre as iconic retro publisher Atari today unveils an all-new teaser trailer for its upcoming trek into eras past.

Atari Mania

Atari Mania sees players take on the role of Caretaker of the Atari Vault, the repository for all classic Atari games. 

However, one day, chaos is unleashed as dead pixels suddenly appear in the Vault and begin wreaking havoc.

As showcased in the groovy new teaser trailer, familiar and treasured games begin to warp, mutate and combine into a series of increasingly crazy challenges!

🕹️ Atari - 50 Not Out? 🕹️ #Atari #RetroGaming

So Atari has nearly hit the big 5-0! Here's an insight into what the legendary Atari brand has in store for its 50th year of birth...

☆ My 80's Bedroom Coding Adventures! ☆ #Atari #Retrogaming

When I got Atari XEGS video games system for Christmas around 1989 I was about 9 years old and I remember this feeling that I was a part of something futuristic. 

I had a computer with a keyboard, a cartridge slot, a light phaser and a tape deck that was living in my bedroom!

☆ Video Game Hardware Timelines - Atari: 1979 to 1995 ☆ #Retrogaming

I'm a sucker for video games related infographics and recently I have been messing around Inkscape to work out a way to display timelines for Video Games Hardware from the legendary video games companies such as Atari, Nintendo and SEGA.

☆ Codemasters Classics ☆

Codemasters have been with us since 1986 and their logo from those days is instantly recognisable by retro video gamers the world over.

☆ "Trip The Video Game Lightgun Fantastic!" ☆ #Retrogaming

After hearing a video games discussion on the Giant Bomb Beast cast all about Lightguns it got me thinking about how today’s video games generally don’t necessitate the need for these cool peripherals and how over the years I have played with a fair few awesome lightguns.

Here just for you are my PERSONAL TOP 10 Lightguns that I have had the pleasure to play with…

☆ 7 Video Games That I Would Love To See Remade Properly ☆ #Retrogaming #GamersUnite

There are so many games that I would love to see get the remake/reboot treatment and this 7 are my real desires.

Kickstarters are a wonderful thing and if Shenmue 3 can get made then I’m certain the following 7 would garner enough support in a Kickstarter world to get made.

☆ The A To Z Of Atari - X is For ☆ #Retrogaming #GamersUnite

X is for...........

Atari XE/XL

☆ The A To Z Of Atari - Q is For ☆ #Retrogaming #GamersUnite

Q is for.......

sword QUEST

☆ The A To Z Of Atari - O is For ☆ #Retrogaming #GamersUnite

O is for.............

Octopus Operation Outlaw

☆ The A To Z Of Atari - M is For ☆ #Retrogaming #GamersUnite

M is For.............

Missile Command

☆ Built In Video Games from The Third Generation ☆ #retrogaming #gamersunite

As I think about entering into the world of the 8th Generation of consoles I cast my mind back to the 3rd Generation of consoles.

The thing that sticks out in my mind is the two consoles that I owned from that generation and the fact that both consoles had some really cool built in games.

☆ My All Time Favourite Ninja Video Games ☆ #Retrogaming #Gamersunite

Ninjas are cool - FACT
Every little boy growing up in the 80's wanted to be a Ninja - FACT
Ninja Video Games are awesome! - FACT

☆ The Atari 800 And Me ☆ #Retrogaming #GamersUnite #Atari

The retro gaming machine that holds a dear place in my heart has to be the Atari 800 XE/XL.

 

I've written about this ugly duckling of the computer games world before and how it came into my possession as a second choice to the ZX Spectrum.

 

I've grown to love this grey beauty and even more so as I look back on the many hours that I spent loading tapes and playing some of the cool games that introduced me to the wonderful world of 8-bit computers.

 

So the question is, which games do I fondly remember the most on my beloved Atari 800……..let's take a look, shall we?

☆ 5 Retrogaming Moments That Shaped My Video Games World ☆

When I think back to when I was young gamer there were 5 distinct experiences with 5 different machines that laid the foundation for my eternal love of Video Games.

It was these exposures to these legendary systems which meant that I am still a gamer today.

☆ Terrible Video Games That You Played Till The Bitter End! ☆ #GamersUnite #Retrogaming

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When I was young video games pup my video games collection was small and usually well researched so most of my games were quality games.

BUT every now and again I would be tempted by an untested unknown game that was going for a pocket money price. 

This usually resulted in the game being atrocious and me becoming ultimately disappointed. 

The thing is, once I owned a video game I felt compelled to play it to the end whether it was a terrible game or not. 

This led to me playing through some real awful games over the years that I really should have just walked away from on day one!

 

I've pulled together a list of Five Terrible Video Games That I Played Till The Bitter End! (sometimes the bitter end was me smashing up the cartridge / tape in disgust and frustration!)

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Have YOU Played Any Of These Shockingly Bad Games?

☆ "Everyone Had A Spectrum Except Me!" ☆

My Dream Machine

 

Growing up everyone had a Spectrum or if they were really lucky they owned an Amstrad!

I spent my entire time going round to my friends houses after school to play these machines and really liked the idea of owning my own "Speccy" with a disk drive......surely (at the time) the most advanced piece of kit out there! 

☆ If Only I Had The Room ...... ☆ #Retrogaming #GamersUnite

I often think, if only we had the room........

If only we had the room to buy all the consoles and computers we have owned over the years and maybe some of the ones we didn't own!

So that got me thinking, would I be able to remember the machines I had bought?

If only I had the room and the plug sockets to buy them all again!

☆ An Ode To The SNES ☆ #Retrogaming #GamersUnite

Before my first SNES in 1991 I was brought into the world of video games from owning my trusty and often amazing Atari 800 XE/XL. The thing I loved about the 800 XE/XL was the fact that it had a cartridge slot! 

To me at that point in time the cartridge slot was the most amazing invention, it meant INSTANT GAMES!

........Games Freezer - Switching On....

GAMES FREEZER IS SWITCHED ON..........who's going to turn it off?!

GAMES FREEZER IS READY......

10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD!"

20 GOTO 10

The Games Freezer Team began with programming an Atari 800 XE/XL back in 1988, so what better way to start the Games Freezer's life than a good old Hello World.

Check out this cool retro site dedicated to Atari 8 Bit Games and Programming, it's choc full of content and memories from a golden age of computing and games.

 Atari 8 Bit Forever