Atari Alumni

It might seem hard to believe today, but back in 1982 the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was huge. It didn’t have the “teen appeal” of Titanic or Twilight, but it was the kind of movie grandparents, parents and church youth groups could feel good about taking their little ones to see. And so take them [...]

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Atari Cosmos is a prototype game that was pretty much finished, but Atari decided to scrap at the last minute. (Partly (if not mainly) due to the fact that it really does suck as far as a game is concerned. They claimed it was 3-D or holographic, when in reality it was just a small [...]

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In the mid-1970’s the father of commercially successful video games, Nolan Bushnell was sitting on top of the world. A graduate of the University of Utah, Bushnell had just sold the company he had built, Atari, named for the Japanese word for “check” in the game of go, to Warner Communication for 28$ million. [...]

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The real story of Asteroids, Pac-Man, Pong and Pole Position…
1 Nolan Bushnell, Atari’s founding father, originally named the company Syzygy (the sun, moon and earth in total eclipse). He renamed it Atari because another company already owned the name Syzygy.
2 Bushnell is generally believed to be the author of Pong, Atari’s first game. Actually, [...]

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Being a pack rat does have its advantages if the stars are properly aligned - take Tanner Sandlin’s case for example. He forked out anywhere from $5 to $10 when he was a 10-year old kid for the Air Raid Atari 2600 videogame, only to realize that it fetched a $31,600 price point on eBay [...]

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Launched in 1982, the Atari 5200 was Atari’s follow up to the wildly successful Atari 2600. Originally designated the Video System X (VSX), Atari briefly considered the name P.A.M. (Personal Arcade Machine) which also happened to be the 5200’s codename. However in the end Atari settled on the Atari 5200 Super System since [...]

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Launched in 1977, the 2600 is considered by many to be the first true programmable home video game system. While this may not technically be true (the Fairchild Channel F and RCA Studio II were released several months earlier), it was certainly the most successful system of its time. Due to its enormous [...]

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What is it?
To cut a long story short, it’s a modified JagCD encryptor that uses the Skunkboard for transfers instead of Xmodem (as is the original version that Matthias Domin offers on his website). It was hacked up in 1-2 days after Sh3 got his JagCD.
How do I use it?
Easy really, just get a Jaguar, [...]

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The Jaguar Universal Loading System is designed to remove the hassle from the process of creating and producing both encrypted single-load CDs and your own similar personal CD Images for the Atari Jaguar.
Using our Windows application you will be able to produce bootable, encrypted Jag CD images which can then be burned to CD-R with [...]

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Beebris is a fun single-player puzzle game featuring several challenging game modes. Based on the popular tetromino arcade games, Beebris has 40 levels of difficulty, web-based high score tables and true one-more-game addictiveness. The four distinct game modes are:
BEEBRIS
This is the standard game mode. Points are scored by making complete horizontal lines of blocks in [...]

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