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Have You Played Atari Today? 2600 | 5200 | 7800 | Lynx | Jaguar | Forums | Store Systems 2600 5200 7800 Lynx Jaguar Community Forums Member Blogs Contests Features Hosted Sites Reference Magazines Comics How To Glossary Trivia AtariAge Store Store Home 2600 5200 7800 Jaguar ColecoVision Hardware Site Home About Contact Submit News Contribute News Archive Mailing List Title Search Title: System: 2600 5200 7800 Lynx Jaguar Region: North America Europe South America Asia Australia [ALL] New 2019 Homebrew Releases Now Available! December 8, 2019 Posted by Albert Submit News | Archives The new releases from October's Portland Retro Gaming Expo are now available to purchase online! In total we have nine new 2600 games, one new 5200 game, and one new 7800 title! You can click on the images below to jump directly to each game's entry in the store. Here's a list of the new games: Aardvark (2600) Amoeba Jump (2600) A Roach in Space (2600) Dragon's Descent (2600) Evil Magician Returns II (2600) Galagon (2600) Gyvolver (2600) Tyre Trax (2600) Wizard of Wor Arcade (2600) Scramble (5200) Baby Pac-Man (7800) We also have the AtariVox+ back in stock, which is used by four of the above new games for saving high scores, as well as by Wizard of Wor Arcade to replicate speech from the original arcade game! And, finally, we've added boxes as an option for about 50 games, including last year's new 2600, 5200, and 7800 boxed releases ( Dungeon II: Solstice , Mappy , Space Game , Froggie , and RealSports Curling ). Discuss in our Forum with other visitors... Atari Lynx 30th Birthday Programming Competition - Vote Today! September 16, 2019 Posted by Albert Submit News | Archives The Atari Lynx turned 30 in 2019 and Atari Gamer decided to turn this event into a momentous birthday party! The Atari Gamer Programming Competition was envisaged so that homebrew developers would bring a handful of new games to the Atari Lynx on its 30th Birthday. Instead, we got eleven new games across all genre styles! This ahead-of-its-time console is getting a whole lot of presents, so join in with us in celebrations, enjoy all the new games and keep on Lynxing! There are eleven new games for the Atari Lynx to celebrate its 30th Birthday. You can download their ROMs or play them in your web browser by following the links on this page . After you've played the games, please cast votes for your favorites ! You can also discuss the games and leave comments in the discussion threads for each of these new titles in our forum. Your voice will help determine the winners! The complete ROM package is available for download here . Inside you will find all of the original submissions, as well as a directory with converted LYX ROMs for AgaCart and a directory of ROMs and a special launcher to use with the Lynx SD cartridge. Be sure to have a look at the README.txt file for more instructions. And don't forget to vote ! Discuss in our Forum with other visitors... AtariAge Summer Sale through September 5th! August 22, 2019 Posted by Albert Submit News | Archives We've launched a Summer Sale with 10% off all 2600, 5200, 7800 and Jaguar games (minus pre-order games) in the AtariAge Store ! Now's a great time to pick up some of those homebrew games you've been eyeing but haven't yet pulled the trigger on! This sale is for two weeks only, and only applies to games, hardware is excluded. As a BONUS , any purchase of $200 or more will receive a free copy of Balloon Trip or Sheep It Up! , a $25 value! Sale ends on Thursday, September 5th, 2019 at 11:59pm CST! Please visit the AtariAge Store for complete details. Discuss in our Forum with other visitors... Tour of Ultimate 400/800 40th Anniversary Exhibit at VCF East August 8, 2019 Posted by Albert Submit News | Archives Our friend Curt Vendel of AtariMuseum.com attended the recent Vintage Computer Festival East , where he assembled an impressive exhibit covering the Atari 400/800 computers to honor the 40th anniversary of the Atari 8-bit computer line. Bill and Anthony of the The Guru Meditation YouTube channel were given a tour of this exhibit by Curt, where he describes some of the hardware and software on display. Besides the hardware that saw retail release that Atari 8-bit computer fans are familiar with, Curt also talks about some unreleased prototypes he had on hand, such an 850 Interface Module in a black, aluminum case, an 800D (Developer) system that had an expansion bus and serial ports on the side, and a cost-reduced Atari 800 "Collette" board where everything was on the main board as opposed to the use of expansion slots. Also on display was an interactive Atari sales kiosk featuring the ERIC Laserdisc demonstrator system. You can watch the video below: Discuss in our Forum with other visitors... New Updates at AtariProtos.com! July 30, 2019 Posted by Albert Submit News | Archives AtariProtos.com , a website that investigates and reviews unreleased prototypes for various Atari consoles, has uncovered new Work in Progress (WIP) versions of many Atari 2600 games. Many thanks to the efforts of Ken Van Mersbergen (Dutchman2000) for obtaining access to these games and sharing them with the community, and to Matt Reichert for reviewing these prototypes and describing how they differ from the released versions of the games. Several reviews of these prototypes have already been posted, with a promise of more to follow: Cosmic Swarm Fantastic Voyage Infiltrate Kangaroo Mr. Do's Castle Omega Race Popeye Star Wars: The Arcade Game Super Cobra Also discovered is a previously unknown game called Fighter Command , found in the collection of a former Roklan programmer. Not much is known about this particular game, but one prototype cartridge has the game labeled as "Combat II", not to be confused with the sequel to Combat (called Combat Two) that Atari was working on at one point. You can learn more about these prototypes by visiting the links above, and you can download the binaries themselves from this thread in our Prototypes forum. Discuss in our Forum with other visitors... 2019 Portland Retro gaming Expo - October 18-20! July 26, 2019 Posted by Albert Submit News | Archives AtariAge will be making an appearance at this year's Portland Retro Gaming Expo (PRGE), which starts Friday, October 18th and runs through Sunday, October 20th. We'll have a large booth near the main entrance, with a variety of new homebrew games making their debut, as well as demos of several games currently in development. Here are some of the games we're planning on making available for the first time in Portland: Aardvark (Atari 2600) Amoeba Jump (Atari 2600) Galagon (Atari 2600) Gyvolver (Atari 2600) A Roach in Space (Atari 2600) Tyre Trax (Atari 2600) Wizard of Wor Arcade (Atari 2600) Scramble (Atari 5200) Baby Pac-Man (Atari 7800) Demos will include Avalanche , ChaoticGrill , Deepstone Catabomb , Ninjish Guy in Low-Res World , Robot Zed , Tower of Rubble , Magicial Fairy Force , Arkanoid , and Adventure II XE . The Portland Retro Gaming Expo is one of the largest classic gaming events in the country, bursting at the seams with video games and game-related activities all weekend long! The PRGE Retrocade opens to the public at noon on Friday, featuring 30,000 square feet of full-size arcade games and pinball machines, and the main exhibition hall (along with the arcade) will be open Saturday and Sunday. Here's an incomplete list of what you'll find at the show: Exhibitors and Vendors selling classic gaming consoles and games Various panels in three separate auditoriums throughout the weekend Tons of special guests and speakers! Huge 30,000 square foot arcade PRGE live auction with many unique classic gaming items Tournaments throughout the show Cosplay contest Please visit the official Portland Retro Gaming Expo website to learn more about the show. If you're attending the show, please stop by our booth, say hello, and play some new games! Discuss in our Forum with other visitors... Ata...