[HN Gopher] All Atari Games
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All Atari Games
Author : jamesandthewolf
Score : 105 points
Date : 2021-10-20 14:41 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (voxodyssey.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (voxodyssey.com)
| axus wrote:
| It's a nice list that goes up to "M", though I can't figure out
| how to look for titles after "Master Builder". Also, no "E.T."?
| ASalazarMX wrote:
| OTOH, I was surprised there was a LOTR game for the Atari VCS
| https://voxodyssey.com/atari-2600-the-lord-of-the-rings-jour...
| CmdrKrool wrote:
| E.T. is in the "VIEW ALL" list but it doesn't seem to show
| under "E", for some reason.
| CaioAlonso wrote:
| In case you want to play any of them I made a thing a few years
| ago for that https://cloudflare-
| ipfs.com/ipfs/QmacAqRVhJX9eS7YJX1vY3ifFKF...
| jrace wrote:
| WOW...great job!
| jamesandthewolf wrote:
| Did you make this, so good can I add it to the website or link
| over to it? I am being careful with ROMs as people have been in
| a bit of trouble for adding them onto their website
| TedDoesntTalk wrote:
| And you have BASIC! I had this on the original system, and it
| came with a special controller. How can I type on your
| emulator?
| deskamess wrote:
| The keys don't seem to work for me. Chrome/Windows. Trying to
| play Combat. I see the key mappings under the Gear icon.
| Clicking seems to bring up the menu items but the game never
| starts or I cant make it start.
| Firehawke wrote:
| No speed limiting on >60FPS displays is a bit of a problem, but
| neat project!
| harles wrote:
| 404. Pretty sure you meant https://voxodyssey.com/atari-2600. How
| did this get upvotes with the wrong URL?
| gandalfgreybeer wrote:
| I would guess people just love Atari games and assumed what it
| contained and didn't really click the link.
| airstrike wrote:
| That + I would imagine a lot of people upvote items to
| remember to read them later
| open-paren wrote:
| HN has a new feature that changes submissions from the linked
| url to the pages canonical url, and the bugs are still being
| exterminated on it.
| at-fates-hands wrote:
| Great article about Yars Revenge and one of my favorite Atari
| games:
|
| https://www.polygon.com/2015/3/9/8163747/yars-revenge-is-a-j...
| corysama wrote:
| Several years ago, a friend of mine read how Yars Revenge was
| originally intended to be Star Castle and took the
| "impossibility" of the task as a challenge.
| https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/698159145/atari-2600-st...
| jedberg wrote:
| https://voxodyssey.com/atari-2600-adventure
|
| From what I understand, this was the first game with an Easter
| egg that actually changed the gameplay. Sometimes there were
| walls that you could walk through (intentionally) that let you
| skip parts of the game.
| djmips wrote:
| The AtariAge database of 2600 games is more complete but the more
| the merrier.
| veganjay wrote:
| Indeed, Atari Age is great, has more games and rating:
| https://www.atariage.com/software_search.php?SystemID=2600
|
| Although, the gallery view on voxodyssey is fun to browse.
| kebman wrote:
| That's a great site! Is there anything similar for the Atari ST?
| nguillaumin wrote:
| Shameless plug: https://www.atarilegend.com/
|
| Our sister site also has other Atari platforms:
| http://www.atarimania.com/
| glitcher wrote:
| Looking back at these games, several of which I spent many hours
| playing and loving as a kid, I can't help but notice the striking
| disparity between the box art/game backstories and the actual
| screenshots of gameplay. I think the box art was much more than
| just a marketing tool - it also helped fuel our childhood
| imaginations into believing we were taking part in amazing
| adventures instead of only seeing the literal pixels on the
| screen. Ah, simpler times.
| kloch wrote:
| Title should specify (2600)
|
| I got excited thinking this would be for the 400/800 system...
| indigodaddy wrote:
| You'd think there would be a list for that too somewhere..
| jamesandthewolf wrote:
| Ahh I just discovered this website, anyway I am the owner of the
| website and yes its only up to M so far but I have a list of
| almost all the games to add the place to see all the systems so
| far is https://voxodyssey.com/game-consoles
|
| Its a work in progress I do this alone one person and have got
| the website to 688 next update will be around 710 or so games
| this is not spam either I really appriciate feedback and looking
| to get more exposure to the website but trying not to over push
| it
| mrandish wrote:
| I assume you are already aware of the active community of video
| game historians and preservationists involved with the retro
| arcade and console emulation movements (ie MAME/MESS, etc). If
| not, here's a link to get you started:
| https://www.progettosnaps.net/dats/
| jamesandthewolf wrote:
| What is this ive not seen this before emulators can get you
| in a bit of issues if you give over the roms though no?
| mrandish wrote:
| The retro preservation community is focused on documenting
| and archiving these historically significant creative and
| artistic interactive digital works for the long-term
| future.
|
| The preservation community is careful to steer clear of
| shorter-term legal and commercial issues. Copyright
| typically expires in less than a hundred years which is
| brief on art history timescales. Commercial interests in
| monetizing intellectual property are even more ephemeral.
| Even for immediate purposes, there are broad exemptions to
| copyright for non-commercial fair use including
| educational, scholarly, editorial and creative purposes
| throughout most of the world.
|
| This is well-trodden territory. Over the years the issues
| have been discussed at length in the preservation
| community. By searching terms such as "MAME", "MESS",
| "emulation", "preservation" and "fair use" you can find
| official position statements as well as detailed legal
| analysis and individual commentary (example:
| https://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2013/12/28/archive-org-
| covera...).
|
| Excerpt from the linked 2013 post by a long-time MameDev:
|
| > I feel it important to once again point out that MAME
| (and MESS) are NOT projects about playing free games and
| that we do not condone or facilitate large scale piracy.
|
| > What we provide is factual references, and emulation of
| hardware components. Our aim is to make these as good as
| possible, and be able to emulate ANY possible piece of
| software that might run on them; emulating and documenting
| more software allows us to improve our hardware emulations,
| improving our hardware emulations allows more software to
| run, naturally we reference what we have used to make this
| progress, but at no point do we actually provide it.
|
| > In terms of project goal you've only got to look at the
| MESS part of the codebase (that we now ship with the MAME
| source) to see there are emulations of random devices like
| EEPROM programmers, Car Computers, Digial Clocks and
| Homebrew computers etc. This hopefully shows that the
| project is about something much more important and with a
| much wider scope than what some people assume (that they're
| simply projects about playing games for free). Even in MAME
| we emulate things like Firmware update programs, and have
| skeleton drivers for Coin-operated Jukeboxes (and in the
| most recent update, an electronic Darts board) none of
| which would be included if it was merely a project about
| playing games. FWIW this has always been one of my
| arguments for fully combining the project binaries by
| default, it makes this position a LOT clearer because most
| of the cases that demonstrate this well do come from MESS.
|
| > I should also stress that popular systems in MESS are
| also often handled differently to other emulators, there
| are reasons we document the proper content of cartridges,
| and require real rom dumps for things like NES where
| possible (rather than simply using .nes files which lose
| this information) Design choices like this might make
| things more inconvenient for users (and has zero benefits
| in terms of playability) but does result in our history
| being better documented which is more important when it
| comes to the goals of the project and again emphasizes that
| this isn't simply a project about 'free games'
| rvnx wrote:
| MAME is likely ok but the ROMs of course not even if you
| pretend to be a museum.
|
| It's just tolerated by owners of the copyrights:
|
| + they don't know how to make money with it anyway
| because nobody wants to pay for it (except with physical
| arcade machines). + it can support the license
| credibility (e.g. Pac-Man). + the copyright owners may
| not be around anymore.
|
| Generally it's just not strategic to sue.
|
| "it's legal to distribute pirated copies of games if it's
| to preserve them", is a bit like the Disclaimer here:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Privacy_Act
| jamesandthewolf wrote:
| Just discovered this Forum so this website ycombinator.com
| yosefjaved1 wrote:
| Welcome! I don't think you will find a more appreciative and
| constructively critical crowd of your work from a technical and
| usage perspective. Please keep coming back with more of your
| work as we love to see it!
| jamesandthewolf wrote:
| im making a list of all the Atari games that I could find I can
| not track down information on these four titles so far can
| someone help me Bank Heist (Action Hi-Tech) The Fly (US Games)
| Golf (Sears) - 1980 Intuition (Tigervision) - Prototype
| reaperducer wrote:
| I have the Sears version of Golf sitting in front of me as I
| write this. It's the same game as Atari's Golf, just with the
| Tele-Games branding on the manual and the box.
|
| At the time, there were millions and millions of people who
| were loyal to the Sears brand, and would choose something from
| Sears over something from Atari.
|
| This extended into all kinds of products. For example, many
| major appliances from Sears were actually Whirlpool appliances
| with Kenmore branding. But people would rather buy them from
| Sears than Whirlpool, for a variety of reasons that are beyond
| the scope of an HN discussion.
| jamesandthewolf wrote:
| Thank you so much I really appricate this
| TedDoesntTalk wrote:
| As I recall, Sears also had their own Atari VCS console
| branded with the Sears name. Must have been a great licensing
| deal for Atari. Maybe I'm mis-remembering.
| neogodless wrote:
| I immediately searched for Missile Command, and did not find it.
| Thought maybe it wasn't 2600, but it is.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_Command
|
| Sibling comment points out AtariAge, which does have it.
|
| https://www.atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=3...
|
| My understanding now is that this is "All Atari Games up to
| _ma..._ " so far, an early work in progress.
| SavantIdiot wrote:
| 1980. My first 2600. Fighting with the family over our one TV set
| to watch the Lake Placid Olympics, Reagan's Inauguration, and
| play Atari Combat.
| dylan604 wrote:
| My interest in computer video was actually started from the
| gadget that connected the coax cable to the screw tab antenna
| connectors on TVs. Such a strange thing to think was the start
| of my curiosity, but that fascinated me just as much as the
| games. Been tearing things apart ever since.
| sidpatil wrote:
| Those devices are known as _baluns_.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balun
| egypturnash wrote:
| Holy shit there was an unfinished game based on a Residents
| album. Being written by someone AT ATARI.
| https://voxodyssey.com/atari-2600-mark-of-the-mole
|
| More here:
| http://www.digitpress.com/archives/cc_markofthemole.htm
| mzs wrote:
| There was a Journey game for the 2600, though my friend thought
| those were hotdogs in the screenshot. There was a pretty rad
| arcade version as well:
|
| https://www.etsy.com/listing/1037411366/journey-arcade-flyer...
| dole wrote:
| The big deal about the Journey arcade game at the time was
| that it had some of arcade video gaming's first
| "photorealistic" pictures of the band's heads for the game
| characters... which I'd estimate were probably like 32x32 3
| or 4 grayscale colored sprites minus the rest of the
| characters's body.
| SavantIdiot wrote:
| That is completely bonkers! I had no idea. The Residents were
| legendary. Heck, they still are. But surreal art rock never
| really took off, unless you consider their protege Primus (or
| the modest success of Negativland).
| indigodaddy wrote:
| We never had a 2600. We started our computer/video game
| adventures with an Atari 400 and boy do I have fond memories of
| Frogger and Defender, and typing up Basic programs on that
| 'keyboard.'
| karmakaze wrote:
| Me too. The 400 was my first and favourite--even like the
| keyboard, got it broke-in pretty soft. I learned more on it
| than I have perhaps since. I was playing Pacific Coast Highway
| and Galactic Chase.
| kyletns wrote:
| Why is your username name green for me?
| anthonyu wrote:
| Newly created account.
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