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super pro racers

A 48K overhead racing game for the Atari 7800 ProSystem. This game takes advantage of the rarely-used high-res mode of the system and also supports simultaneous split-screen 2 player action across 6 different tracks.

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panky the panda

In this metroidvania-style 16KB adventure game for the Atari 2600/VCS, you play Panky the Panda, on an epic quest to save your kidnapped brother from evil poachers.

Your goal is to jump your way around 120+ screens of the poachers' underground lair, collecting 6 keys and various other items needed to unlock doors and complete the quest to save your brother. The poachers' lair is packed with various minions as well as secret rooms disguised as unassuming walls, though, so stay on the lookout.

ROM download | Buy it at AtariAge.com

incoming!

In a world wracked with internecine tanks-falling-out-of-the-sky-in-the-desert warfare, you assume the role of tank commander, battling it out against a friend or the computer in this 4KB artillery shooting game for the Atari 2600/VCS.

ROM download | Buy it at AtariAge.com

square raid 2600

An Atari 2600/VCS adaptation of a the javascript game 'Squareraid' listed below.

I started this mainly as an exercise to see whether it was possible to do, and if so, how many bullets and bombs could be put on the screen simultaneously (the answer was apparently 20).

I hesitate to call it a 'port' exactly, as the gameplay is a little bit different than the original due to the constraints of the system. Still pretty fun, though.

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panda jump

A Panky-the-Panda-spinoff game for Galaxian arcade hardware.

You play as an anonymous panda, who will apparently risk his life to get his favorite bamboo, even if it means falling into lava.

In the tradition of early 80s arcade games, it's hard, and only the best will persevere in jumping their way through all 9 levels.

(Note: to play this in MAME, it has to be run from the command line (i.e. 'mame galaxian'). It will still fail the ROM checksum, but it will start.)

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RAM OK ROM OK

A graphics/music demo for Galaxian arcade hardware.

Something I put together over the course of 2023 to see what I could get out of the hardware. Features some fractals, a rotating column, a scaling/zoom effect, and some animated plasma.

(Note: to play this in MAME, it has to be run from the command line (i.e. 'mame galaxian'). It will still fail the ROM checksum, but it will start.)

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table tennis

One of the more obscure systems in video gaming history, the Entex Adventure Vision only ever had 4 games released for it during it's (very short) heyday. That makes the audience for this 1 or 2 player classic paddle game almost nonexistent. It was fun to write, though!

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a very 2600 christmas

"Hey wouldn't it be cool if I could listen to Christmas music on my Atari 2600?" ...said no one ever. Which is why I made this collection of 8 different Christmas songs to listen to on your Atari 2600.

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square raid

This game was made by me as an entry in the JS1K contest a number of years back.

You are a flying square, raining death from above as you mercilessly carpet bomb enemy squares trying to shoot you down. Steel yourself for the challenge in this, the most action-packed, simplistic, monochrome-graphics game that can possibly be fit into 1 kilobyte of javascript (IMHO).

Controls are W/A/D for up/left/right and B for bomb! Score appears in the upper left corner of the screen.

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gamecube sopwith

This is a port I did of the classic DOS game 'Sopwith' to the Nintendo Gamecube & Wii. It's not quite as impressive an achievement as it sounds, though - it's really just a port of 'SDL Sopwith' by Simon Howard, which is itself a cross-platform port of the original CGA DOS game written by David L. Clark.

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