#Atari++

[yodaprod]

Atari (1981)

[simkaye]

Imagine your dogs getting better at pac-man than you 💀

A little retro Atari homage🕹️ Prints and stickers on Patreon this month!

[retroscifiart]

Atari box art from Art of Atari: Poster Collection by Tim Lapetino (2017) 1/2

[gameraboy2]

Final Approach for the Atari 2600

[gaykarstaagforever]

I want to live in the world where Atari won the computer war, and every tower is still a massive molded plastic chassis with vents that you can only mod with cartridge cards the manufacturer designed for it.

...Wait no I don't, that would be a nightmare.

Cool aesthetic, though.

[awwfulsounds]

Atari Stacy 2 laptop computer running Atari TOS operating system 1989 (x)

[vintage-tech]

The big announcement of the day is

that a couple days ago someone was searching through a VMS/VAX tape backup from 1983 of a computer that had been in Atari's coin-op division, when they found...

...a previously unknown Atari 2600 game named 'Fish'.

No one knows for sure who the programmer was, or whether this was something official or just a fun project someone was working on (since this was not found in the home console division).

But I'm here to tell you it is freaking amazing. I've thrown the ROM at every emulator I have (Stella 7 on the PC, StellaDS on the Nintendo DS, Dingux Stella on the Dingoo A-320 handheld, and of course the Atari Flashback Portable) and it plays in all of them.

Where to get the ROM as a .bin [AtariAge] A review and instructions thus figured out [AtariProtos]

[orchidblack]

Artwork for ATARI's Phoenix / Asteroids / Vanguard by Terry Hoff.

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Yorgle

Debut: Adventure

Dragons are such a staple of fiction and fantasy, it's hard to imagine a time when they were not part of human imagination! But that's the world people lived in before 1980. That fateful year, Adventure released for the Atari somesequenceofnumbers. This is a game about a square going on an adventure. Though this charismatic square may have been the hero, it was someone else that captured the hearts of gamers... it was the Dragon. And his name was Yorgle!

To be honest, dragons tend to bore me with their designs, usually using the same design aspects I've seen sooo many times before... so when I see one that's a weird seahorsey thing, I am rejuvenated! And better yet, his name is Yorgle. Yorgle! Official lore states that Yorgle, among the game's three dragons, is not ferocious.

But wait! Don't take that as an invitation to mingle with Yorgle! He is not ferocious, but he is- and I quote- "just plain mean". If you asked Yorgle for an autograph, he wouldn't give you one, and he would say "ah, put a sock in it, bub". Mean! He's lucky he looks so funny, otherwise I wouldn't let him hang out at my house and degrade my mental health with his harsh words.

When he opens his mouth, Yorgle looks less like a seahorse and more like the proverbial "freakin' duck"! The dragons in this game have the ability to eat our handsome square hero, and you can actually wiggle around in his stomach afterward, since the closed-mouth sprite has a transparent belly. That's weird but a fun little detail. It feels like a toy feature!

From what I can tell, there have not been many official "redesigns" of Yorgle, the most notable being this one from The Sandbox. And learning about this one made me realize that The Sandbox, which I once knew as a very cool mobile game about physics and creativity, became some metaverse nonsense for nitwits to play with their NFTs in. Yuck! Let's return to the past before that existed.

I mentioned other dragons earlier. There are three! The yellow Yorgle, the green Grundle, and the red Rhindle. Here they are if they were singing in a glee club and Yorgle was off beat, making the other two disappointed in him. Grundle is mean and ferocious, but Rhindle is the most ferocious of all! No mention of him being mean, though. I guess it's implied.

Maybe it's just because of Homestar Runner, but Yorgle is iconic to me! I would love to see this funny dragon appear more often in the modern day, in GOOD games, and of course, resemble his classic seahorsey self! Atari has been letting various developers revitalize their franchises recently... we may be entering a new age of Yorgle! Or at least an age where we get a new mediocre look at Yorgle. I'll take what I can get!

[fizzymogu]

Okay, so this is my try to make aesthetic frutiger aero aquarium monitor. It's not best creation, but I did my best. There's so much to learn.

[yodaprod]

1980

[the-paranomaly-hotline]

A project in the works.

Hi, this is Atari! We are the Paranomaly Hotline (like paranormal and anomaly, cool right?!?), we help people when they deal with places or creatures (or even people) that aren't exactly...normal, for lack of a better vocabulary. There's several of us, but we're the main ones who'll be taking calls!

Have a good day, and I hope you guys have no need to call us!

(Oh, our sign offs! Here they are below!)

📝 -Atari (it/they/mem/crys, tolerates she/her) 💫 -Rune (hex/mystic/xey/they) ✈️ -Ev (he/it/ball/nine) [mostly a bit, wont really appear in the story] 🔅 -Moss (he/her) 💠 -Whip (she/her or they/them) 🍀 -Clover (he/him) 🎀 -Milo (he/him) 🎈 -Piper (she/he/they/it)

I'm still gonna keep posting the actual project on my main (@s0lar-ch3ri), but if you wanted to talk to the characters or something, well, here!

If you wanted to see updates about this little story project, just follow the #Paranormal Callings (And How We Got You Out) on my main. Out of characters, I use he/her/it/sol! Uh, yeah bye bye lol

oh also any ooc things are gonna be tagged "#paranomal shutdown"

for my reblogs of the written out chapters, check "#written entity handling"

for my reblogs of the drawn out chapters, check "#drawn entity handling"

the story will always be tagged "#Paranormal Callings (And How We Got You Out)"

because it is a hastel to tag all the posts, any non-actual story (like random office things or whatever) are gonna just be tagged "#backstage of the hotline"

if i give a lil detail about the hotline or whatever, itll go under #fun ph factoids

new characters coming as i work on this lol (maybe tags too idrk)

so fun thing, asks with little things can be for any fandom and shit, and theyll have their own side plotline things (not canon to the main story, but canon somewhere) so yeah!

finished side story things will get put in the pinned to look thro later :3

#cat-otic demons - An anon called in, talking about a peculiar demon who's been talking to their cat, Toothpaste.

#wooded elks - An anon called in about a mysterious elk who had been watching them in the woods.

#demonic possibility - Mysterious shop owners who might be a bit more than human!

CHARACTER TAGS BECAUSE I CAN:

#mossed up posting - moss

#gathering magics of runes - rune

#ataris time shining - atari

#whips up - whip

#interning piper! - piper

#marble bows milo - milo

#4 clover posting - clover

#newer friends to organize - for when i make new guys for this shit and just am too lazy to make a new tag for em

[redbeardace]

I was looking at a bunch of Activision Atari 2600 boxes the other day, and it struck me that despite them all having prominent stripes, none of those stripes had become the colors of a pride flag yet.

So I fixed that.

I bring you:

Queer Kaboom

Trans Barnstorming

Asexual River Raid

Non-Binary Megamania

Aromantic Pitfall

[gameraboy2]

1978 ad for the Atari 2600

[humanoidhistory]

From Atari STI User, December 1986.

[70sscifiart]

I love the intricate 1984 box art for Atari's Dimension X game - art by Timothy Charles Boxell.