| 3/7/22 |
Rescue Mission & Ballblaster
Although
AtariProtos has reviewed WIP versions of both
Rescue on Fractalus and Ballblazer for the Atari
5200, we have neglected to take a look at some
earlier betas of these games for the Atari 8-bit
computers. These betas were pirated under
the names Rescue
Mission and Ballblaster,
and feature some interesting differences. Be
sure to check them out.
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| 2/15/22 |
AtariProtos
is happy to announce a review of Astro
Chase for the Atari 2600. A fairly
faithful port of the Atari 8-bit/5200 original,
the 2600 version is just as much of a joy to play
as its more flashy cousins (take that as you
will). Head on over to the new Astro
Chase page and check out the review.
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| 2/11/22 |
There are
three known prototypes for Elf Adventure, but the
earliest
version always appeared to be a bad
dump. However thanks to the generosity of
John Hardie we now have a working copy of this
rom. So go and check out this new
version and see how this sequel to Adventure
began.
On a side note, 2022 marks the 20th anniversary of
AtariProtos.com! Thanks to everyone for
reading.
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| 11/30/21 |
Another
day another new prototype. This prototype
comes to us courtesy of our old friend Ken Van
Mersbergen. This late beta for the
Atari 8-bit version of Popeye
has a few interesting differences
including invincibility on the first
screen. Be sure to check this out.
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| 11/29/21 |
No, this
isn't a new prototype. Satan's Hollow for
the Atari 400/800 has been available for a long
time, but somehow we here at AtariProtos managed
to overlook it and never gave it a proper
review. Today this terrible wrong has been
righted. So head on over to the new Satan's
Hollow page for a review of a nice arcade
port that never saw the light of day.
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7/8/21
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Ok so this
isn't exactly prototype related, but hear me
out. Most people know that the Atari 400 and
5200 shared almost the exact same hardware.
The 5200 just had a different OS and lacked the
keyboard that the 400 had. Therefore you'd
think that the games ported to these two systems
would be exactly the same aside from some changes
made to accommodate the 5200's different
controllers. While this is mostly true,
there are a surprisingly large number of games
that have some big differences. So if this
sounds interesting to you (and I hope it does),
mosey on over to the new Game
Differences section of the site (under the
Other Stuff button) and take a look. I'll be
adding more entries as I find them. Feel
free to email me with anything I missed.
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| 7/1/21 |
Today we
have something a little different to share.
Not a game, but a tech demo. 3-D
Asteroids (or just Asteroids as the title
screen calls is) is a tech demo for the Atari 5200
created by John Seghers in order to show that the
5200 could do the same three dimensional asteroids
that the 7800 could do. Be sure to read all
about this long forgotten demo.
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