Tuesday, November 15, 2011
American Icons Gallery Show Recognizes Classic Gaming Consoles For the Works of Art They Are
We live in an age of gaming gorgeousness. Gamers’ lives nowadays are filled with fancy normal mapping and illumination engines, powered by slickly encased hardware that outputs onto super-sharp screens. In short, there’s a lot of thought given to aesthetics in the present day. But, it hasn’t always been this way and an upcoming art show will showcase the uglier—yet vitally important—gaming hardware of yesteryear.
American Icons gathers select works by Massachusetts artist Jason Brockert, who’s done a series of hazy still-life renderings of the Atari 2600, the Commodore 64, the Nintendo Entertainment System and old-school cartridges. Another series of paintings also portray classic Star Wars action figures, with most painted in a quietly contemplative style.
This showing’s being put together by nerd culture collective I Am 8-Bit in their downtown L.A. gallery and will open to the public this Friday. Some of the paintings—which are affordable as far as fine art goes—will also be available as prints for those who can’t make the show.
http://kotaku.com/58 … t-they-are/gallery/1
http://iam8bit.com/t … lery/american-icons/
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Classic Game Room: SECRET QUEST Atari 2600 review
Secret Quest review. Classic Game Room reviews SECRET QUEST for Atari 2600 released in 1989. Secret Quest plays like Atari’s answer to Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda. Secret Quest is a red label Atari 2600 cartridge that says “by Nolan Bushnell”, creator of Atari and Pong. Produced by Axlon, Secret Quest is an awesome action / adventure game where you collect codes, blow up space ships and waste aliens with a light saber!
Category:
Gaming
Science Fiction
Starring:
Edit-Station 1
Mark
Space Gar
Directed by:
Mark & Classic Game Room
Produced by:
Lord Karnage
Written by:
Wind Squid
Dr. 8-Ball
Monday, June 20, 2011
Retro gaming on your smartphone
Many of us remember the old days of gaming with the likes of the Atari 2600 console, and later the Commodore 64. You also had the classics in the arcades such as Space Invaders and Asteroids which also found their way onto home systems. Luckily over recent times these old classic retro games have found a new lease of life, and enjoyed by people who remember them as well as getting new fans. Many retro style games are now finding their way onto smartphones to be played anywhere.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Atari User Issue #9 Volume #1 Out Now
In Issue 9 we review the Atari 1200XL computer, take a look at the new IDE 2 interface for the Atari XL/XE and look at S-video for your Atari 8-bit.
The Atari Lynx goes head to head against the Sega Game Gear in part one of our new series, we look at Rampage on the Atari, our popular guide to unreleased games for the Atari 2600, 5200 and 7800 continues and we check out Sega’s great titles in our ST coin-op conversions series.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Atari’s Greatest Hits for iPhone/iPad
Atari recently released Atari’s Greatest Hits for the iOS (iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad), featuring 100 classic Atari 2600 and arcade games. Developed by Code Mystics, this collection includes 92 Atari 2600 games and 18 Atari arcade games that you can play on the go. Atari’s Greatest Hits also includes Bluetooth support for head-to-head play with some games, such as Pong and Warlords. You can also browse a gallery of memorabilia for the arcade games and view scans of the original Atari 2600 manuals. The free app includes the Pong arcade game, but you will need to purchase additional games inside the app (bundles are available for 99 cents or $14.99 for all 100 games).