Thursday, June 28, 2012
Popular Computing Weekly, November 6-12, 1986
Popular Computing Weekly for the week of November 6-12. This weekly newspaper style magazine covered the popular computers of the 80s in the UK including the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore 16 / Plus/4, Atari ST and Atari XL/XE:
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Atari Turns 40, Celebrates with New Centipede
Forty years ago today, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded Atari, and the gaming giant is celebrating with a big push onto smartphones. The company released Centipede: Origins for iOS and Droid devices last week, overhauling the original’s iconic pixelated graphics with a fresh design and layers of new gameplay aimed at today’s Angry Birds generation.
“The touch screen adds a dimension that I think is much more personal, as opposed to a joystick,” Giancarlo Mori, Atari’s head of product development, told me in a recent interview. “We’re trying to find the sweet spot between nostalgia and innovation—to give more than the original game design will allow.”
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Atari Age, Volume 2 Number 4
The November 1983/February 1984 issue of Atari Age, the official publication of the Atari Club:
Monday, June 25, 2012
Computer Gaming World, Number 21, April/May 1985
The April/May 1985 issue of Computer Gaming World, for the owners of Apple, Atari, C-64, IBM:
Thursday, June 21, 2012
K-Power Issue 1, February 1984
The February 1984 issue of K-Power, a personal computer magazine covering systems such as the Commodore 64, VIC-20, TRS-80, Apple II, Atari 400/800, Coleco Adam, IBM PCjr and TI 99/4A.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Personal Computer News Issue Number 87
The November 17, 1984 issue of Personal Computer News, a weekly UK based personal computer magazine from the 80s.