Arenafoot

Yeah, for only $2 per month you are guaranteed to get each card!

http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-2600-vcs-arkyology_30287.html
 
Thanks to programmer Paul Walters, who decided to release the binary of the game for free after plans to sell cartridges fell through.
 
This is a 1-player 8K game based on events in the life of the biblical character Noah.  Paul Walters announced in 2015 that he likely had the only existing copy of the game.  From Walters: "Back in 1982 - 1984 I worked for Enter-Tech Ltd.  We developed video games, coin-op, cartridge, and gambling as well.  We developed a few games for the Atari 2600.  We had the contract to develop Arkyology and David and Goliath for the 2600 back in 1983.  I and my co-worker George Hefner were the programmers on the Arkyology project.  My co-worker Rick Harris was the lead on the David and Goliath project, and Andy Teague helped.  Barb Ultis did the graphics for both games.  The games required a cartridge board that handled ROM banking.  The final games fit inside 8K bytes. Arkyology was finished and ready for release; I don't think David and Goliath was ever finished.  Arkyology was about Noah's ark.  The player controlled 'Noah' and the goal was to feed the animals on the Ark.  The game showed three floors separated by ladders that contained animal stalls.  Each level had two parts.  First was to run around and open all of the animal stalls, the second was to 'feed' each of the animals.  Of course, there were obstacles.  There were birds flying past, alligators running on the floors, and a couple others if I remember right.  Each level sped up with more obstacles.  We ended up having to edit out some of what we wanted to put into the game because we were running out of space... The cut scenes between days were shortened down to just Noah snoring.. we had bigger plans for it.  I have a game ROM of Arkyology, probably the only one still in existence."

Combat  - game #15-17, #21-22, #25

The  magazine is doing a Kickstarter right now to go into its second year:  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryanburger/old-school-gamer-the-second-year-bigger-and-better?mc_cid=2e47fd7e66&mc_eid=29d558a5c7

Here are my first lap times for the Test and Fuji tracks. I'm still working on improving these times and will also have times to post for Seaside and Suzuka. 
 
 
Test: 269:79
Fuji: 296:79

Hey folks! I just got my hands on the Pole Position II cart that RickR sent me and will be posting some lap times later tonight. The Squad Challenge runs through the end of the month so I'm going to use that time to get my best times possible. Good luck to everyone! And special thanks again to Rick for being so thoughtful and generous, as always 

Hey Justin, I have an extra PP2 you can have for free.  It's got a cracked case, but it does work fine.  PM me your address and I'll ship it to you.

Thanks Rick I really appreciate it! I'll return it after I find one of my two copies. I'll send you a PM.

Wanted to post some lap times this morning but I can't find my Pole Position II for some reason. I have the box and instructions but the game isn't there. Maybe I loaned it to someone? I'll keep looking. I'd really like to not have to play on an emulator if I don't have to. In the meantime though I upped my Crystal Castles score above 50,000 pts just a little too late 
 
Nice lap times everyone! 

Seems to me folks that want the cards should seriously consider donating to his patreon. 

Moon Patrol is correct!

 
Game 69
Atari 2600

Really good magazine!! 

Whoa... I finally own a valuable piece of gaming history. I feel incredibly lucky, and I plan to hold onto mine. I only wish I had managed to get the pack of extra controller overlays.
 
EDIT: I finally hit 1,000 posts!

Have had several requests on how to add roms to the Atari Flashback portable. Hopefully this helps

Well I be Willie!ed, you can have capital letters in your rom file names, the name just needs to be over 8 characters in length though so lets play some HEROOOOOO.BIN :

Looking forward to adding Kong to the Arcade USA Retro Tree

Cool handheld but terrible sound My Arcade​ Pac Man Mini Player

No, not at all but im gonna redo it because I came up with an idea!

That is awesome!!! Is it hard to mod those controllers?

Check out this mod I did today!
 

I so love the shimmery blood smear on this version.

Volume 2 book review:
 

Volume 2 book review:
 

Yep..... here's the links for the full-color "Deluxe Edition":
 
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1983385719 https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1983385719 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1983385719 https://www.amazon.de/dp/1983385719 https://www.amazon.fr/dp/1983385719 https://www.amazon.es/dp/1983385719 https://www.amazon.it/dp/1983385719 https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/1983385719     https://www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne

It's there now.