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Just two more days until the drop! Who is ready to conquer the Caverns of Mars?!

Here's a gameplay trailer for the first beat 'em up confirmed for the VCS!

Release Date: April 28, 2023 Retail: TBD Developer: Blue Sunset Games Publisher: Console Labs S.A. Official Site Synopsis: 28 years after the events of 'Franko: The Crazy Revenge', titular anti-hero Franko returns to Poland to get his old friend out of trouble. This time also he will not go easy on his enemies... Now, with help of his pal Skinny, Franko will wreak havoc in the streets of Szczecin once again. Skinny & Franko: Fists of Violence is an outstanding and brutal 2D beat'em'up game. Designed by a creator of cult classics like 'Franko: The Crazy Revenge' or 'Doman: Sins of Ardan' that were popular in the 90's on Amiga and PC.

Welcome to the official topic for Skinny & Franko: Fists of Violence

Here's a link to some gameplay footage from the developer. This is definitely a wild take on the Joust formula! https://alan-1.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Jousting-Heroes-gameplay-l.mp4

Release Date: May 12, 2023 Retail: 21.99 Developer: ALAN-1 Publisher: ALAN-1 Official Site Synopsis: Jousting Heroes is a return to bird flapping multiplayer combat in the skies that will be familiar to many gamers from the 80’s. Inspired by William’s Joust, Atari’s Gauntlet, and Nintendo’s Megaman, Jousting Heroes is, at its heart, 8 player battles of skill. Like all Alan-1 games, there are two game modes–arcade and multiplayer arena. The arcade game is what it sounds like. A fun, addictive, arcade style game with the high score being your objective. High scores are across platforms. Are you the world’s best Jousting Hero? The multiplayer arena allows for up to 8 local players to joust to the death! The game play is unique in that if you are knocked off of your bird, your knight can be reborn by the bird dropping an egg. Once hatched, if the players can reunite their bird with their knight, they are back in the action. But beware, enemy players can eat your bird’s egg to advance to more powerful birds with greater abilities and stronger wings. There are weapons scattered throughout the playfield that will change your strategy to attack once picked up. There are lances, swords, spiked helmets, maces, bows, exploding arrows, and shields that kill. Most weapons have multiple levels of power-ups with the most advanced power-ups being the strongest against enemy foes. Your birds also can eat food to give them powerful attacking abilities like fire breath, dizzy breath, and laser eyes. The more advanced your birds are, the more of these special powers they can access. Those with the most skill will win! But there are many strategies that can be discovered and deployed to best even the most skilled player who doesn’t counter your new approach to Jousting! Good luck warrior!

Welcome to the official topic for Avian Knights (Formerly Jousting Heroes)

Yes! And it didn't take all season to get us there!

This is a fun idea and if I had a Legends Pinball, I would be in! One month we should coordinate a Recharged game in ClubVCS and the Classic version on the main Squad Challenge. Caverns of Mars: Recharged is coming up soon...(hint hint). 😉

Congratulations everyone and great job @Marco1019! Also, welcome to the Club (VCS)! I look forward to seeing you in the Recharged Squad Challenge!

New to Missile Command: Recharged (2022)? Check out this great video from @Mockduck for a look at the game!

Let's get the word out about this Recharged Squad Challenge! The more people participating the more fun the challenge! Spread the word and invite friends to play!

Missile Command: Recharged (2022) Atari VCS Controller: MODERN CONTROLLER / CLASSIC CONTROLLER / PLAYER'S CHOICE Difficulty Level: Normal Game Play on: Real Hardware ✔ Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST March 31, 2023 Objective Play for the highest possible score using the difficulty settings defined in the challenge. Post a photo or YouTube video of your score in this thread. Scores must be achieved between March 1st through March 31, 2023. Your high score submission should be the "Last Score" following the "The End" screen. Screen captures are not allowed as they are more easily manipulated for falsified scores. Multiple submissions are permitted. The player with the highest score at the end of the competition is the victor! Eligibility This is a Club VCS Exclusive Challenge. All Club VCS players are welcome! Play Rules Games may be played on real Atari VCS hardware. Choosing which controller to play on is part of formulating your strategy. Enhancements, rewinds and hacked versions of this game are not allowed. Difficulty Level We are playing Missile Command: Recharged using the default difficulty setting. Spending points to power-up your abilities is a part of the game. Players are encouraged to strategically power-up to increase their scores! Fair Play Your integrity is everything. Players should play fairly, be honest, and have fun! Falsified scores will result in your immediate removal from the site. It goes without saying that we will not allow cheats, hacks, cartridge frying, enhancements, rewinds, deceitful photo manipulation, subterfuge, or any other unfair advantage. Everybody hates a cheater. More To review detailed rules on how to play, please visit the High Score Squad page here: Message Welcome to our 13th Club VCS Recharged Squad Challenge!!! This marks the one year anniversary round for the Club VCS Recharged Squad Challenge! In our very first round, we played the original Missile Command: Recharged released in 2020. This time, we're celebrating our anniversary with the 2022 update to the title: Missile Command: Recharged (2022)! Missile Command: Recharged is a reimagining of the beloved Atari arcade classic. Survive wave after wave of enemy attacks in this fast-paced, arcade action game. Players must defend their bases by shooting down an endless barrage of missiles hailing from the sky. Launch counter-missiles to protect your base and target powerups to gain an edge at critical moments. The first of Atari's Recharged series, Missile Command: Recharged effectively set the stage for things to come. It took the basic premise of the arcade original, adds power-ups, a future-retro aesthetic and an endless arcade loop. The 2022 update enhances the visuals and adds a mission mode to bring the game in line with the rest of Atari's Recharged series. How long can you defend your cities against the enemy onslaught? Club VCS Recharged Squad Contest This game is the third title in our third Club VCS contest giveaway! Prize details will be announced shortly. 1) All challenge participants will receive one (1) entry for each challenge in which they submit a valid score! 2) The top scorer of each challenge will receive two (2) additional entries - for a total of three (3) entries in a single challenge! 3) On Twitch or Youtube? Stream or record and post your ClubVCS high score attempt for one (1) additional entry in each round. You must post a public link to the video in the Challenge. BUT ARE THERE BUTTONS? Yes! We've made another set of ClubVCS buttons to celebrate the games in this series. There will be two ways to get a button set. 1) Win a challenge. 2) Post a valid score to all challenges in the 6 game series. Only one button set will be mailed per member during the series. This contest is open to everybody, including Atari I/O Moderators, with a U.S. or Canada mailing address. It's really easy, all you have to do is participate be a Club VCS member and participate in our Recharged Squad Challenges.

Congratulations killersquirel! Congratulations and a big ClubVCS welcome to @killersquirel, the winner of our Neo-Breakout Recharged Squad Challenge! Killersquirel made his ClubVCS debut with a stunning score of 195,972! I came in second with a wall busting score of 165,658. @Mockduck had our first 100K break through and took third with a terrific score of 124,398! @D.joe comes in fourth with 113,468! @stirrell posted an 11th hour entry of 102,430 for 5th! @Yorkies TV rounds out the 100K Club with 101,654! @RickR and @Stlrs95 complete the scoreboard with 66,484 and 24,958, respectively! As the winner of this round @killersquirel will receive 3 entries in the upcoming giveaway (prize TBA)! Both @Mockduck and I ill receive two entries since we posted our attempts via Youtube. Everyone else will receive one entry! I'd like to encourage killersquirel to post this high score on the Scoreboard so we can make sure this Challenge continues on! Congratulations again to @killersquirelon an incredible showing! Also, a big congratulations to the rest of the Squad! We had great participation this round and so many folks post 100K+ scores. Well done! Finally, thanks to @Ballistik for helping to get the word out about the Recharged Squad Challenge! Neo-Breakout really captures the spirit of the original game and brings it into the modern era in a way that previous update attempts haven't. It feels like Breakout but also very fresh somehow. It also includes the very fun "Battle" mode. Plus, the Classic Controller makes the VCS the place to play! What did you think of the game? Are there any other takes on the Breakout formula that you enjoy and would recommend? NOTE: Our next Recharged Squad Challenge is Missile Command: Recharged (2022)! Be there!

Release Date: February 24, 2023 Retail: $3.99 Developer(s): Metgan Games Publisher: Metgan Games Official Site Synopsis : LIGHT WEIGHT PUZZLER Mostly, you won't struggle to solve puzzles. That's a quite simple and short game - to distract gamers for a bit. Achievable, satisfying, easily rewarding - that's all you could ask for to calm your mind. VERSUS MODE - SPLIT SCREEN There is no story behind game but there is a princess if you want to save her from castle. Classic story. But to spicy things up, someone else can join to --- the competition of saving her, you weirdo, not anything else!

Welcome to the official topic for A Path to the Princess

Out now!

I have both. I will sometimes play the 1mb version just to hear Skylar less frequently. 🤣

Yeah, this is an infamous example of the Tramiel's trying to save a buck. The developer's at ADT were reportedly very upset about the cuts. Here's a great community interview with questions by our own @TrekMD with Fred Gill, formerly of ADT, who touches on the cut. Here's the excerpt: It was a sad day when we got the call asking if we could optimise the 2Mb game to get it into 1Mb cartridge. The reason was purely cost. Atari needed to cut the price of the Jaguar to boost sales and a 2Mb cartridge didn’t give them enough margin, and indeed they may have even made a loss. It took approx. 2hrs to remove enough animation data and Skylar speech sample variations to get it to fit; whilst an interesting engineering exercise, it was painful ‘mutilating’ something that we’d crafted over such a long time. https://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/rvg-interviews-fred-gill/

Some tips from Minter himself for playing Akka Arrh:

Just a note that there has been official confirmation via Discord that the VCS version of Akka Arrh will not launch with working leaderboards. Per Atari staff, the issue is that the VCS leaderboard APIs are written in Unity and that Llamasoft writes code in C++. Apparently, it is difficult to translate to C++ without opening up exposure to other things. The backend people are working on a way to “untangle” the data leaderboards need to allow them to function in C++ language. This is also why T4K leaderboards do not currently work on the VCS. Good news is that trackball/mouse support works.