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Here's a great new interview with Llamasoft on Akka Arrh. https://www.timeextension.com/features/interview-llamasofts-jeff-minter-discusses-his-new-game-akka-arrh-and-working-with-atari

37,050 to get on the board! This was via a Retron77. Certain 2600 games glitch on my 4K through real hardware. 🙄 GCC did such a great job with this port. Everything that makes Joust is here. It's amazing for the time!

33,974 with a Classic. I am RUSTY!

Congratulations D.JOE! Congratulations to high score legend D.JOE, the winner of our VCTR-SCTR Recharged Squad Challenge! @D.joe kicks off the first round of the New Year with a stunning score of 96,057! I hit a wall at Wave 3 but managed to take second with a score of 51,031. @Mockduck snuck in a late entry for a third place finish of 46,337. @stirrell takes fourth with a strong showing of 34,360. @Stlrs95 and @RickR round out the scoreboard with 18,549 and 15,831, respectively. As the winner of this round @D.joe will receive 3 entries in the upcoming giveaway (prize TBA)! @Mockduck will receive two entries since he posted his attempt via YouTube. Everyone else will receive one entry! I'd like to encourage D.Joe to post this high score on the Scoreboard so we can make sure this Challenge continues on! Congratulations again to @D.joe on an incredible showing! (WOW!) Also, a big congratulations to the rest of the Squad! Thanks for participating and helping us to kick the year off right! VCTR-SCTR is a true love letter to Atari's classic vector games. I think that Digital Eclipse really distilled the essence of what made the games like Asteroids, Tempest, Battlezone, Star Wars and Lunar Lander so special. They created a brilliant homage in this reimagined mash-up! NOTE: Our next Recharged Squad Challenge is Neo Breakout! Be there!

New to Neo Breakout? Check out this great video by @LinkYoungPS playing the game on the VCS!

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!

Neo Breakout (ATARI 50) Atari VCS Controller: CLASSIC/MODERN / PLAYER'S CHOICE Difficulty Level: DEFAULT Play on: Real Hardware ✔ Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST February 28, 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 February 1st through February 28, 2023. 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 Neo Breakout in the default mode: Breakout. Start with a NEW GAME and play as long as you can for the highest score possible! 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 twelfth Club VCS Recharged Squad Challenge!!! We're continuing the celebration of Atari 50 with another reimagined title: Neo Breakout! From the game: "Created by Digital Eclipse as part of the Atari 50th anniversary celebration, this fresh take on breaking bricks includes different game modes, including a competitive tug-of-war between two players (or CPU) dubbed Battle Breakout." For this challenge we'll be playing the standard Breakout mode. Start with a new game and play for the highest score! Club VCS Recharged Squad Giveaway This game is the second 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.

I had an '83 Concord. It was very reliable and easy to work on. Of course, it was just a slightly updated Hornet so the body styling was laughably dated by '83. I've always wanted a Metropolitan. This started production under the Nash badge before the merger with Hudson and formation of AMC. It was really America's first subcompact (although built by Austin in England). I've also always wanted a Gremlin. I love ugly hatchbacks. It was easily the best of the American '70s small cars by a mile. No Pinto fires there!

This was a fair take and fun to watch! As I said in my YT comments, Atari really need to figure out what is breaking the update or throw a USB in the box. Also, I'd love to hear your take on BPM Boy if you get it. Lastly, check out our VCS subforum "Club VCS" for information on all things VCS. We have a monthly highscore challenge and prizes like controllers and pins. https://forums.atari.io/clubs/2-club-vcs/

I had no idea but I'll definitely have to check it out! Thanks!

Can't wait to hear your thoughts!

Thanks. It was a really great gift! I'm on parental leave right now but intend to place it into active service when I return to the office next month!

My better half gifted me with this awesome Atari lunchbox and thermos! Manufactured by Aladdin Industries in Nashville, TN circa 1983, it has graphics from Atari classics including Asteroids, Yars' Revenge, Warlords and Missile Command. The cool thing about this for me is that I actually had this same lunchbox in 1st grade. This is what I carried to school everyday nearly 40 years ago. I'm very stoked to add it back to the collection!

Me too! You may know, but Missile Command on iPad (2020) was greatly expanded for consoles this past fall. It's really an entirely different game. If you dig the iPad version, check out the 2022 version for consoles.

Release Date: March 9, 2023 Retail: $9.99 Developer(s): Sneaky Box Publisher: Atari Official Site Synopsis: In Caverns of Mars: Recharged you descend into tunnels beneath the surface of Mars in a mad dash to destroy the reactor and furthest depths of the enemy’s base. Dodge debris, clear out obstacles, and blast enemies, all while conserving ammunition as you descend at high speed into enemy territory. Your ammo is limited and enemies are plentiful, so make every shot count. The original Caverns of Mars was a hit that came out of nowhere. In an era of side-scrollers a high school senior named Greg Christensen developed a game where players descended vertically. The few vertical scrolling games that existed were largely skiing and driving games, but Christsensen made a space game, set in the tunnels of Mars. He submitted it to APX, Atari’s mail order software catalog. The day his project arrived in Sunnyvale it was recognized for its quality, and it became the very first APX submission to be released as an Atari game, and one of only a handful to ever make that leap. Features: Fully Destructible Environments Blast your way through obstructions, but be mindful of fuel reserves - each shot also accelerates your limited time to reach the bottom Arcade Traverse the three depths of Mars in a race to reach the bottom and destroy the reactor, strategically accumulating upgrades that’ll make each run unique. Power Ups Collect weapons that will change your strategy on the fly. Carve a new path with the focused railgun shot or leverage the spread of rapid shotgun blasts. Local Co-op In a unique spin on the gameplay, split the responsibilities while one player navigates and the other shoots from a separate drone in tow. Leaderboards Compete in global leaderboards for points or speed. Pulse pounding soundtrack The multi-talented composer Megan McDuffee serves up a lush and energetic sound track.

Here's a preview from Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattgardner1/2023/01/25/atari-caverns-of-mars-recharged-comes-to-pc-and-consoles-in-2023/?sh=49ee0c13388b

I appreciate that Atari went with another "deep cut" for this installment of the series. Like Black Widow and Gravitar, this was not on the radar. Its great that the entire IP catalog is being mined....Well done! Global leaderboards for this will be epic!

It's official! Trailer: Press release: https://atari.com/blogs/newsroom/b-it-s-a-race-to-the-center-of-mars-in-atari-s-reimagined-b-b-i-caverns-of-mars-recharged-i-b

Very cool!

When my daughter was born in August I changed my schedule to "work from home" a few days a week. Prior to that, I reported to the office everyday despite the new pandemic-inspired flexibility. Anyway, it quickly became apparent that my $60 Ikea desk chair would not work for 9-10 hour days. Immediately my backside was pleading for my Aeron. However, as comfortable as they are, I do not want an Aeron at home. So my search began...After reading a ton of reviews and conducting some in-person "testing", I settled on the Herman-Miller Sayl. The chair took a few months to be built so by the time I got it I was on my parental leave. While it hasn't been through the rigors of office work, i definitely put it through its paces with Atari 50! It's extremely comfortable for long periods of time and doesn't scream "office chair." They even make a gaming variant but the color schemes for that model are a bit too garish for me. (This coming from a guy that has rainbow spectrum lighting behind my Teal and white game setup.) If you're looking for a decent home office or gaming chair, check it out!