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When the Atari 7800+ was announced, we also got word that a handful of masterful titles – formerly independent homebrew games by developer Bob DeCrescenzo – were being adopted by the mothership as official Atari games, including a sequel to Crystal Castles, Bentley Bear’s Crystal Quest. Jon sits down with BobD to discuss his history […]

Crazy Climber has the honor of being the first Atari Fan Club exclusive game. Why Atari decided not to make this game available to the general public is unknown, but due to this Crazy Climber is one of the rarer games in the 2600 library. Perhaps Atari thought the game had limited appeal, or maybe […]

Atari & the Atari Club have just launched a crowd-funded campaign on Kickstarter for “Centipede Blast,” a tabletop card game based on the arcade classic. What do you think of this development? #atari #kickstarter #centipede #genxgrownup SHOP (affiliates)genxgrownup.com/amazon SUBSCRIBE GenXGrownUp.com/yt PATREONpatreon.com/genxgrownup MERCH GenXGrownUp.com/merch PODCAST GenXGrownUp.com/pod DISCORD GenXGrownUp.com/discord SOCIAL fb.me/GenXGrownUp GenXGrownUp.com/twitter WEBSITE GenXGrownUp.com THEME “Grown Up” […]

In Atari’s Yars Rising promo kit, they include the regular swag, but a fascinating boxed cartridge housing the “Qotech Training Program!” What’s in this weird little custom cart? From the renowned development studio WayForward Technologies, Inc. (Shantae, River City Girls, Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp) comes Yars Rising, a 2D action adventure exploration of one […]

“Why do old people play bad games?” That’s a common question in comments, and while I disagree with the phrasing, I understand what’s being asked. Why, when games with so much more depth and audiovisual fidelity exist, do gamers in my demographic tend to still gravitate toward blocky old games from 30 & 40 years […]

Demon Attack is a fixed shooter video game created by Rob Fulop for the Atari 2600 and published by Imagic in 1982. The game involves the player controlling a laser cannon from the surface of a planet, shooting winged demons that fly down and attack the player in different sets of patterns. Fulop designed the […]