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Atari 2600 Turmoil from 20th Century Fox | The BEST Tempest Experience You Can Get on the VCS!

You no doubt know the story of how Yars’ Revenge came about when Howard Scott Warshaw was assigned to port Star Castle to the Atari VCS. The system just wasn’t quite capable, but with a little re-design, a new and now classic game was born. I don’t know for a fact that similar evolution took […]

Jon

June 7, 2024

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NEW Atari CX-78+ & Atari 7800 Reproduction Cartridges + SHIPPING DATES!

Atari and PLAION have a number of new products about to be released, and they were generous enough to drop-ship a care package to GenXGrownUp HQ with some samples a few weeks back. At the time we could only look at the oustide of the packages, but now we can take a deeper look at […]

Jon

June 4, 2024

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No Players Online: Play an Abandoned FPS on a Found Computer! (DEMO)

You find an old computer, someone left a file: capture_the_flag_prototype.exe You decide to open it. What lives in a DEAD game? Traverse the digital wasteland of a shooter game long-abandoned. but don’t let looks deceive you, the game is just a remnant distracting you from its real purpose. Delve deep into a fully realized faux-90s […]

Jon

June 1, 2024

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Intellivision Beauty and the Beast from Imagic | It’s TOTALLY NOT Donkey Kong!

What do you get when you combine equal parts Donkey Kong, Popeye, and Crazy Climber into a single Intellivision cartridge? You get the first non-2600 game we’ve covered in this Friday Plays series, Beauty and the Beast! With the announcement last week that Atari acquired the Intellivision brand and game library, my interest in learning […]

Jon

May 31, 2024

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ColecoVision Restoration: The Cartridges | Getting to Know the 2nd Gen Legend Part 1

ColecoVision is a second-generation home video-game console developed by Coleco and launched in North America in August 1982. It was released a year later in Europe by CBS Electronics as the CBS ColecoVision. The console offered a closer experience to more powerful arcade video games compared to competitors such as the Atari 2600 and Intellivision. […]

Jon

May 29, 2024

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Atari 2600 Keystone Kapers from Activision | The Third Time REALLY IS the Charm!

Atari 2600 Keystone Kapers from Activision | The Third Time REALLY IS the Charm! Kitchen designed the game after working on Atari 2600 games Space Jockey and a port of Donkey Kong. He wanted to develop a game similar to the latter game, and began developing what would become Keystone Kapers. On the games release […]

Jon

May 24, 2024

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