AtariSpot // rob
@atarispot.bsky.social
2600/5200 aficionado. Video game preservation enthusiast. Collector of unusual stuff. Philly native living in MD. He/him. atarispot @ gmail
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AtariSpot // rob
@atarispot.bsky.social
· Oct 17
The Long-Lost Tarzan Atari Game, Preserved | Video Game History Foundation
After 40 years, the Atari 2600 masterpiece Tarzan has been unearthed.
gamehistory.org
Hello, bsky!
This account mostly exists to highlight unusual Atari 2600 stuff. The platform is decades old now, but there are still many things waiting to be discovered.
If you follow VGHF, you may have already recently read about something I helped to preserve. gamehistory.org/atari-2600-t...
This account mostly exists to highlight unusual Atari 2600 stuff. The platform is decades old now, but there are still many things waiting to be discovered.
If you follow VGHF, you may have already recently read about something I helped to preserve. gamehistory.org/atari-2600-t...
Okay, fine, while I’m here… I acquired my first 2600 cartridge that retailed in Uruguay.
(The shop in Montevideo is on a street called Paraguay)
Neat little 8-in-1 cartridge, and one of them is a game you don’t find too often on unauthorized multicarts: London Blitz!
(The shop in Montevideo is on a street called Paraguay)
Neat little 8-in-1 cartridge, and one of them is a game you don’t find too often on unauthorized multicarts: London Blitz!
May 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Okay, fine, while I’m here… I acquired my first 2600 cartridge that retailed in Uruguay.
(The shop in Montevideo is on a street called Paraguay)
Neat little 8-in-1 cartridge, and one of them is a game you don’t find too often on unauthorized multicarts: London Blitz!
(The shop in Montevideo is on a street called Paraguay)
Neat little 8-in-1 cartridge, and one of them is a game you don’t find too often on unauthorized multicarts: London Blitz!
Popping in for a quick moment from my ongoing, indefinite, self-imposed social media moratorium to say…
🎊 Unauthorizon is back! 🎊
Cheers to @pirategamething.com and everyone else involved. youtu.be/x7hyVVDj1h0
🎊 Unauthorizon is back! 🎊
Cheers to @pirategamething.com and everyone else involved. youtu.be/x7hyVVDj1h0
Unauthorizon is BACK!!
YouTube video by PirateGameThing
youtu.be
May 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Popping in for a quick moment from my ongoing, indefinite, self-imposed social media moratorium to say…
🎊 Unauthorizon is back! 🎊
Cheers to @pirategamething.com and everyone else involved. youtu.be/x7hyVVDj1h0
🎊 Unauthorizon is back! 🎊
Cheers to @pirategamething.com and everyone else involved. youtu.be/x7hyVVDj1h0
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Tengen's NES version of Ms. Pac-Man contains an Easter Egg seen by having Ms. Pac-Man and Pac-Man bounce off of each other repeatedly as they go through opposite ends of a tunnel.
This causes baby Pac-Men to spawn in the middle of the maze! Eating them nets you 5000 points each.
This causes baby Pac-Men to spawn in the middle of the maze! Eating them nets you 5000 points each.
February 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Tengen's NES version of Ms. Pac-Man contains an Easter Egg seen by having Ms. Pac-Man and Pac-Man bounce off of each other repeatedly as they go through opposite ends of a tunnel.
This causes baby Pac-Men to spawn in the middle of the maze! Eating them nets you 5000 points each.
This causes baby Pac-Men to spawn in the middle of the maze! Eating them nets you 5000 points each.
Parade day. Go Birds. 🦅
More photos later/tomorrow!
More photos later/tomorrow!
February 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Parade day. Go Birds. 🦅
More photos later/tomorrow!
More photos later/tomorrow!
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THEY’RE CLIMBING THE POLES IN TOKYO GO BIRDS🦅🦅🦅
February 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
THEY’RE CLIMBING THE POLES IN TOKYO GO BIRDS🦅🦅🦅
Had to go celebrate with strangers since I’m not in Philly. What a night!
February 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Had to go celebrate with strangers since I’m not in Philly. What a night!
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funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread
February 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread
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World fucking champions!!!
February 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
World fucking champions!!!
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The Video Game History Foundation Library is now in early access. For free. For everyone. Wherever you are.
Read more: gamehistory.org/vghf-library...
Read more: gamehistory.org/vghf-library...
library.gamehistory.org — Now in early access
YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation
www.youtube.com
January 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Video Game History Foundation Library is now in early access. For free. For everyone. Wherever you are.
Read more: gamehistory.org/vghf-library...
Read more: gamehistory.org/vghf-library...
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New post on the Atari Archive website: Canyon Bomber! David Crane's melding of two disparate Atari arcade games from the mid-70s really elevates the experience of playing each of them. www.atariarchive.org/atari-vcs/ca...
Canyon Bomber – March 1979, Atari Archive
March 1979 brought the VCS a slew of new releases, and while some of those were original works, others returned to the tried-and-true realm of...
www.atariarchive.org
January 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
New post on the Atari Archive website: Canyon Bomber! David Crane's melding of two disparate Atari arcade games from the mid-70s really elevates the experience of playing each of them. www.atariarchive.org/atari-vcs/ca...
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I include TV-like controls in my retro emulators but never considered linking preferred settings to certain games.
> NTSC Colour In Vintage Games
> Includes a proposal for a 2600 container format and additional metadata.
via @jetsetilly.bsky.social's Mastodon
jetsetilly.github.io/Gopher2600-B...
> NTSC Colour In Vintage Games
> Includes a proposal for a 2600 container format and additional metadata.
via @jetsetilly.bsky.social's Mastodon
jetsetilly.github.io/Gopher2600-B...
NTSC Colour In Vintage Games
In the previous article while discussing the NTSC colour problem I said that examining vintage 2600 ROMs would be an informative exercise. That is the purpose of today’s article.
While selecting ROMs ...
jetsetilly.github.io
January 27, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I include TV-like controls in my retro emulators but never considered linking preferred settings to certain games.
> NTSC Colour In Vintage Games
> Includes a proposal for a 2600 container format and additional metadata.
via @jetsetilly.bsky.social's Mastodon
jetsetilly.github.io/Gopher2600-B...
> NTSC Colour In Vintage Games
> Includes a proposal for a 2600 container format and additional metadata.
via @jetsetilly.bsky.social's Mastodon
jetsetilly.github.io/Gopher2600-B...
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In speedrunning terms, I performed a sequence break and skipped the entire second phase this week
(HOLY HELL THEY DID IT!!!)
(HOLY HELL THEY DID IT!!!)
January 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
In speedrunning terms, I performed a sequence break and skipped the entire second phase this week
(HOLY HELL THEY DID IT!!!)
(HOLY HELL THEY DID IT!!!)
It’s not Halloween, but it *is* Random Game Saturday!
I would never have been able to show this one if not for a recent big trade (yes, an Atari TRADE! in the year of our lord 2025!)
Honestly, I expected never to have this one given where prices for it have gone in recent years.
I would never have been able to show this one if not for a recent big trade (yes, an Atari TRADE! in the year of our lord 2025!)
Honestly, I expected never to have this one given where prices for it have gone in recent years.
January 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
It’s not Halloween, but it *is* Random Game Saturday!
I would never have been able to show this one if not for a recent big trade (yes, an Atari TRADE! in the year of our lord 2025!)
Honestly, I expected never to have this one given where prices for it have gone in recent years.
I would never have been able to show this one if not for a recent big trade (yes, an Atari TRADE! in the year of our lord 2025!)
Honestly, I expected never to have this one given where prices for it have gone in recent years.
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The Video Game History Foundation opens its digital archives to the public next week
The Video Game History Foundation opens its digital archives to the public next week
The online archive will include over 1,500 magazine issues and other gaming artifacts at launch.
buff.ly
January 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The Video Game History Foundation opens its digital archives to the public next week
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The PC is Dead: It's Time To Make Computing Personal Again
My new essay on how we lost control of personal computing to Internet surveillance, DRM, and extractive business models—and how we can launch the era of Personal Computer 2.0
www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/ar...
My new essay on how we lost control of personal computing to Internet surveillance, DRM, and extractive business models—and how we can launch the era of Personal Computer 2.0
www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/ar...
January 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM
The PC is Dead: It's Time To Make Computing Personal Again
My new essay on how we lost control of personal computing to Internet surveillance, DRM, and extractive business models—and how we can launch the era of Personal Computer 2.0
www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/ar...
My new essay on how we lost control of personal computing to Internet surveillance, DRM, and extractive business models—and how we can launch the era of Personal Computer 2.0
www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/ar...
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the debris from starship flight 7 caught over turks and caicos.
absolutely unreal.
📸: dean olson on twitter
absolutely unreal.
📸: dean olson on twitter
January 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
the debris from starship flight 7 caught over turks and caicos.
absolutely unreal.
📸: dean olson on twitter
absolutely unreal.
📸: dean olson on twitter
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You Wouldn't Download an Arcade Machine...would you?
New Video: youtu.be/SONO6LTHuR8
Watch as Ed Fries laser scans an entire arcade machine for us to download and 3D print, and not just any machine, this is an incredibly rare #atari model from 1973.
Call the cops!
New Video: youtu.be/SONO6LTHuR8
Watch as Ed Fries laser scans an entire arcade machine for us to download and 3D print, and not just any machine, this is an incredibly rare #atari model from 1973.
Call the cops!
January 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
You Wouldn't Download an Arcade Machine...would you?
New Video: youtu.be/SONO6LTHuR8
Watch as Ed Fries laser scans an entire arcade machine for us to download and 3D print, and not just any machine, this is an incredibly rare #atari model from 1973.
Call the cops!
New Video: youtu.be/SONO6LTHuR8
Watch as Ed Fries laser scans an entire arcade machine for us to download and 3D print, and not just any machine, this is an incredibly rare #atari model from 1973.
Call the cops!
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Another prototype for #Atari2600 console found. It's a diagnostic cart named VCS Vertical Bars by Horace Olive https://forums.atariage.com/topic/378681-new-2600-diagnostic-cart-found-and-released/ #atari #retrogames #retrogaming
January 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Another prototype for #Atari2600 console found. It's a diagnostic cart named VCS Vertical Bars by Horace Olive https://forums.atariage.com/topic/378681-new-2600-diagnostic-cart-found-and-released/ #atari #retrogames #retrogaming
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ATTENTION: I am starting a charity bundle to benefit victims of the Southern California wildfires. Game (and other) makers, please submit your projects so we can do some good. There is a call for submissions of projects through the 18th, please share widely! FAQ below:
itch.io/jam/californ...
itch.io/jam/californ...
January 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
ATTENTION: I am starting a charity bundle to benefit victims of the Southern California wildfires. Game (and other) makers, please submit your projects so we can do some good. There is a call for submissions of projects through the 18th, please share widely! FAQ below:
itch.io/jam/californ...
itch.io/jam/californ...
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Worth noting that the rom's parent directory, at least in our backups at the museum, has a game concept file talking about a fishing game for bars with very similar ideas, wotha file modified date of around a month later than the roms (though the rom was compiled a few months earlier)
Fish, a prototype game for #Atari2600 console discovered on a tape backup of Atari Coin-Op division's mainframe, in the folder of an employee named Mike Albaugh. Download: forums.atariage.com/topic/378560... Info: www.atariprotos.com/2600/softwar... #atari #retrogames #retrogaming
January 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Worth noting that the rom's parent directory, at least in our backups at the museum, has a game concept file talking about a fishing game for bars with very similar ideas, wotha file modified date of around a month later than the roms (though the rom was compiled a few months earlier)
It’s Random Game Saturday once more. I let one of our cats choose this one!
Here’s 法櫃奇兵 (Raiders of the Lost Ark) from an unknown Taiwan distributor (maybe 立達 “Leader”).
Not sure if the titles on these carts were written at the factory or by the end user. I lean toward the former, but don’t know.
Here’s 法櫃奇兵 (Raiders of the Lost Ark) from an unknown Taiwan distributor (maybe 立達 “Leader”).
Not sure if the titles on these carts were written at the factory or by the end user. I lean toward the former, but don’t know.
January 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
It’s Random Game Saturday once more. I let one of our cats choose this one!
Here’s 法櫃奇兵 (Raiders of the Lost Ark) from an unknown Taiwan distributor (maybe 立達 “Leader”).
Not sure if the titles on these carts were written at the factory or by the end user. I lean toward the former, but don’t know.
Here’s 法櫃奇兵 (Raiders of the Lost Ark) from an unknown Taiwan distributor (maybe 立達 “Leader”).
Not sure if the titles on these carts were written at the factory or by the end user. I lean toward the former, but don’t know.