The Missing Retro Gamer features

[belgium]

how about an article on modded consoles and homecomputers , a special on musicsoftware for 8/16 bits and it's interfaces
and of course a special on the 'sexy' titles in the 80's .

[NorthWay]

Latest Edge has a report on a late-2014 book detailing 2600 game cover designs.
We need to hear lots more about this.

[Antiriad2097]

a late-2014 book detailing 2600 game cover designs.

Tell me more. Googling '2600 game cover design book' doesn't return anything useful.

[NorthWay]

Tell me more.

Edge #262, page 20.

KNOWLEDGE
ATARI DESIGN

GRAPHIC
DESIGN
How master artists
filled in Atari's blank

With only a 1.19MHz CPU to play
with, a lot of Atari 2600 design had
to be created outside the games
themselves by artists who brought
fantasies boldly to life.
In a new book, enthusiast Tim
Lapetino looks at the history of Atari
game covers, such as 1979's Video
Chess (pictured), starting from the
console's debut in 1977. "The visual
styles are a combination of the
artists' creativity and the inherent
limitations of the console itself", he
says. "Those beautiful illustrations
served as a gateway connecting
the imaginations of gamers to the
simple game graphics."
Video Chess is just one of 136
pieces Atari commissioned. "At
times I've felt like a private eye,"
Lapetino says, "paging through old
magazines, internal Atari
newletters, viewing negatives
through printers' loupes. We've
unearthed a lot about the culture of
the artists and Atari, and we're
excited to preserve these stories."
Lapetino hopes The Art Of Atari:
From Pixels To Paintbrush
will be out for Christmas 2014.

---
And to the right and below is the cover of said chess game. Article fills the whole page.

[NorthWay]

Could the original tune for Archon be of interest? http://spelpappan.se/2014/01/ever-heard ... hon-theme/

[NorthWay]

Too late for #127, but anyway:

10 most widely ported arcade games. (You could do a 10 most versions of computer games too.)
10 most unofficially converted arcade games.
10 most sold arcade games.

This is deffo a minefield in getting right, so you might want to add a small disclaimer about "to our best knowledge"

Have some more list based articles:
Companies with most #1 sales charts releases
Programmers/teams with most #1 sales charts releases
Games with the most weeks/months at #1

[kiwimike]

Tell me more.

Edge #262, page 20.

KNOWLEDGE
ATARI DESIGN

GRAPHIC
DESIGN
How master artists
filled in Atari's blank

With only a 1.19MHz CPU to play
with, a lot of Atari 2600 design had
to be created outside the games
themselves by artists who brought
fantasies boldly to life.
In a new book, enthusiast Tim
Lapetino looks at the history of Atari
game covers, such as 1979's Video
Chess (pictured), starting from the
console's debut in 1977. "The visual
styles are a combination of the
artists' creativity and the inherent
limitations of the console itself", he
says. "Those beautiful illustrations
served as a gateway connecting
the imaginations of gamers to the
simple game graphics."
Video Chess is just one of 136
pieces Atari commissioned. "At
times I've felt like a private eye,"
Lapetino says, "paging through old
magazines, internal Atari
newletters, viewing negatives
through printers' loupes. We've
unearthed a lot about the culture of
the artists and Atari, and we're
excited to preserve these stories."
Lapetino hopes The Art Of Atari:
From Pixels To Paintbrush
will be out for Christmas 2014.

---
And to the right and below is the cover of said chess game. Article fills the whole page.

Sounds great!

[Lost Dragon]

Has there ever been an in-depth look at Databyte (Polar Pierre, Mr Robot etc)? or would that be too 8 Bit and be entering realms of A8 again far too soon for many? (they published on C64 and A8).

Only ask as used to see a lot of their adverts in Atari User and would love to know what became of:Adam Caveman (screens looked like mock-up's to myself) and Mumbles Super Spy.

Be nice to get hold of Rainbow Arts, find out why, despite securing rights to 8 bit classics like: Rescue On Fractalus, Koronis Rift, Ballblazer and The Eidolon, they only ever bothered with Ballblazer update on ST/Amiga, in form of Masterblaster.

[Lost Dragon]

If any Freelancer is looking at doing a feature on Lucasfilm games during the 8 bit era, give us a shout.Discovered some gems of info i'd love to get answered.Don't want to say too much just yet.....

[rockdjuk]

What's happened to the Champ/Football Manager article ?

[NorthWay]

We have seen many console/machine retrospectives - often with a rather in-depth technical discussion - but how about doing the same for the various arcade systems? There are a good number that were "platforms" in their own right and not just one-offs. Somebody must have made those. Can't you find these and talk to them about the machinery and then list games written for it?

I believe it some times might have relevance to home systems, like the Megadrive is based on a SEGA arcade board? The Atari 7800 has always been said to be doing things "like arcade machines" whatever that is. How have home and arcade hw developed and what inspiration might they have found from each other?

[Darran@Retro Gamer]

We actually did do a few of these. A very long time ago. I may speak to Mike bevan and see if we can return to them

Darran

[HalcyonDaze00]

What's happened to the Champ/Football Manager article ?

indeed, still a glaring omission.

[sscott]

Extend the mini bugs/can't be completed feature this issue into a bigger article.

[NorthWay]

Latest Edge has a report on a late-2014 book detailing 2600 game cover designs.
We need to hear lots more about this.

Might be the top story right now at http://www.atariage.com/.