Atari 2600 Memories
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batari Basic and Programming Related Pages

batari Basic Commands If you always dreamed of making your own Atari 2600 games, but Assembly Language was just too hard to learn, your dreams are about to come true. Now you can finally make the games of your dreams with an easy-to-use BASIC-like language called batari Basic.

Visual batari Basic Guide Learn about Visual batari Basic, the bB IDE. VbB has all kinds of useful tools that make creating games with batari Basic more fun and speeds up the process so you can get your game from idea to reality faster than ever before.

The bB Music and Sound Page Adapted info and charts related to Atari 2600 music and sound. Includes and adapted version of the Atari 2600 VCS Sound Frequency And Waveform Guide by Eckhard Stolberg.

The bB Music and Sound Data Creation Toy Play real Atari 2600 sounds online and create data for your bB programs.

The bB Motivation & Creativity Page Self-esteem or perfectionist issues? Fear of criticism? Idea well dried up? Lost interest? The quotes, videos, and links on this page might help.

bB Tools and Toys Includes a conversion utility to change hex to decimal or binary to hex or whatever combination you need.

Atari 2600 Game Standards and Procedures Official Atari document from 1987 with errors corrected.

Random Terrain's Game Design Guidelines My personal guidelines for making Atari 2600 games.

My batari Basic Programs

Tone Toy 2008

 

 

 

Memories

To What Degree Do You Love E.T.? This is a 5 page subsection about E.T. with opinions, tips, videos, manual scan, and a map. Manual Scan - Map - Tips and Reminders - E.T. Appreciation Page

Atari 2600 History (1982-1983) Incomplete chronological history with month/year release dates for various games along with lists of popular movies, TV shows, Top 40 music, new arcade games, and so on.

Ads and Promotionals Scans from my collection.

Atari Age Assortment A few of my favorite pages from Atari Age Magazine.

Favorite Atari 2600 Games A list of my favorite games.

 

 

The Fortress of infinitude

This section of my web site is an extension of a silly little Atari 2600 VCS club that I created for me and a couple people I knew back in 1982. That club was called The Fortress of infinitude. I made club membership cards, a few posters, and some T-shirts.

 

In 1983, The Fortress of infinitude was transformed into a future arcade idea for a school project. The slogan I made up for it was, Warning: Once You Enter, You May Never Want to Leave. The Fortress of infinitude was to be a sanctuary for older games with an infinite supply of new games adding to the list. I liked the idea of a fortress that protected the old games, but had new games coming in all the time. No game would ever be lost. This new F of i was a giant futuristic castle with walls that looked like old stone. The basement would look like a huge cave with realistic looking cave walls and would have indoor miniature golf and a mini-amusement park, including my favorite ride, the Tilt-A-Whirl. Since most people like the look and feel of original arcade and pinball games, The Fortress of infinitude would have many floors dedicated to the games of the late 1970s through the 1980s. It would probably have 2 years of games for each floor.

 

Not only would there be arcade games on the other floors, but there would be a library of home video games and computer games that people could select from an arcade-game-like control panel. Each player would have credit card sized memory cards that would remember all of their individual game playing information. For example, If you were in the middle of playing a game and you had to leave, the card would remember your place so you could continue playing another day.

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