KabutoCoder Atari 2600
At the end of October 2024, I released my first game for the Atari 2600 called «Invasion», which was very well received by the current Atari scene. Since then, I’ve developed three more games using the same DPC+ kernel used in major productions from Activision and Imagic in the commercial era.
The second game I released was «Mazinger 85», reminiscent of the Mazinger Z game I started developing on the Commodore 64 in 1985 and never finished. The only thing I had left was an old photo negative with screenshots from a CRT TV.
The third game, called «Umi Colors» is a game with a color mechanic where the character must transform into their color version, allowing them to kill aliens with the same color. It was a fast-paced game with 30 levels to overcome, and it’s based on my game «Umi 64» developed during the pandemic for the C64.
And finally, «Umi Machines» another script pulled from the vault of memories where the main mode is for two players, evoking the games of my childhood back in 1979, where I played for hours and hours with my siblings, cousins, and friends in what Atari called the family video game.
I’m leaving you the links to all the games and I hope you enjoy them as much as I’ve enjoyed these past few months developing my own collection of games for my beloved Atari 2600. They’re all free, but if you’d like to leave a contribution on their pages, I’d be very grateful, and I’ll use it to buy more retro hardware to inspire new creations.
Great Atari 2600 game lineup, sir!
Congratulations on all your releases, and I wish you the best in continuing to develop great games.
Thank you very much dear friend and yes I will continue making more games for the system, I already have a couple of ideas in my head hahaha