Image: @Atari Atari has announced it will be publishing a new 7800+ compatible port of the Miner 2049er sequel Bounty Bob Strikes Back! Miner 2049er was an incredibly influential early platforming game created by the programmer Bill Hogue and Big Five Software that saw players take control of the mountie Bounty Bob as he explored … Read more
Image: FMTwo Game Inc. We’re all well aware that today’s Atari is a very different beast from the one that blazed such a trail in the ’70s and ’80s with its arcade and console hardware. The Atari name has changed hands multiple times since the company’s halcyon days, and, to be fair, the modern-day iteration … Read more
Image: Eclipse Software The publisher Songbird Productions and developer Eclipse Software are teaming up to deliver a brand new Atari Jaguar port of the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga shoot ’em up Wings of Death. Wings of Death was first released by Eclipse Software for the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga back in 1990 and … Read more
Image: @Atari Atari has announced that it has acquired the rights to Chris Sawyer’s transport simulation game Transport Tycoon. Originally released in 1994 for MS-DOS by Microprose, Transport Tycoon put players in control of a transport company in the 1930s and tasked them with creating an empire, using a variety of vehicles, including trucks, trains, … Read more
Image: Damien McFerran / Time Extension HyperMegaTech’s Super Pocket series was one of the year’s more pleasant surprises. Part of the Evercade family of systems, these dinky handhelds come pre-loaded with games but also run the rapidly expanding library of Evercade cartridges. To top it all off, they’re cheap and cheerful, costing just £50 each. … Read more