Into The Vertical Blank : Generation Atari

This episode takes a slightly more personal turn as twin brother hosts Jeff and Steve Fulton tell stories and relive memories of playing together in both analog and digital ways  in the 1970’s. The episode includes an original non-fiction story by Steve Fulton titled “Big Mouse And Little Mouse 1.0”.  (Remaster adds a section to this story).  This episode also features an interview with Jamie Lendino about his book “Adventure: The Atari VCS At The Dawn Of Console Gaming”.   Show Notes   Extreme Tech Website edited by Jamie Lendino:  https://www.extremetech.com/ Adventure: The Atari 2600 at the Dawn of Console Gaming” by Jamie Lendino:   Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation” by Jamie Lendino   Generation X/Generation Atari Podcasts The Essential Growing up 80’s Podcast - https://player.fm/series/growing-up-80s Gen X Grownup Podcast: http://genxgrownup.com/ More 80’s podcasts on Player FM - https://player.fm/en/podcasts/80's-podcasts Atari ST and 400/800/XL/XE Podcasts Antic - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/ XE Game By Game - http://xegs8bit.com/ XL/XE - https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/xlxe-xlxe-uvPGcxAZnHD/ Player / Missile - https://playermissile.com/ Inverse ATASCII - https://inverseatascii.info/ Atari Game Podcasts Ferg’s amazing Atari 2600 Game By Game Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-2600-game-by-game-podcast Atari Bytes - https://player.fm/series/atari-bytes T

This episode takes a slightly more personal turn as twin brother hosts Jeff and Steve Fulton tell stories and relive memories of playing together in both analog and digital ways  in the 1970’s. The episode includes an original non-fiction story by Steve Fulton titled “Big Mouse And Little Mouse 1.0”. This episode also features an interview with Jamie Lendino about his book “Adventure: The Atari VCS At The Dawn Of Console Gaming”.   Show Notes   Extreme Tech Website edited by Jamie Lendino:  https://www.extremetech.com/ Adventure: The Atari 2600 at the Dawn of Console Gaming” by Jamie Lendino:   Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation” by Jamie Lendino   Generation X/Generation Atari Podcasts The Essential Growing up 80’s Podcast - https://player.fm/series/growing-up-80s Gen X Grownup Podcast: http://genxgrownup.com/ More 80’s podcasts on Player FM - https://player.fm/en/podcasts/80's-podcasts Atari ST and 400/800/XL/XE Podcasts Antic - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/ XE Game By Game - http://xegs8bit.com/ XL/XE - https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/xlxe-xlxe-uvPGcxAZnHD/ Player / Missile - https://playermissile.com/ Inverse ATASCII - https://inverseatascii.info/ Atari Game Podcasts Ferg’s amazing Atari 2600 Game By Game Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-2600-game-by-game-podcast Atari Bytes - https://player.fm/series/atari-bytes The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast (classic episodes) - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-7800-game-by-game-podcast Shinto’s Jaguar game by game Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-jaguar-game-by-game-podcast The Atari 5200 Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-5200-podcast The Atari 7800 Homebrew Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-7800-homebrew-podcast The Atari Lynx Handy Cast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-lynx-handycast The Atari 5200 Super Community Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-5200-super-community The Best of the rest (if you are not listed an want to be , please contact us) The Amazing Intellivisionaries Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-intellivisionaries-podcastIntarivisions - Atari, Intellivision and Coleco common games - https://player.fm/series/intarivisions The Pie Factory Podcast - https://piefactorypodcast.wordpress.com/ The Floppy Days Podcast -  https://player.fm/series/floppydays-vintage-computing-podcast   Essential Podcasts that might be of interest to this community Writer Types Podcast: http://swlauden.com/writer-types-podcast/ Reply-All - https://player.fm/series/reply-all The Moth - https://themoth.org/podcast Story Corps - https://storycorps.org/podcast/ Never let the fires die The official Alarm Podcast - http://thealarm.com/feed/podcast/ Comfortable Place on the Couch The Midnight Oil Podcast - http://darrenfoulds.com/podcasts/index.html

This episode takes a slightly more personal turn as twin brother hosts Jeff and Steve Fulton tell stories and relive memories of playing together in both analog and digital ways  in the 1970’s. The episode includes an original non-fiction story by Steve Fulton titled “Big Mouse And Little Mouse 1.0”. This episode also features an interview with Jamie Lendino about his book “Adventure: The Atari VCS At The Dawn Of Console Gaming”.   Show Notes   Extreme Tech Website edited by Jamie Lendino:  https://www.extremetech.com/ Adventure: The Atari 2600 at the Dawn of Console Gaming” by Jamie Lendino:   Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation” by Jamie Lendino   Generation X/Generation Atari Podcasts The Essential Growing up 80’s Podcast - https://player.fm/series/growing-up-80s Gen X Grownup Podcast: http://genxgrownup.com/ More 80’s podcasts on Player FM - https://player.fm/en/podcasts/80's-podcasts Atari ST and 400/800/XL/XE Podcasts Antic - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/ XE Game By Game - http://xegs8bit.com/ XL/XE - https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/xlxe-xlxe-uvPGcxAZnHD/ Player / Missile - https://playermissile.com/ Inverse ATASCII - https://inverseatascii.info/ Atari Game Podcasts Ferg’s amazing Atari 2600 Game By Game Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-2600-game-by-game-podcast Atari Bytes - https://player.fm/series/atari-bytes The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast (classic episodes) - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-7800-game-by-game-podcast Shinto’s Jaguar game by game Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-jaguar-game-by-game-podcast The Atari 5200 Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-5200-podcast The Atari 7800 Homebrew Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-7800-homebrew-podcast The Atari Lynx Handy Cast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-lynx-handycast The Atari 5200 Super Community Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-5200-super-community The Best of the rest (if you are not listed an want to be , please contact us) The Amazing Intellivisionaries Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-intellivisionaries-podcastIntarivisions - Atari, Intellivision and Coleco common games - https://player.fm/series/intarivisions The Pie Factory Podcast - https://piefactorypodcast.wordpress.com/ The Floppy Days Podcast -  https://player.fm/series/floppydays-vintage-computing-podcast   Essential Podcasts that might be of interest to this community Writer Types Podcast: http://swlauden.com/writer-types-podcast/ Reply-All - https://player.fm/series/reply-all The Moth - https://themoth.org/podcast Story Corps - https://storycorps.org/podcast/ Never let the fires die The official Alarm Podcast - http://thealarm.com/feed/podcast/ Comfortable Place on the Couch The Midnight Oil Podcast - http://darrenfoulds.com/podcasts/index.html

The only thing from the 80's that could rival our love for Atari was our love for punk rock and new wave, and especially, our favorite band: The Alarm.  In 1987 those two things combined in an unexpected way. So unexpected in fact, that we were only able to fully understand impact of those two world's clashing more than 30 years later.  This episode documents that journey to understanding. In 1987 we gave up the "Little Blue Desktop " of Atari 800 DOS for the Little Green Desktop of the Atari 520 ST.  At that exact moment in time, the music industry was changing dramatically from one that used mostly analog recording practices to adding digital instruments and recording methods into the Studio. The ATARI (ubiquitously known without the ST) mostly in studios was the cheapest, most accurate sequencer on the market. The list of bands that used an Atari ST for recording was compiled from the following sources: Atari Age,com forums, Sounds On Sounds Forum, https://www.musictech.net/, Matt Aniss and http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/,  stuff.tv, Wikipedia and Google. Matt Aniss has written the definitive exploration of the Atari ST an MIDI “Instumental Instruments- The Atari ST” http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/10/atari-st-instrumental-instruments The Snippets of Alarm, songs played were used under fair use guidelines for the purposes of criticism.  They were as follows: Rain In The Summertime from the Album Eye Of The Hurricane, 1987 Declaration - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984 Marching On - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984 Across The Border - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984 Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke?  - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984 Unsafe Building - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984 The Stand  - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984 Rain In The Summertime (Live) from the album Electric Folklore Live, 1988 Rescue Me, live at the Tower In Philadelphia, April 16th, 1988 Sold Me Down The River

The only thing from the 80's that could rival our love for Atari was our love for punk rock and new wave, and especially, our favorite band: The Alarm.  In 1987 those two things combined in an unexpected way. So unexpected in fact, that we were only able to fully understand impact of those two world's clashing more than 30 years later.  This episode documents that journey to understanding. In 1987 we gave up the "Little Blue Desktop " of Atari 800 DOS for the Little Green Desktop of the Atari 520 ST.  At that exact moment in time, the music industry was changing dramatically from one that used mostly analog recording practices to adding digital instruments and recording methods into the Studio. The ATARI (ubiquitously known without the ST) mostly in studios was the cheapest, most accurate sequencer on the market. The list of bands that used an Atari ST for recording was compiled from the following sources: Atari Age,com forums, Sounds On Sounds Forum, https://www.musictech.net/, Matt Aniss and http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/,  stuff.tv, Wikipedia and Google. Matt Aniss has written the definitive exploration of the Atari ST an MIDI “Instumental Instruments- The Atari ST” http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/10/atari-st-instrumental-instruments The Snippets of Alarm, songs played were used under fair use guidelines for the purposes of criticism.  They were as follows: Rain In The Summertime from the Album Eye Of The Hurricane, 1987 Declaration - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984 Marching On - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984 Across The Border - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984 Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke?  - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984 Unsafe Building - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984 The Stand  - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984 Rain In The Summertime (Live) from the album Electric Folklore Live, 1988 Rescue Me, live at the Tower In Philadelphia, April 16th, 1988 Sold Me Down The River

The only thing from the 80's that could rival our love for Atari was our love for punk rock and new wave, and especially, our favorite band: The Alarm.  In 1987 those two things combined in an unexpected way. So unexpected in fact, that we were only able to fully understand impact of those two world's clashing more than 30 years later.  This episode documents that journey to understanding. In 1987 we gave up the "Little Blue Desktop " of Atari 800 DOS for the Little Green Desktop of the Atari 520 ST.  At that exact moment in time, the music industry was changing dramatically from one that used mostly analog recording practices to adding digital instruments and recording methods into the Studio. The ATARI (ubiquitously known without the ST) mostly in studios was the cheapest, most accurate sequencer on the market. The list of bands that used an Atari ST for recording was compiled from the following sources: Atari Age,com forums, Sounds On Sounds Forum, https://www.musictech.net/, Matt Aniss and http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/,  stuff.tv, Wikipedia and Google. Matt Aniss has written the definitive exploration of the Atari ST an MIDI “Instumental Instruments- The Atari ST” http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/10/atari-st-instrumental-instruments The Snippets of Alarm, songs played were used under fair use guidelines for the purposes of criticism.  They were as follows: Rain In The Summertime from the Album Eye Of The Hurricane, 1987 Declaration - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984 Marching On - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984 Across The Border - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984 Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke?  - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984 Unsafe Building - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984 The Stand  - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984 Rain In The Summertime (Live) from the album Electric Folklore Live, 1988 Rescue Me, live at the Tower In Philadelphia, April 16th, 1988 Sold Me Down The River, from the album Change, 1989 Hardland, , from the album Change, 1989 Change 2, from the album Change, 1989 Prison Without Prison Bars , from the album Change, 1989 Rivers To Cross, from the album Change, 1989 Change 1, b-side of Raw singe, 1991 Two Rivers, from the album Equals, 2018 13 Dead Reindeer , from the album Equals, 2018 Tomorrow, from the album Equals, 2018 Atari Dos 2.X - Inside Atari DOS Byby Bill Wilkinson, published 1982 https://www.atariarchives.org/iad/ Atari ST TOS 1.0 Information, pictures, morehttp://toastytech.com/guis/tos.html BAAL - Atari ST - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=baal+atari+st Better Dead than Alien - Atari ST - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=better+dead+than+alien+atari+st A selection of Atari ST game videos featuring music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_JcYTI-HT4&list=PLvf41E1k8S56HHewILZJ07qDZdRJP-UcO The History of Midihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHmshRb5HQs 1986 Discussion of Midi Computers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-UtxKEXAAk PODCAST ROLL: Atari ST and 400/800/XL/XE Podcasts Antic - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/ XE Game By Game - http://xegs8bit.com/ XL/XE - https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/xlxe-xlxe-uvPGcxAZnHD/ Player / Missile - https://playermissile.com/ Inverse ATASCII - https://inverseatascii.info/ Atari Game Podcasts Ferg’s amazing Atari 2600 Game By Game Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-2600-game-by-game-podcast Atari Bytes - https://player.fm/series/atari-bytes The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast (classic episodes) - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-7800-game-by-game-podcast Shinto’s Jaguar game by game Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-jaguar-game-by-game-podcast The Atari 5200 Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-5200-podcast The Atari 7800 Homebrew Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-7800-homebrew-podcast The Atari Lynx Handy Cast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-lynx-handycast The Atari 5200 Super Community Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-5200-super-community The Best of the rest (if you are not listed an want to be , please contact us) The Amazing Intellivisionaries Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-intellivisionaries-podcastThe Essential Growing up 80’s Podcast - https://player.fm/series/growing-up-80s Intarivisions - Atari, Intellivision and Coleco common games - https://player.fm/series/intarivisions The Pie Factory Podcast - https://piefactorypodcast.wordpress.com/ The Floppy Days Podcast -  https://player.fm/series/floppydays-vintage-computing-podcast Essential Podcasts that might be of interest to this community Reply-All - https://player.fm/series/reply-all The Moth - https://themoth.org/podcast Story Corps - https://storycorps.org/podcast/ Never let the fires die The official Alarm Podcast - http://thealarm.com/feed/podcast/ Comfortable Place on the Couch The Midnight Oil Podcast - http://darrenfoulds.com/podcasts/index.html More 80’s podcasts on Player FM - https://player.fm/en/podcasts/80's-podcasts

The only thing from the 80's that could rival our love for Atari was our love for punk rock and new wave, and especially, our favorite band: The Alarm.  In 1987 those two things combined in an unexpected way. So unexpected in fact, that we were only able to fully understand impact of those two world's clashing more than 30 years later.  This episode documents that journey to understanding. In 1987 we gave up the "Little Blue Desktop " of Atari 800 DOS for the Little Green Desktop of the Atari 520 ST.  At that exact moment in time, the music industry was changing dramatically from one that used mostly analog recording practices to adding digital instruments and recording methods into the Studio. The ATARI (ubiquitously known without the ST) mostly in studios was the cheapest, most accurate sequencer on the market. The list of bands that used an Atari ST for recording was compiled from the following sources: Atari Age,com forums, Sounds On Sounds Forum, https://www.musictech.net/, Matt Aniss and http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/,  stuff.tv, Wikipedia and Google. Matt Aniss has written the definitive exploration of the Atari ST an MIDI “Instumental Instruments- The Atari ST” http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/10/atari-st-instrumental-instruments The Snippets of Alarm, songs played were used under fair use guidelines for the purposes of criticism.  They were as follows: Rain In The Summertime from the Album Eye Of The Hurricane, 1987 Declaration - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984 Marching On - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984 Across The Border - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984 Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke?  - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984 Unsafe Building - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984 The Stand  - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984 Rain In The Summertime (Live) from the album Electric Folklore Live, 1988 Rescue Me, live at the Tower In Philadelphia, April 16th, 1988 Sold Me Down The River, from the album Change, 1989 Hardland, , from the album Change, 1989 Change 2, from the album Change, 1989 Prison Without Prison Bars , from the album Change, 1989 Rivers To Cross, from the album Change, 1989 Change 1, b-side of Raw singe, 1991 Two Rivers, from the album Equals, 2018 13 Dead Reindeer , from the album Equals, 2018 Tomorrow, from the album Equals, 2018 Atari Dos 2.X - Inside Atari DOS Byby Bill Wilkinson, published 1982 https://www.atariarchives.org/iad/ Atari ST TOS 1.0 Information, pictures, morehttp://toastytech.com/guis/tos.html BAAL - Atari ST - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=baal+atari+st Better Dead than Alien - Atari ST - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=better+dead+than+alien+atari+st A selection of Atari ST game videos featuring music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_JcYTI-HT4&list=PLvf41E1k8S56HHewILZJ07qDZdRJP-UcO The History of Midihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHmshRb5HQs 1986 Discussion of Midi Computers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-UtxKEXAAk PODCAST ROLL: Atari ST and 400/800/XL/XE Podcasts Antic - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/ XE Game By Game - http://xegs8bit.com/ XL/XE - https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/xlxe-xlxe-uvPGcxAZnHD/ Player / Missile - https://playermissile.com/ Inverse ATASCII - https://inverseatascii.info/ Atari Game Podcasts Ferg’s amazing Atari 2600 Game By Game Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-2600-game-by-game-podcast Atari Bytes - https://player.fm/series/atari-bytes The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast (classic episodes) - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-7800-game-by-game-podcast Shinto’s Jaguar game by game Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-jaguar-game-by-game-podcast The Atari 5200 Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-5200-podcast The Atari 7800 Homebrew Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-7800-homebrew-podcast The Atari Lynx Handy Cast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-lynx-handycast The Atari 5200 Super Community Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-5200-super-community The Best of the rest (if you are not listed an want to be , please contact us) The Amazing Intellivisionaries Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-intellivisionaries-podcastThe Essential Growing up 80’s Podcast - https://player.fm/series/growing-up-80s Intarivisions - Atari, Intellivision and Coleco common games - https://player.fm/series/intarivisions The Pie Factory Podcast - https://piefactorypodcast.wordpress.com/ The Floppy Days Podcast -  https://player.fm/series/floppydays-vintage-computing-podcast Essential Podcasts that might be of interest to this community Reply-All - https://player.fm/series/reply-all The Moth - https://themoth.org/podcast Story Corps - https://storycorps.org/podcast/ Never let the fires die The official Alarm Podcast - http://thealarm.com/feed/podcast/ Comfortable Place on the Couch The Midnight Oil Podcast - http://darrenfoulds.com/podcasts/index.html More 80’s podcasts on Player FM - https://player.fm/en/podcasts/80's-podcasts

Into the Vertical Blank - Generation Atari: Season 1, Episode 5.  All Appointments Life (Asteroids Part 2 ) This is the second episode where we will be covering the game Asteroids in story and discussion form. We have a story from 8bitjeff, and also very nice contributions Shinto, and Jim Fullerton. The discussion dives into versions of Asteroids (and clones) after the arcade 2600, 5200 and Vectrex. These the Atari 7800, ST, Lynx, and various versions released for more modern hardware. All music, sound FX and production on the Episode By Jeff and Steve Fulton. Links:Download an EXE file of Jeff’s Retro Evolved Asteroids game, Retro Blaster. If you have the Flash Plug-in, you can play the browser version of Retro Blaster here. 8bitrocket.com Blog Posts on of the Essential Guide to Flash Games Book By Steve and Jeff Fulton The Essential Guide to Flash Games Infomercial The Essential Guide to Flash Games Book Preview Video Podcast If you have the Flash Plug-In, you can play the Book Asteroids game called Blaster Mines Buy the Essential Guide to Flash Games on Amazon. 8bitrocket.com Blog Posts on The HTML5 Canvas Book By Steve and Jeff Fulton The HTML5 Canvas Asteroids Game, Geo Blaster Basic 8bitrocket.com 5 HTML5 IOS and Android Demo Games including Retro Blaster Touch Buy the HTM 5 Canvas by Jeff and Steve Fulton on Amazon Shinto’s Jaguar Game by Game Podcast Upcoming Episode: Buy the books for the book club so you can read too! Gamelife By Michael W. Clune Adventure, The Atari 2600 at the Dawn of Console Gaming by Jamie Lendino  

Into the Vertical Blank - Generation Atari: Season 1, Episode 5.  All Appointments Life (Asteroids Part 2 ) This is the second episode where we will be covering the game Asteroids in story and discussion form. We have a story from 8bitjeff, and also very nice contributions Shinto, and Jim Fullerton. The discussion dives into versions of Asteroids (and clones) after the arcade 2600, 5200 and Vectrex. These the Atari 7800, ST, Lynx, and various versions released for more modern hardware. All music, sound FX and production on the Episode By Jeff and Steve Fulton. Links:Download an EXE file of Jeff’s Retro Evolved Asteroids game, Retro Blaster. If you have the Flash Plug-in, you can play the browser version of Retro Blaster here. 8bitrocket.com Blog Posts on of the Essential Guide to Flash Games Book By Steve and Jeff Fulton The Essential Guide to Flash Games Infomercial The Essential Guide to Flash Games Book Preview Video Podcast If you have the Flash Plug-In, you can play the Book Asteroids game called Blaster Mines Buy the Essential Guide to Flash Games on Amazon. 8bitrocket.com Blog Posts on The HTML5 Canvas Book By Steve and Jeff Fulton The HTML5 Canvas Asteroids Game, Geo Blaster Basic 8bitrocket.com 5 HTML5 IOS and Android Demo Games including Retro Blaster Touch Buy the HTM 5 Canvas by Jeff and Steve Fulton on Amazon

Into the Vertical Blank - Generation Atari: Season 1, Episode 5.  All Appointments Life (Asteroids Part 2 ) This is the second episode where we will be covering the game Asteroids in story and discussion form. We have a story from 8bitjeff, and also very nice contributions Shinto, and Jim Fullerton. The discussion dives into versions of Asteroids (and clones) after the arcade 2600, 5200 and Vectrex. These the Atari 7800, ST, Lynx, and various versions released for more modern hardware. All music, sound FX and production on the Episode By Jeff and Steve Fulton. Links:Download an EXE file of Jeff’s Retro Evolved Asteroids game, Retro Blaster. If you have the Flash Plug-in, you can play the browser version of Retro Blaster here. 8bitrocket.com Blog Posts on of the Essential Guide to Flash Games Book By Steve and Jeff Fulton The Essential Guide to Flash Games Infomercial The Essential Guide to Flash Games Book Preview Video Podcast If you have the Flash Plug-In, you can play the Book Asteroids game called Blaster Mines Buy the Essential Guide to Flash Games on Amazon. 8bitrocket.com Blog Posts on The HTML5 Canvas Book By Steve and Jeff Fulton The HTML5 Canvas Asteroids Game, Geo Blaster Basic 8bitrocket.com 5 HTML5 IOS and Android Demo Games including Retro Blaster Touch Buy the HTM 5 Canvas by Jeff and Steve Fulton on Amazon

Into The Vertical Blank: Generation Atari Season 1, Episode 4: Escape To The Asteroids Zone Part 1. In Part One of our two-part extravaganza,  we delve into the that game forms the backdrop of The Vertical Blank: Asteroids. We discuss our experiences with  Atari’s best selling coin-op and discover why this game, in particular, means so much to us. This episode includes a story written by Steve Fulton named, appropriately enough, “Escape To The Asteroids Zone” Show Notes The intro music and many, but not all, of the ambient 8-bit sounds you hear through out the podcast were created with a loop library by 8bitweapon. Reach us for  comments and suggestions via email at 8bitrocket.collectibles@gmail.com Links 1001 Video Games To play Before You Die by Tony Mott The First Quarter  By Steven Kent 8bitweapon The 8bitrocket.com site FaceBook Into the Vertical Blank Twitter Into The Vertical Blank (@Atari_VB_POD) Twitter 8itrocket (@8bitrocket)  Jeff’s Twitter Twitter FultonBot (@fultonbot) Steve’s Twitter

Into The Vertical Blank: Generation Atari Season 1, Episode 4: Escape To The Asteroids Zone Part 1. In Part One of our two-part extravaganza,  we delve into the that game forms the backdrop of The Vertical Blank: Asteroids. We discuss our experiences with  Atari’s best selling coin-op and discover why this game, in particular, means so much to us. This episode includes a story written by Steve Fulton named, appropriately enough, “Escape To The Asteroids Zone” Show Notes The intro music and many, but not all, of the ambient 8-bit sounds you hear through out the podcast were created with a loop library by 8bitweapon. Reach us for  comments and suggestions via email at 8bitrocket.collectibles@gmail.com Links 1001 Video Games To play Before You Die by Tony Mott The First Quarter  By Steven Kent 8bitweapon The 8bitrocket.com site FaceBook Into the Vertical Blank Twitter Into The Vertical Blank (@Atari_VB_POD) Twitter 8itrocket (@8bitrocket)  Jeff’s Twitter Twitter FultonBot (@fultonbot) Steve’s Twitter

Into The Vertical Blank: Generation Atari Season 1, Episode 4: Escape To The Asteroids Zone Part 1. In Part One of our two-part extravaganza,  we delve into the that game forms the backdrop of The Vertical Blank: Asteroids. We discuss our experiences with  Atari’s best selling coin-op and discover why this game, in particular, means so much to us. This episode includes a story written by Steve Fulton named, appropriately enough, “Escape To The Asteroids Zone” Show Notes The intro music and many, but not all, of the ambient 8-bit sounds you hear through out the podcast were created with a loop library by 8bitweapon. Reach us for  comments and suggestions via email at 8bitrocket.collectibles@gmail.com Links 1001 Video Games To play Before You Die by Tony Mott The First Quarter  By Steven Kent 8bitweapon The 8bitrocket.com site FaceBook Into the Vertical Blank Twitter Into The Vertical Blank (@Atari_VB_POD) Twitter 8itrocket (@8bitrocket)  Jeff’s Twitter Twitter FultonBot (@fultonbot) Steve’s Twitter

Into The Vertical Blank: Generation Atari Season 1, Episode 3:  Atari Nerd In this episode we dig up one of our first podcasts from December 2008, which is one of the first Atari dedicated podcasts ever recorded.  This low-fi descent into the aughties, complete with bad mics, driving noise, and half-baked ideas is where we began. It’s also a bit prophetic about Atari in 2018.   We also have a couple short nonfiction pieces by Steve Fulton,  a collection update from Jeff, and more. Our next episode will be about the game Asteroids in all forms including sequels and inspired games.  If you have a story about any Asteroids or related game, please send them to 8bitrocket.collectibles@gmail.com or DM them to @Atari_VB_Pod on Twitter. Show Notes The intro music and many, but not all, of the ambient 8-bit sounds you hear through out the podcast were created with a loop library by 8bitweapon. Reach us for  comments and suggestions via email at 8bitrocket.collectibles@gmail.com Links Original Atari Nerd Podcast: http://www.8bitrocket.com/2008/12/02/atari-nerdpodcast-1-bonus/ Original VGFS 8200 Post: 8bitweapon The 8bitrocket.com site FaceBook Into the Vertical Blank Twitter Into The Vertical Blank (@Atari_VB_POD) Twitter 8itrocket (@8bitrocket)  Jeff’s Twitter Twitter FultonBot (@fultonbot) Steve’s Twitter Nir Dary’s Twitter Nir Dary’s YouTube Brilliance Buy Making Games for the  Atari 2600 By Steve Hugg

Into The Vertical Blank: Generation Atari Season 1, Episode 3:  Atari Nerd In this episode we dig up one of our first podcasts from December 2008, which is one of the first Atari dedicated podcasts ever recorded.  This low-fi descent into the aughties, complete with bad mics, driving noise, and half-baked ideas is where we began. It’s also a bit prophetic about Atari in 2018.   We also have a couple short nonfiction pieces by Steve Fulton,  a collection update from Jeff, and more. Our next episode will be about the game Asteroids in all forms including sequels and inspired games.  If you have a story about any Asteroids or related game, please send them to 8bitrocket.collectibles@gmail.com or DM them to @Atari_VB_Pod on Twitter. Show Notes The intro music and many, but not all, of the ambient 8-bit sounds you hear through out the podcast were created with a loop library by 8bitweapon. Reach us for  comments and suggestions via email at 8bitrocket.collectibles@gmail.com Links Original Atari Nerd Podcast: http://www.8bitrocket.com/2008/12/02/atari-nerdpodcast-1-bonus/ Original VGFS 8200 Post: 8bitweapon The 8bitrocket.com site FaceBook Into the Vertical Blank Twitter Into The Vertical Blank (@Atari_VB_POD) Twitter 8itrocket (@8bitrocket)  Jeff’s Twitter Twitter FultonBot (@fultonbot) Steve’s Twitter Nir Dary’s Twitter Nir Dary’s YouTube Brilliance Buy Making Games for the  Atari 2600 By Steve Hugg Buy Making 8-bit Arcade Games in C Buy The Atari Assembler Buy Atari 2600 Homebrew Games Volume 1 Find Atari XE Games on Ebay Find Atari 2600 Hero on Ebay Find Atari 7800 Super Skate Boardin’ on Ebay Find Atari 5200 Miner 2049er