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    Default 6 new Atari VCS/2600 games being released!

    Six new games for the Atari VCS/2600.

    Six previously unreleased games by developer Video Soft went on sale today, Dec. 15th , courtesy of Jerry Lawson. Pre-orders are now being accepted, with carts to ship next month. This is the single-largest cache of unreleased prototypes being sold at one time! The games are limited to 100 copies of each, after which the ROM binary files will be released.

    The games I'd consider complete are Genesis, Atom Smasher, and S.A.C. Alert. They could have used a few more days or weeks of polish, but are more complete in comparison to a lot of 3rd-party titles from back then (and I'm not even considering the Mythicon games ).

    Depth Charge is complete for basically being half of a game. The half that exists is similar to Sea Wolf. The missing half would have been similar to Atari's Depth Charge or Sega's Sub-Scan. It would have been cool to see it completed, but unlike a market crash 'victim' like Atom Smasher, a change in company plans sunk Depth Charge before it was finished.

    The Ghost Attack cart utilizes a menu program that was originally created for the Amiga Power-Play carts, and modified to run the 3 Ghost Attack prototypes separately. The first level is fully playable and after playing for a few minutes, it will auto-run the 2nd level. The collision-detection wasn't completed for this part, so there's no way to reach the 3rd part w/o running it from the menu. The 3rd part is playable but there's no ending (but some music for it is in the code).

    Havoc is close to being complete, but after reaching the end (it cycles back to the 2nd screen where it runs forever).

    With regards to the 3-D games, don't expect Avatar-like quality here the 3rd part of Ghost Attack and the 2nd screen in Havoc come close to pulling it off, but personally I think the resolution is too low with the games to pull off the effect convincingly. At least 2 other companies (one being Activision) either worked on or planned on releasing 3-D games, and didn't.

    The packaging is similar to what was done with Tim Duarte's Mean Santa game last year (see the website for photos), and we’re offering free shipping to anywhere for those ordering the complete set
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    Freakin' amazing. Good ol' Jerry Lawson and Mike Glass (for those of you who don't know, Jerry designed the first programmable cartridge based game console, the Fairchild Channel F, and Mike Glass was one of the more interesting programmers there - you can download the interview with Jerry from this page.) Jerry mentioned the ghost game in the interview, but I always assumed it was for the Channel F. It's so damn cool that these are finally getting out into the world.

    Quick question... will these be limited releases, or will you make them available as long as people want them? It's just that Christmastime has my money pretty tight, and I'd like to know there's going to be some carts left when I can afford them.

    And another thing... will these games come with red/blue 3-D glasses? Or would I need to provide my own?
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    Damn, I just read the 'limited to 100 copies' part. I got so excited when I looked at the descriptions I totally blanked on scrolling down to look at the info. I'm an idiot. Sorry.

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    Ordered my set, can't wait to play these! Thanks Scott for bringing these to everyone's attention! You rock!

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    Ghost Attack sure looks interesting,always good to see new work on VCS

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    I've been looking forward to this. Payment sent for a full set, thanks Scott!

    FYI the cart doesn't discount the shipping automatically, maybe you could add a "bundle" option to the main page?

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    Great stuff!


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    Congrats! Any chance for more clarity on the completeness of each of the respective games?

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    Quote Originally Posted by digitalpress View Post
    FYI the cart doesn't discount the shipping automatically, maybe you could add a "bundle" option to the main page?
    Yeah I was going to mention that too when I tested things earlier... if it's free shipping to the UK as well then it's a bit more enticing heh...

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    A kick-ass physical release AND a ROM release. You guys rock the house.
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    Excellent news.

    Good to see that these games finally get released.

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    I'm all for this! Just need to wait until Saturday and, hoping some are still left available, I will pick them all up!
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    just ordered my set. Thank you!

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    Just ordered a few sets. Can't wait to get this. I LOVE video game 3d, it's one of my favorite things.

    in my 'video game 3d' collection:

    vectrex imager cib and all games cib
    sms 3d glasses and all us sms 3d games and some tec toy ones that didnt make it out in the us.
    3d famicom glasses and games
    amiga 3d lcd glasses with the potato shooting game
    i think i have all of the tomy 3d vfd handhelds
    soon these 2600 games
    jim power snes
    victor maxx (what a piece of crap.)

    sure would love to have the original 3d hover force
    don't have the laseractive 3d glasses or
    the atari st cyber-eyes

    am I missing anything?

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    Very cool, thanks for the rom descriptions. I'm looking forward to reviewing these once the ROMs are released.

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    Quote Originally Posted by God-Zilla View Post
    Just ordered a few sets. Can't wait to get this. I LOVE video game 3d, it's one of my favorite things.

    in my 'video game 3d' collection:

    vectrex imager cib and all games cib
    sms 3d glasses and all us sms 3d games and some tec toy ones that didnt make it out in the us.
    3d famicom glasses and games
    amiga 3d lcd glasses with the potato shooting game
    i think i have all of the tomy 3d vfd handhelds
    soon these 2600 games
    jim power snes
    victor maxx (what a piece of crap.)

    sure would love to have the original 3d hover force
    don't have the laseractive 3d glasses or
    the atari st cyber-eyes

    am I missing anything?
    There's a UK game in 3D for Amstrad (maybe also ST), but I forgot the title.

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    There was one for the Vic20 and C64 as well called "3-Deep Space", came with the red/blue glasses too.

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    cool! I never knew there was a 3d vic 20 game! I love me some vic-20.

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    There was Spectravision's Vortex for the VCS/2600, 400/800, VIC 20, and TI-99/4a. It was shown at the Winter 1983 CES, but AFAIK no copies have surfaced. More info can be found here:

    http://www.digitpress.com/faq/vcsalt...alt.htm#vortex

    This was to be the first in a series of 3-D games, which used the red/blue glasses.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mayhem View Post
    There was one for the Vic20 and C64 as well called "3-Deep Space", came with the red/blue glasses too.
    Yep remember this well on Zx Spectrum
    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infos...cgi?id=0000035

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