2048

In this sliding block puzzle game, you must slide numbered tiles on a grid to combine them and create a tile with the number 2048. Think of it as Candy Crush for math geeks!

Only 100 boxed & numbered copies were produced. This is a 16K cartridge.

They say the meek shall inherit the Earth, but how long can you defend it?

This is a Tempest clone, but with some unique differences. It was originally planned to be 1 of 3 "3-D" games on Power-Play Arcade cart #1. A screenshot was shown in a catalog for Amiga's Power System, but no description was included. It was programmed by Dan McElroy and Jerry Lawson implemented the use of 3-D. The game appears to be complete. As an added bonus, each game includes a set of 3-D glasses!

Only 100 boxed & numbered copies were produced. This is an 8K cartridge.

3D Havoc

Your stellar cruiser begins to shudder as the hyperwarp drive suddenly cuts out. Slowing down, you realize you've entered an asteroid field. A BIG asteroid field. You bolt for the high-density laser-pulse inverter. Your only chance is to blast your way out. And you'd better start now...

This was originally planned to be a cassette game for Amiga's Power Module peripheral. It was later planned to be 1 of 3 "3-D“ games on Power-Play Arcade cart #1. Jerry Lawson implemented the use of 3-D. The game is close to being complete, but after reaching the end, it cycles back to the 2nd screen where it runs forever. As an added bonus, each game includes a set of 3-D glasses!

Only 100 boxed & numbered copies were produced. This is an 8K cartridge.

You must defeat 16 waves of 6 aliens to save the colony,
and win 3 mother ship battles (every 6th level).

The aliens will try to knock out your laser cannon
and your laser cannon energy batteries.

Your laser cannon power supply will only last for a count of 60, so each wave must be defeated within that time so that the power supply can recharge between waves, or else your laser cannon will be rendered useless.

You have a shield which can be activated by pulling down on the joystick.

The shield will last for 1 second, but cannot be activated again for 4 seconds. The shield also puts a higher drain on your power (5 units).

Left Difficulty switch toggles between
multi-cannon (B) and single cannon (A) options.

It was a simple enough mission, return the ceremonial pants that the Prince of the Agrob system had left behind on his latest diplomatic mission to your home world. The journey to planet G45 was a pretty boring affair. Or so you thought! Not far into your mission, a squadron of ships appears on your radar, but it's not a welcoming committee! After the surprise of shots echoing against your hull, you scramble to get the ship into combat mode, knowing that your simple delivery mission has now turned into a fight for your life!

Allia Quest is Ebivision's second game, written by Igor Barzilai.

To stop this transformation, you must inoculate each of them with a special antidote that you gather throughout the swamp. You don't have a lot of time! Not to mention, the alligators are chasing you as you attempt to gather vials of the antidote! The longer you wait, the more antidote you need to reverse the effects of the Alligator People!

This prototype appears to have been completed and unlike some prototypes that never saw the light of day, this one is quite enjoyable to play!

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Astronomer

Astronomer is a simulation game of sorts that allows the player to get into the shoes of an astronomer and observe stars with the world's largest telescope.

The goal of the game is to aim the telescope beam at a star and observe it throughout the night. This is achieved by filling up an 'observing bar'. However if the astronomer takes pictures of clouds while observing a star, the entire observation will be ruined and the astronomer will have to start over. This can make his or her life difficult as there is only a certain amount of time allocated to this one observer. Once this time is up, the game is over.

Just like in real life, the observer who can do the most with their time will be considered the best, but this will partially rest on some luck. How high of a score can you get?

Astonomer comes with cartridge and full-color manual.

Atom Smasher

A BATTLE TO THE LAST ATOM!

The Atomic Arena is where all sorts of nasty, burly life-forms
come to contest each other in the galaxy's deadliest game!
Armed with a regulation Atom Smasher Blaster, you must
blast unstable atomic particles past your opponent and out of
the arena, but if one hits you, it degrades your very atomic
structure, and the results aren't pretty. But remember,
someone else has the same goal…

This is a head-to-head contest against the computer or another player, and appears to be complete. There's an option for left or right-handed players, and even one to have the computer play itself. The TV Type switch is used to pause a game. This was to be the 1st game under the Video Soft label. but it never saw a release… until now!

Only 100 boxed & numbered copies were produced. This is an 8K cartridge.

Includes box, custom 3-D printed dual-sided cartridge, and manual.

$188.75

Cat Trax is a game originally written for the Emerson Arcadia 2001 by UA Ltd., and apparently slated to be released on the Atari 2600. While it was never commercially released by UA Ltd., it did appear on a European multi-cart under the name Cat N Mouse. It's unknown why this game (and the other UA prototypes) were never released commercially.

Cat Trax includes a professionally printed box, manual and label.

Chase It!

Chase It! is a simple but fun and addicting game. Red squares appear upon the screen, and it is your job to collide with them before your opponent. Some variations of the game have barriers that complicate the race! This 16k game is complete with twenty game variations and a demo mode. The first nine variations are two-player games, and games ten through fifteen are single player challenges. Variations sixteen through twenty are "teddy bear" levels featuring a slower moving handicapped opponent to give younger players an advantage.

This game is graphically representative of early Atari titles, but PLAYS LIKE A DREAM. We have priced this game accordingly as a budget title release. The game is not technically groundbreaking, nor is it fancy, but it is JUST PLAIN FUN!

Only thirty copies manufactured.

Includes box, cartridge, and full-color manual.

As an Ornithologist, you must protect the eggs of the South American Hornbill that are nested in your tree. Various predators attempt to steal the eggs from under your nose. Using your slingshot, you must defend the eggs until the timer runs out. If a predator steals an egg you still have a chance to save it, but you risk losing other eggs from the tree while you are distracted.

Next you must protect the Hornbills that have chosen to nest in the sewers, where the gameplay is the same as the tree level. Finally you move onto a bonus round at the Rooster Ranch, here you must shoot roosters that pop out of windows.

This version of Crack'ed was released at the 2002 Classic Gaming Expo, complete with a unique label, box and instructions.

The year is 2384 and mankind has been exterminated. What started off as a fad in the 1980's known as Pac-Man Fever has evolved and become a cult. The Ghost Overlord known only as Cyplix recognized by his one eye is the center of this new civilization. His monuments are situated on all continents glorifying the greatness that is Cyplix and his Ghost Religion.

You are Pac-Man and your battle starts with the elimination of the Sea-Ghosts. In the sea you will battle new Ghost enemies such as Danny, Quinty, Babo, and Cipa. There are also the three Sea Cy-Ghosts known only as Cpuwiz, Kepone, and Ezzy who religiously guard the Cyplix's captives: E.T., E.T. Junior, and Ms. Pac-Man. They are in suspended animation and you must free them, as they are mankind's only hope in defeating Cyplix and his Ghost Religion.

The year is 2400. After the rescue of E.T., Ms. Pac-Man and E.T. Junior by Pac-Man, Kepone realizes the great lie of Cyplix and his Ghost Religion. Kepone escapes his underwater prison and takes to the skies to work with Pac-Man in helping free the recently imprisoned E.T.. You are Pac-Man and you start by collecting artifacts in the deep ocean which will make a key to free E.T. You will have to avoid genetically engineered creatues such as Oceanic E.T.s and Aqua Pac-Mans while eating any Sea Ghosts you find. Not all the artifacts are in the Sea, so you must enlist Kepone's help in order to retrieve more artifacts from the high skies. But be careful, Cyplix has made a race of Cloud Ms. Pac-Mans that will prevent Kepone from capturing Sanfransiscoitte HSWs otherwise known as Jerome Domurat Clones.Can you save E.T. from his worst fate yet?

$29.75

In Dark Mage, you play the role of a jester banished from your kingdom and your goal is to find and return the king's black rose. As in most text adventures you explore the game world by moving through the four compass directions, find and use items and talk with characters you encounter along the way. This is all accomplished with relative ease through the use of the joystick controller, there's no typing here!

This was originally planned as a pack-in cassette game for Amiga's Power Module peripheral. The game was billed as the 1st "machine-interactive video game“ offering head-to-head play, with one player the submarine commander and the other the destroyer captain. Each player would have had their own screen display and set of commands. The Power Module was dropped in favor of the Power-Play carts, and the game's development only went as far as this version.

The half that exists is the submarine commander part, and is similar to Sea Wolf. The missing half would have been similar to Atari's Depth Charge or Sega's Sub-Scan.

Entity

"What you can't see CAN hurt you!"
Force the Entity to move to the highest possible level of existence, through portals in horizontal barriers that continually keep scrolling down. This must be done as fast as possible to prevent the Entity from being pushed into the vat of liquid helium at the base of the screen.

The joystick controls 2 vertical containment walls. You must move the walls to the edges of the portal. When a wall is in position, it locks in and turns red; when both sides are locked, the Entity will pass through the portal. When you lock the first wall, the Entity will then sense that you are about to trap it, and it also turns red and speeds up. This makes it harder to lock the other side!

Can you avoid the Entity's chilling destruction before running out of energy?

This version of Entity was released at the 2003 Classic Gaming Expo, complete with a unique label, box and instructions.

Gray Games in conjuction with Good Deal Games, brings you one of the most revolutionary modern technologies—known as the e-book--retrograded for the Atari 2600, simply and concisely known as the E.T. Book Cart. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600, the game that some say brought down an industry, is looked at through various means, and is immortalized even further by a cartridge book focused on the game that helped bring about the video game crash. Use your joystick to choose from the chapters you wish to read or the game you wish to play. Go from page to page with ease as you learn more and more about what the world of E.T. is all about.

Table of Contents:
The Wisdom of E.T.
2nd Interview with HSW
Ode to HSW
Secrets of E.T.
E.T.'s Transmission
Alamogordo Landfill 

Hear the Ancient Wisdom of E.T. through various philosophers both past and present from around the world. Read how Howard Scott Warshaw explains E.T. Pit Theory in the follow-up interview to Charles F. Gray's infamous 1st interview of HSW. Read the poem that almost won an E.T. Sweater. E.T. Historian Random Terrain reveals Secrets of the E.T. game and describes how E.T. transcends the Adventure Template. Listen to the actual E.T. signal that E.T. uses to call the mothership. Play the highly addictive game Alamogordo Landfill and help send buried E.T. cartridges back to the future. What are the secrets of E.T.? And is there really an E.T. 2 Prototype in Paris, France?

E.T.: Return to Earth is an unofficial sequel to the infamous 1982 Atari 2600 Video Game "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial."

The E.T. is lonely for friend Elliot. The E.T. not wanting his kind turns to earth and find mars monsters that eat people and make prisoner to Elliot. The E.T. get angry and have to make Elliot safe. WATCH OUT! Mars monsters HUNGRY. Points go high if weapon made and the E.T. make Elliot safe on earth. If Elliot not rescue and time make zero, the E.T. will die too. You be brave. The E.T. must be brave to help friend Elliot and in truth she make earth happy and well.

E.T. having returned to Earth, discovers that Space Invaders have invaded and conquered the Earth. E.T. Knows that he must rescue Elliot and the other Earthlings by making a neutron bomb with Earth technology. Once the neutron bomb is created, E.T. will call his ship, bring the weapon into space and launch it.

Little does E.T. know is that Howard Scott Warshaw has teamed up on the side on the Space Invaders to help them convert the Earth's environment into an environment very much like the Space Invaders home planet. The Space Invaders have promised Howard Scott Warshaw immunity from the I.R.S., worldwide distribution of his books, and rulership over the area of California.

You are E.T.!
Can you defeat the Space Invaders and Howard Scott Warshaw?

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Includes cartridge and a full-color, sixteen page manual.

Explosive Diarrhea

Someone at the Redneck family reunion forgot to check if the clams were any good before serving them. Turns out they weren't. So now everyone has to go to the bathroom. Unfortunately for the Rednecks, they held their family reunion next to a minefield and the outhouse is on the other side of it! How many Rednecks can you guide to the outhouse?

Comes with cartridge and full-color manual.

$44.75

Fall Down includes both two-player and single-player modes against a highly effective computer opponent. Fall Down includes eight game variations!

Compatible with Richard Hutchinson's AtariVox.

$188.75

Funky Fish is a port of the 1981 arcade game by Sun Electronics. It was programmed by UA Ltd., the same company that programmed all the games for the Emerson Arcadia 2001. It's unknown why this game (and the other UA prototypes) was never released commercially.

Funky Fish includes a professionally printed box, manual and label.

$29.75

This cartridge has both NTSC/PAL support built-in!

Kabobber

Control one to nine hopping creatures in unison. They hop in realtime as opposed to turn-based. Hopping on enemies first enables you to add baby creatures to a waiting queue which you can then add to your group at any time with the action button. Baby creatures can only grow to full size by hopping on the green enemies. Anything else will kill them. Alternatively, being hopped on by enemies causes you to lose that specific creature. There are various enemy types including an indestructible boot! The ultimate goal each level is to catch up with the pink creature before it reaches the rainbow finish line at the end.

Kabobber comes in the standard Activision style cartridge case.

You control your kite with lines attached to handles in both of your hands.
Pulling each line makes the kite turn into this direction. Try to collect as many dots as possible and avoid any collision with lightning, the bird and of course the ground. Your kite can take three hits of the lightning or the bird before it crashes. The color of the kite gets darker with every hit.

Programmed by Simon Quernhorst.

$29.75

Mazy Match

This game is fully playable. Originally meant to be released in 1983 by the Taiwanese company Datatech. Features include a 2 player mode and eight difficulty levels.

Walk an invisible path on a randomly generated grid to the top of the screen in order to touch symbols. Be sure to avoid UFO's and bird droppings.

Reaching a plus (+) sign nets you 1000 points and allows you to destroy UFO's by colliding with them. If you can grab the sword, you'll be awarded 500 points and the grid becomes invisible and fully maneuverable. Don't touch the minus (-) sign, or you'll lose 300 points. Be careful, because sometimes paths change position and you will fall off and loose a life.
It is possible to teleport from one vertical path to another. One reaching a symbol, return to the bottom of the screen to get new energy.

$24.75

Each player has their own color.
You have to connect tiles of your color vertically or horizontally.
You can move every tile of every color, this means that you could connect a row of tiles of your opponent's color if you don't move carefully enough.
To prevent deadlock situations you can't undo the last move.
If you complete a row of your stones your opponent will lose energy.
If one player runs out of energy the battle is over.

Includes cartridge and full-color manual.

MissADVENTURE

We don't typically deal with hacks, but this one we found very worthy of a physical release. It is harder and much bigger than the original Adventure game. The catacombs in the cave take a while to figure out, and with over 100 rooms, there are a lot of places to look when searching for a needed object. The dragons have hit points; it takes several tries to kill one and things can get interesting fast with five of them roaming the kingdom.

The randomizing routine in the original version did not separate the objects very well, and there was a screen roll issue when played on original hardware; both of which have been addressed. The room connections have been moved around in an attempt to make the bat and the dragons move more freely about the kingdom. A warp room has been added and the fractured tunnels were changed into a forest to improve mobility. You can tell what forest you are in by the color of the trees. Two rooms have been added - a lake and a pyramid.

The object is to find princess Penelope and bring her back to the Emerald Palace. She is locked away in one of the 3 original castles or the cave. The red key opens the cave, the Emerald Palace, and the red castle. There are 5 dragons. A blue dragon named Bargle is intorduced, as well as a baby dragon named Squeak. Every game is winnable. The keys should not appear randomly in places where you cant get to them. There are no secret rooms beyond the solid lines. There is one room that you can only get into with the bridge. The bat can pick up the original three dragons, but not the other two. Bargle likes to guard the red key. The magnet does not attract the princess, but it will attract the red key. The magnet only works when it is on the screen. Plus more!!

If you accidentally shoot the same type of item twice, you loose that item and the girl's platform drops one notch. If the platform touches the ground, you loose a life. Sometimes a falling item will flash, which means you must shoot it quickly or you will be penalized. Once you have shot each type of item once, you run over and "Pick Up" the girl and take her off the screen.

Next is the hotel screen, where you and the girl enter the hotel and close the blinds. The hotel sign then displays your "score", and level starts over.

Originally designed by 20th Century Fox, Pick-Up was eventually released at the 2002 Classic Gaming Expo, complete with a unique label, box and instructions.

$24.75

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Pleiades is a port of the Centuri arcade game of the same name. It was programmed by UA Ltd., the same company that programmed all the games for the Emerson Arcadia 2001. Pleiades features three unique waves of action and seems to be nearly complete in terms of programming. It's unknown why this game (and the other UA prototypes) was never released commercially.

Pleiades includes a professionally printed box, manual and label.

$188.75

You play the role of Brian Mareck, who must deactivate a computer that has run amuck! This new super computer, designed by your father, was created to help mankind with its instantaneous computing abilities. But something went catastrophically wrong when your father switched the machine on and now you must run through level after level of the giant laboratory and deactivate all the energy pills before it's too late! While doing this, you must avoid the robots, who have been programmed by the computer to protect it at all costs!

Includes BOX, cartridge and manual.

Comes with cartridge and full-color manual.

Pro Bowling

Larry Kaplan's Bowling game for the VCS in 1979 was good for the time, but this new 2019 release will really bowl you over!

Pro Golf

Compare the new Pro Golf to Atari's own 1980 original and be blown away by the difference. This new rendition is programmed from the ground up and utilizes 16k to bring you a realistic 18-hole golf simulation.

Limited to only 50 Boxed copies.
Premiering at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo (PRGE) October, 2019.

Comes with cartridge, Box, Score Card, printed Golf Tee stating "Atari Pro Golf", and a 16-page full-color manual.

Root Beer Pong

The popular game of Beer Pong with a the root bark of the sassafras tree and some sarsaparilla added for good measure. Despite the lack of alcohol, you can play with or without an "impairment". Can you aim and bounce the balls into the cups before your opponent?



Limited to only 20 copies. This is a two-player game.
Originally meant to premiere at CORGS CON 2020 (canceled due to COVID19)

$244.75
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S.A.C. Alert

You're guiding your plane through a routine surveillance mission when suddenly, you're surrounded by enemy bombers and fighters. But they've seen you first. And you'd better think fast. You squeeze off a few rounds, just to let them know it isn't going to be easy. You pull back hard on the
stick, and head straight for the sky. It's not going to be easy for you either...

This was originally planned to be a cassette game for Amiga's Power Module peripheral, and is one of the games designed for use with The Joyboard controller. It was later planned to be 1 of 4 games on Power Play Arcade cart #5. According to a press kit, this was to be a 1st-person flying simulation with a true "through the cockpit“ viewpoint and featuring both land and sea game variations. The game appears to be complete.

Only 100 boxed & numbered copies were produced. This is an 4K cartridge.

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You control a submarine whose mission is to protect the whales at the bottom of the screen from the whaling ship at the top of the screen. Harpoons and nets are thrown down at the whales and you must shoot them before they hit the whales or your submarine. You can take five hits before the game is over and all the whales die.

Originally designed by 20th Century Fox, Save the Whales was eventually released at the 2002 Classic Gaming Expo, complete with a unique label, box and instructions.

$59.75

Sea Battle was finished at M Network in the 1980’s, but never released. In 2000, Intellivision Productions released this game complete with a simple box and manual. Sea Battle is the Atari 2600 version of the Intellivision game of the same name. At one point it was called High Seas, which was consistent with M Network’s policy of changing the name of a game when it appeared on a different system.

This release of Sea Battle includes a full-color, M Network style manual created by Dale Crum.

$29.75

Skeleton+ offers: Life and kill counters, new undead locator to help track skeletons, five vs ten Skeletons per level (selectable), various difficulty settings and more.

If your Atari 2600 has been modified for stereo output,
Skeleton+ takes advantage of this to help you locate Skeletons in the maze!

$148.75

Includes cartridge, manual, and plastic case.

StripOff!

Programmed deep beneath the surface in the Homebrew Heaven underground lab, this is a Good Deal Games EXCLUSIVE release!

StripOff! premiered at VGXPO on Oct. 10th, 2010.

Score points by killing the alien ships. The game ends when all of your barrier blocks have been stripped away by the invading aliens. The alien doubles in speed when your barrier is reduced to 10 barrier chunks. Barrier gets replenished every thirty alien kills. Download complete instructions.

Sunset Drive

This is the world's first Atari game featuring a high resolution 96x96 scrolling bitmap. It uses just about every VCS trick in the book from bank indexing to interlacing and even flicker display to achieve the first game of its kind on the Atari 2600 console!

You are the Candyman and you have just found out your girlfriend is a user. You are sitting in a dive bar infamously known as Lusters located on the mean streets of Edmonton, Alberta. You look around the smokey bar and see users, losers, and chain-smoking boozers. You finish off your beer and it leaves a bitter taste in your mouth. It is like you are looking at a room of living corpses who don't know they are dead yet. You get up to leave, and a random gal asks, "Hey babe, can I catch a lift?" You smile, shake your head and answer, "I don't look back." As you leave Lusters, you just can't wait to get back to the country. You get in your old and rusty F-150 Pick-Up Truck and drive into the country. You feel the gritty road beneath you as your tires crunch over the gravel road. Wind flies through your hair as the AM station plays a familiar song. You are going too fast, but you don't care. "Death makes angels of us all...", you remember. You just need to clear your mind. The sun is setting, so what a better time to go on a Sunset Drive.

You will encounter all sorts of crazy things on the lonely country road. The longer distance you drive, the more CANDY you will get as indicated by your CANDY COUNTER. Remember how much you like giving CANDY to the waitresses at the bar, so drive well. You will find GAS CANS that will give you fuel so that you may continue your wild drive and fuel your TRUCK and lawnmower. There are SLEAZY HITCHHIKERS who want to catch a ride, but look out, they will rob you of all your CANDY and slow you down. Beware of those tempting BOTTLES OF BEER. They will get you drunk and you will lose 1 CANDY for each BOTTLE OF BEER you drink. Also, BOTTLES OF BEER can slow you down, if you drink too much. Even if you are wasted, please stay on the ROAD. If you drive on the GRASS, you will use up more fuel. So keep on truckin'. You are the CANDYMAN.

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$59.75

Swordfight was finished at M Network in the 1980's, but never released. In 2000, Intellivision Productions released this game complete with a simple box and manual. Swordfight requires two players, which is possibly why the game was not released in the first place.

This release of Swordfight includes a full-color, M Network style manual created by Dale Crum.

$29.75

$27.75

The Realm of No!

A great evil has overtaken the upper and lower kingdoms in the land of Wynnick. Reports of strange creatures both beautiful and horrific roam the lands. The tyrant ruler King Bill has twisted the land to meet his own wicked ends. You have been summoned by Prince Kori of the under kingdom to defeat King Bill and rid the upper kingdom of this horrible curse.

As a tribute to both role playing games of the 1980's and text adventure games for the Timex Sinclair 1000, The Realm of No! succeeds in both regards. With the exciting adventure of fantasy role playing games mixed with the gritty feel of a black and white Timex Sinclair 1000 dream, enter into the horrifying Realm of No!. We dare you!

Originally written and submitted in 1985 by a writer using the pen name Kim Ryan, The  Realm of No! started out as a 10 copy module submission to a well known publisher of role playing game modules. This module was never published, and never returned to the author, but somehow the 10 copies made it into private collections. Over the years, various The Realm of No! modules would be discovered or rediscovered. Considered vastly unpopular my many modern role-playing historians, people still seemed to be fascinated by the history of the module and the strangeness of the module itself.

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$29.75

$188.75

Joe Grand's Ultra SCSIcide is packaged with a 12 page, full-color manual, within an anti-static bag in keeping with the hard drive theme of the game.

Wedding Cart

Customers have been requesting this for years. While it may be odd that anyone would want a cartridge that contains a cartridge that displays a wedding photo of my wife and myself, it is a technical achievement that hasn't been surpassed. The Custom Image Cart/Memory Cart has a long documented history. Here goes...

Back in the late 90's, Greg Zumwalt came up with a code to produce Image Carts © that used a stretch 32x24 image. It wasn't very nice but it was a start and it led to the creation of the Photo Carts © from 2002-2008. These Photo Carts included improved color palettes and resolution now at 48x64 pixels. Davies and Rideout vastly improved upon the code while Greg took some time away and created multibank versions that basically created animated GIF's. Upon returning to the scene, Greg began work on increasing color display, and following the works of several others, he was able to produce my own 460 colour palette display. YES, on the Atari 2600!

While all very impressive, especially for the Atari 2600, they all lack one major aspect, they are nothing more than demos with no interactive function. In short, they are not games. Another major setback is that these all require special chips, SuperCart or TigerVision, to work and that translates into increased costs. So much so that most of these were released in ROM format only. Greg decided to start anew. Greg would create a high resolution multi-colour display that is interactive and works in an 8K chip. His first successful demo is Luna. It is simple, in display, not code, but worked, if not a little buggy. It is only a single layer B&W with vertical scrolling and a single sprite that moves horizontally.

Over the months, Greg improved upon the code and was able to produce a 96x140 display. But now Greg was back to the issue of no room left to do anything more.

It was at this point in time Greg was able to juggle around some code and came up with a 4K demo! Not very stable, overscan issues, but heading in the right direction. In 2008, Greg worked on Gray Games releases such as the Tron Guy Picture Cart and the Digital Photo Album which shows a series of pictures at intervals. Unfortunately, these releases were expensive to make utilizing customized Tigervision boards and expensive board components to make these work on an Atari 2600.

http://www.atari2600homebrew.com/tron-guy-picture-cart.html
http://www.atari2600homebrew.com/digital-photo-album.html

In 2014, interest was renewed due to Michael Thomasson's (of Good Deal Games) wish to have his wedding photo to be digitized on the Atari 2600. Charles F. Gray of Gray Games felt it was possible to improve the image, so Greg went back to 8K and corrected a number of bugs including that ever troublesome overscan. The result, a clean steady 96x70 high-res 64 colour image with just enough code left to have some fun. Back in 1995, Michael Thomasson attended a Mardi Gras party and was meeting his friend Steve Seng. Steve was running late and she was the only person that Michael recognized. He went up to her and fumbled out something like, "I know that your name is "something-Ann." and she corrected him that it was JoAnn and not "SomethingAnn." It wasn't until a few hours later when Michael was leaving that she ran up to him and demanded that Michael dance with her before he left, saying something like, "Aren't you going to dance with me before you leave?" Her mother and friend Barbara were visiting KY from Buffalo and told her mum that she would eventually marry Michael that very evening... and they did three years later on May 30th, 1998.

Michael was recently quoted as saying, "We make a good team. But living with me, "Everyday is like Christmas!" so she has it easy. Seriously, we are both very flexible individuals and generally very positive thinking people. Like all couples, we've had our share of misfortune but we prop each other up and there for each other when either of us is in need. Videogames have been a large portion of our time together. While JoAnn is more of a casual player, she religiously went garage sale hunting and flea markets with me every weekend, scoured the Sunday newspaper scouring for deals and would accompany me during the early dawn waiting for store doors to open to nab a deal. We'd hit the store racks as partners with a plan of action and then more time together cleaning and organizing the treasures we found on our endeavors. We've boxed up orders together and she has made more trips to the postal service to mail out boxes full of games more times than I can count. So, our relationship isn't based on games, but a grand amount of time together over the last several decades included them in one manner or another and more than just sitting on the couch cuddled together pressing buttons."

In the future of 2014, Charles and Greg both knew that the code had to be better. More detail and a larger size in the images had to be realized. The pixel had to be made smaller or somehow cut apart. Michael's 1998 Wedding Picture began to be worked on again. As Greg coded, Charles researched and came up with the following:

Hi Greg, you are utilizing what is now known as a Zumwalt Pixel. This was copyrighted under the Artistic Copyright of 2014. To my knowledge no one has ever even theorized a smaller pixel, much less has created one for the Atari 2600. I've theorized a smaller pixel "Gray Pixel" and even a smaller one "Thomasson Pixel" after that. I think the Gray Pixel can be done. Any deeper then you will destroy reality as we know it.

1/4 of a bit using 16 Zumwalt Pixels

1/8th of a bit using 32 Gray Pixels -theoretical but possible

1/16th of a bit using 64 Thomasson Pixels
-entirely theoretical
-deals with string theory itself.

This is what could happen ;)

Bang bang. Bang bang. Bang bang. There it was again. Greg woke up from his dream. His mind clouded with horrible images at the sub-atomic level.

If you keep going deeper and deeper, you said it can look ugly, something which I have not seen. But then you can go deeper and deeper into the subatomic layers and deeper still. Then you hit the bottom. It is there but almost to the depths of what holds reality together itself.

At the bottom of the code, you see an image, crystal clear. You see your landlord which half a bottle of whisky and a thawed bowl of ice cream. The image starts to move and you can actually hear sound. "Greg, get that damn furnace started. My bitch sister left the damn door open again." Suddenly you see the contents of his room melting and then he begins to melt, then everything on the screen begins to melt, then your laptop begins to melt. You've broken through the last barrier between fiction and reality. Hours later in outer space the Earth melts in upon itself. The a few hours after than the entire universe and all existence melts into one single square pixel. the camera zooms back and the entire area is white except for one tiny black pixel. Greg has destroyed reality. -- Charles

Greg made more advancements with the code, far beyond even what Charles or Michael expected out of a machine built in 1977. Charles needed something that still worked with standard boards and standard chips. This meant no Tigervision, no Sara, and no Custom Boards. Greg had this to say in early 2015:

I am working at the sub-pixel level! In terms of physics, I am working at 1/4 of a bit using 16 sub-pixels per screen pixel and 8 pixels per row that may be interlaced with 8 or 16 more for colour. Hell, Nolan never even thought it was possible.

The alphas/betas and Michael's came in at the end of 2014. All version 4+ are 2015.

In programming, you go from WORDS (too smart for the Atari) to BYTES (machine code) to BITS (1's and 0's) to NIBBLES (fractional BITS). That is the level I am working at. Lower than that an you are into FLAVORS (atomic particles) that require a special Neutron laser to move electrons around. This is what was used to write the entire content of the Encyclopedia Britannica on the head of a pin. It cost $2.8 million. I don't see any Atari enthusiasts paying that much for a new game. Although, it would make for one hell of a huge Twisterplot.

Again though, fractional pixelization code has been explored before. I've just taken it a step further, like my code was advanced by others, and round and round it goes.

I am already using pixel sizes that are 1/32 of the original and only 4 times larger than modern computers. The real issues are scanline timing which is CRT technology; Lack of vertical colouring which must be done in a very tricky fashion; And space within the banks. The smaller the pixels, the better the resolution, but the more data is required to fill the same space. Take 10 large balls, place them into a box. Take 100 small balls and place them into the same box. You are still only filling the box, but it takes a lot more balls This is why my newest image cart code now requires 16Kb.

Like Michael and JoAnn's amazing marriage, the image technology is better than ever. in 2015 the image software was expanded, tweaked and refined to create a defined digital image which will display using an Atari 2600. The Wedding Image now uses 8k and looks fantastic. Any picture can be put onto one of these Custom Image Carts. These are about capturing a specific and important moment in time on an Atari 2600 cartridge.

$44.75
for the SET

Wisconson Political 2-Pack:
MacIver and Balloon Protest

Programmed deep beneath the surface in the Homebrew Heaven underground lab, these are Good Deal Games EXCLUSIVE releases!

One game features the Wisconsin union protestors
and one based on the RESPONSE to the Wisconsin union protestors.

Cartridge 1: MacIver

The story... The game author works for a think tank in Madison, called MacIver, and during the major protests this year they were taking pictures and documenting it. There were some real screwballs that didn't like them hanging around. There were zombie protesters that interrupted a ceremony for the special olympics, a guy on a segway who staged disruptions during committee meetings, and finally there was this guy in a pink dress who chased their intern around the Capitol for taking pictures. That's where the idea for this game came from.

Cartridge 2: Balloon Protest

During the Madison protests this year, protesters started bringing heart shaped balloons into the Capitol and releasing them in the rotunda. Their goal was to fill up the dome with these balloons. One day a staffer, who was going crazy from the months of protest chanting and singing in the building, snapped. He grabbed a letter opener and tried to pop these balloons. So in the game, you try to navigate heart shaped balloons up into the Capitol dome, while dodging the enraged staffer.

Wizard

The player plays as a wizard from Irata (Atari spelled backwards) and battles Imps. It takes place in a maze , but it's not a symmetric battle: the player is faster than the enemy, but the enemy can go through walls and fire faster than the player can.

Wizard was innovative in several ways. There was no need to aim, as the angle of the player's fire was automatically sent in the direction of the player's enemy. The enemy remained invisible when it was behind a wall, making it one of the first games to implement a line-of-sight algorithm. It also had a very realistic (for the time) heart beat, which would become louder as the player got closer to the enemy.